"Different" Thai foods you have eaten!

[Chittychangchang]

I'll start,

The fil caught a cobra snake near Phetchabun airport and brought it home for dinner.

He chopped and skinned it like a master butcher and offered me the still beating heart to swallow!

I can safely say that this experience is the closest a man can get to feeling pregnant(the beating heart in the belly)

What different foods have you eaten in Thailand?

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[Puyai]

I don't think anyone is going to be able to beat a beating cobra heart in their stomach! Just the usual for me, crickets, ants, intestines, frogs, rotten fish, congealed blood, COOKED hearts, had a go at rat, although really struggled to get it down!

Not really that different, pretty boring really!!

[krisb]

Tuna sandwiches from 7/11.

Do they count?

[Ajaan]

If you can find a restaurant that specializes in, or at least serves, "forest food" (อาหารป่า), go for it! One of the most interesting facets of Thai cuisine...and you get to try different kinds of deer, wild boar, ostrich...great stuff. In the provinces, everyone eats it, it's just rare to find it in restaurants!

[CharlieH]

Talking of Phetchabun, go up to the resevoir, there is a restaurant there that serves glass like prawns (clear) when the dish is served it has a clear dome over it, because the prawns are still jumping around on the plate and you eat them live! Delicious apparently, but I prefer to eat things after they are dead!

Edited September 8, 2013 by CharlieH

[wayned]

Tuna sandwiches from 7/11.

Do they count?

How long did you stay in the hospital after you finished it?

[krisb]

Tuna sandwiches from 7/11.

Do they count?

 

How long did you stay in the hospital after you finished it?

It was the shredded pork sandwich that did that.

[geriatrickid]

Ahh so this is how the foreign residents become infested with parasites. Sometimes I have wondered how a westerner would become host to some of the Thai protozoa and worms, but now I understand.

[rct99q]

Talking of Phetchabun, go up to the resevoