Video: So much better than your bog standard BBQ rat! New rodent menu wows customers

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Video: So much better than your bog standard BBQ rat! New rodent menu wows customers

 

 

A roadside rat seller in the north east of Thailand said she and her husband were selling 3,000 baht's worth of rodents a day after they hit on a new cooking technique. 

 

Rather than just barbecuing the field rats Jiraporn Thipnet and her other half have started selling "Noo Naa Ob Ong" or  Field Rat Baked in Earthenware Jar. 

 

They suspend the rodents above charcoal. This creates a lovely, delicate yellow/brown flesh that is absolutely delicious.

 

It knocks spots off the BBQ variety that can be found on many roadside stalls in Thailand. 

 

 

The couple's customers agree. Jiraporn used to sell her BBQ rats for 80-100 baht each at the stall on the Ratchasima to Kabinburi Road (Route 304) in Korat. 

 

Now she is charging 130, 150, 180 depending on the size of the rat. 

 

And they are turning over 3,000 baht in a single day. 

 

If you smell a rat about this story, you are heading in the right direction for lunch......

 

Source: TNA-MCOT

 

 

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[Enoon]

 

"they hit on a new cooking technique."

 

Previously known, for 1000's of years, as Oven Baking.

 

But invented for you, in the Thai media, yesterday.

 

It's a different technique.

 

 

[Liverpudlian]

They actualy taste quite good as they normaly cook em.

[sweatalot]

Best to eat them raw

my python said

[jaiyen]

These field rats are extremely tasty !  Just try them, but make sure they are freshly cooked. Better than beef. full of flavour. Remember they only eat rice and a few insects in the fields.

[tifino]

... and here am I, always wondering why there's never been a Mouse Flavoured Catfood?  

 

[Scouse123]

YUK,

 

Stomach turning and disgusting.

 

New menu for those cutting back on food to keep money in the bank for retirement extensions!

[Jane Dough]

17 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

YUK,

 

Stomach turning and disgusting.

 

New menu for those cutting back on food to keep money in the bank for retirement extensions!

Interesting. Liverpudlian loves 'em and you hate 'em. Were you born on either side of the Mersey?

 

Rooster

 

 

[hkt83100]

In Belgium it would be a water-rabbit.

[tifino]

down over the border, there is 'paddy chicken'

"needip croak needip"

[GreasyFingers]

The FIL is having a lot of success catching them lately after the rice harvest and has also had a bonus of a couple of mongoose. The Thai kitchen stinks when he burns the fur off.

[Sticky Wicket]

There's more meat on a ladyboy's c0ck......................allegedly !

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, Scouse123 said:

New menu for those cutting back on food to keep money in the bank for retirement extensions!

130-180 baht apiece, sounds exensive to me.

[cornishcarlos]

Looks like we stumbled upon a revolutionary way to cook chicken down here in the south then !!

 

 

[wgdanson]

5 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

Looks like we stumbled upon a revolutionary way to cook chicken down here in the south then !!

 

 

Looks like an Indian tandoori oven.

[cornishcarlos]

1 minute ago, wgdanson said:

Looks like an Indian tandoori oven.

 

Pretty much.. Just a big clay pot with a lid.. Does taste better than grilled though !!

 

 

[DrPhibes]

Yup, remember 14 yrs ago sitting in the northeast at the edge of the village eating "Weed rat, rotisserie style" along with stir fried crickets (while drinking some hooch a local made out of rice in a plastic cooler) with some very friendly people under a seriously star studded sky with the wafting scent of rice about to be harvested.  Magical.

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

If you smell a rat about this story, you are heading in the right direction for lunch......

Not me I'll be heading in the opposite direction.

[NiwPix]

I wouldnt mind eating / trying the field rats. But how can I trust it is a field rat and not a city rat?

[Elkski]

I tried  rat but it was in a stew.  Buying the rat at a roadside stand like scoring a kilo. Then watching  the lady make as fire to burn off the hair rat still intact.  I had issue when I had chunks of tail bone in my spoon.  That looks similar to a bbq smoker.  I wish more street food was cooked in a closed slow smoking method where the smoke permeates the meat I think there is a big growth potential for slow smoked pork and chicken and I guess rat.  I also offer to help the cook cut up a chicken at a school cafeteria one time. But like an American as I was about to throw away the viscera I was scolded with such dread.   I don't know why they like to keep some of those intestines to cook?

[NCC1701A]

my cat wants to do Grab for some rat. 

[Damrongsak]

7 hours ago, tifino said:

... and here am I, always wondering why there's never been a Mouse Flavoured Catfood?  

 

Because they prefer butt-flavored food.

 

 

[Mario666]

20 hours ago, Jane Dough said:

Interesting. Liverpudlian loves 'em and you hate 'em. Were you born on either side of the Mersey?

 

Rooster

 

 

 

When The Scousers come to play at Old Trafford the Stretford End sing this song:

 

Sung to the tune of In My Liverpool Home

 

In your Liverpool slums,
In your Liverpool slums,
You look in the dustbin for something to eat,
You find a dead rat and you think it's a treat,
In your Liverpool slums

In your Liverpool slums,

In your Liverpool slums,
Your mom's on the game your dad's in the nick,
You can't get a job cause you're so f**king thick,

In your Liverpool slums

No offence! Just an observation!

 

 

[Jane Dough]

7 minutes ago, Mario666 said:

 

When The Scousers come to play at Old Trafford the Stretford End sing this song:

 

Sung to the tune of In My Liverpool Home

 

In your Liverpool slums,
In your Liverpool slums,
You look in the dustbin for something to eat,
You find a dead rat and you think it's a treat,
In your Liverpool slums

In your Liverpool slums,

In your Liverpool slums,
Your mom's on the game your dad's in the nick,
You can't get a job cause you're so f**king thick,

In your Liverpool slums

No offence! Just an observation!

 

 

At Tottenham we sang a version in relation to other teams, especially Woolwich. 

 

Offence was always intended!

 

Rooster

 

 

[Nyezhov]

20 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

There's more meat on a ladyboy's c0ck......................allegedly !

You are a brave man.

[cornishcarlos]

16 hours ago, NiwPix said:

I wouldnt mind eating / trying the field rats. But how can I trust it is a field rat and not a city rat?

 

No briefcase