5 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

I'm not a big fan of rats on the menu.

 

Rabbit,s that's where i waiting for.

But I've been waiting for that for years.

I told my Mrs I used to eat rabbit stew when I was younger and she looked at me with abject horror.

 

Now, anytime an animal is shown on TV she asks me if I have eaten it. I just continuously say yes to wind her up.

 

Yesterday, the baby hippopotamus was on TV (Moo Deng). She looked at me and I started licking my lips and saying 'aroi, aroi '. She punched me in the face.

5 hours ago, radiochaser said:

How did they taste?   Was the meat removed from the bone before you tried to eat them or did you eat the meat off the bone?    Have you ever eaten squirrel?   If so, how did the, assuming ground rat, compare squirrels, the tree rats?

Spatchcocked and very similar to squirrel. I've also unknowingly eaten 'noo noo ' (which I believe is mouse) Larb. It was delicious until they told me what it was. Tiny little bones which they told me were it's ears.

1 minute ago, Keeps said:

I told my Mrs I used to eat rabbit stew when I was younger and she looked at me with abject horror.

 

Now, anytime an animal is shown on TV she asks me if I have eaten it. I just continuously say yes to wind her up.

 

Yesterday, the baby hippopotamus was on TV (Moo Deng). She looked at me and I started licking my lips and saying 'aroi, aroi '. She punched me in the face.

Nothing wrong with rabbit cacciatore 

7 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

We would call what you are talking about, Field Mice.

No, we wouldn't, field mice are mice, rice field rats are rats.  Two different species.

5 hours ago, radiochaser said:

How did they taste?   Was the meat removed from the bone before you tried to eat them or did you eat the meat off the bone?    Have you ever eaten squirrel?   If so, how did the, assuming ground rat, compare squirrels, the tree rats?

In pad krapao they taste just like whatever you're told it is.  

7 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Nothing wrong with rabbit cacciatore 

Very cheap cut of meat when I was a lad. Very lean and healthy too. Butcher's always had plenty hanging up in the window.

6 minutes ago, Keeps said:

Very cheap cut of meat when I was a lad. Very lean and healthy too. Butcher's always had plenty hanging up in the window.

Verry hard to find this days only a few butchers have it now

When I lived in Bangkok I regularly shopped at Klong Toei market for fruit. Occassionally, I would see live rats on top of the fruit display tables. Huge ones, like you would need a broom to shoo them off huge.

 

I had one glare at me as I walked by ontop of the oranges. Some are not very afraid of people. They are used to people walking around.

 

To this very day I still wash all the fruit, even ones with skins. They may come from Bangkok where those wholesale markets are and the rats live.

 

I also stopped liking chicken after seeing them in cages there...

1 hour ago, Keeps said:

I told my Mrs I used to eat rabbit stew when I was younger and she looked at me with abject horror.

 

Now, anytime an animal is shown on TV she asks me if I have eaten it. I just continuously say yes to wind her up.

 

Yesterday, the baby hippopotamus was on TV (Moo Deng). She looked at me and I started licking my lips and saying 'aroi, aroi '. She punched me in the face.

I had a similar experience in a Thai language class. There was a Chinese girl and a Korean girl. When I opened up about eating rabbit stew they looked at me with utter disdain. They only saw them as pets.

17 minutes ago, bradiston said:

I had a similar experience in a Thai language class. There was a Chinese girl and a Korean girl. When I opened up about eating rabbit stew they looked at me with utter disdain. They only saw them as pets.

Ironic really, compared to some of the stuff they will eat without giving it a second thought.

9 hours ago, Classic Ray said:

Yes, the field rats are the ones you can buy two to a bag at the roadside. They have had a healthy diet, not like the sewer rats that no one eats.

Same goes to pigeons. We used to hunt and cook ones fed at the local mill. Tasted like chicken but more tender.  

11 hours ago, Keeps said:

I told my Mrs I used to eat rabbit stew when I was younger and she looked at me with abject horror.

We had a pet rabbit when I  was a kid, and I found out it was fed to us in a pie after it nearly gnawed off my brother's finger. 

On 11/6/2024 at 5:39 PM, Michael196055 said:

Staying in Pattaya now for a month and not sure if this is the place to 
pick for my retirement,
A dead rate at the entrance of the market, next almost being hit by a motor bike INSIDE the market.
And the roaring, thundering noise of scooters and BIG motorbikes all around Pattaya is scaring me ever time when they pass me with high speed, is deafening and annoying.
In the late afternoon or early evening, it is not enjoyable walking alongside the beach road at Jomtien.

You have to either acclimatise especially if your consideratiing retirement to Pattaya or find another place ,maybe Isaan area?

 

You won't adjust so just visit for the time bring until you get used to noise , motorbike,music etc 

12 hours ago, Keeps said:

Very cheap cut of meat when I was a lad. Very lean and healthy too. Butcher's always had plenty hanging up in the window.

 

Used to go out Ferreting and shooting with my father as a young man.

Became a dab hand at skinning them.

Best was to soak it in a salted water over night before cooking.

Loved the taste. 

Isn't roadkill popular in some countries? 

22 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

I'm not a big fan of rats on the menu.

 

Rabbit,s that's where i waiting for.

But I've been waiting for that for years.

There was an Austrian restaurant on Samui that served rabbits

21 hours ago, radiochaser said:

How did they taste?   Was the meat removed from the bone before you tried to eat them or did you eat the meat off the bone?    Have you ever eaten squirrel?   If so, how did the, assuming ground rat, compare squirrels, the tree rats?

BBQ, the ribs was so tiny that you eat the bones. Crunchy

On 11/6/2024 at 1:39 PM, Michael196055 said:

Staying in Pattaya now for a month and not sure if this is the place to 
pick for my retirement,

how can any of this be a surprise to you if you have gotten to the point of considering retiring here? 

46 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Isn't roadkill popular in some countries? 

its fine if you call it bush meat.

5 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

There was an Austrian restaurant on Samui that served rabbits

There was.... however I don't live on Samui.

Unfortunately.

 

 

 

A few years back, whilst I was working in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, there was an article in the Times of India regarding a gentleman who was served his vegetarian lunch on an Indian Railways train.

 

He apparently found some rat in his curry.

 

Of course, he complained, but his complaint wasn't that there was rat in his curry but that his curry wasn't vegetarian!! 

 

I did actually enjoy working in India and retain many Indian friends.

 

On 11/7/2024 at 12:36 PM, Scouse123 said:

We would call what you are talking about, Field Mice.

 

Hell of a difference.

especially in the size

5 hours ago, Purdey said:

Isn't roadkill popular in some countries? 

Yes. There are restaurant signs in US South; "You Kill - We Grill"

 

Eating rat meat is very "Baan Nock", as is eating frogs. Some proper out in the sticks, money very tight business. It is not commonplace. 

Not long ago saw docu about New York, there are more rats then humans in the city and they just walk around everywhere. They are alive, well if not getting shot with a bb gun as New Yorkers accepted the challenge, shooting them. 

Just one dead rat in Pattaya, cmon

Everything gets gobbled up in these parts. Rats, flies, dogs, crickets, snake, lizards. I've tried them all.

 

Dog is over-rated IMO. Although it depends how they are cooked obviously. Some bugs are lovely and compliment a glass of lao khow perfectly. Some snake is delicious. As are those green and red lizards. Caught a 2.4 mere long snake at the farm. Kept us in food for a couple of days.

 

What I don'r like one little bit, are those little chicks cooked in their shell. Crack the egg and find a tiny chicken. Horrible.

 

 

On 11/7/2024 at 6:34 AM, Scouse123 said:

 

Please tell us where rat meat is so widely eaten across Asia?

 

Apart from Cambodia when it was having a really tough time, I don't know of anywhere TBH

 

Rural Vietnam

 

 

1 hour ago, owl sees all said:

Dog is over-rated IMO. Although it depends how they are cooked obviously.

Back in 80s Korean dude treated us with huge "kazan" of stew made from local mutt. The secret was overnight marinating. Nothing special though, just like a lamb. 

On 11/7/2024 at 7:53 AM, Keeps said:

Spatchcocked and very similar to squirrel. I've also unknowingly eaten 'noo noo ' (which I believe is mouse) Larb. It was delicious until they told me what it was. Tiny little bones which they told me were it's ears.

That's kind of what I thought it would taste like.  A little different due to what food the ground rats ate vs. what squirrels eat.  I have never eaten ground rats nor noo noo.   I believe I would only have a problem with the tiny bones and whatever herbs (and their taste) used in the cooking.   Less so now than when I was younger, when I would eat most anything placed in front of me.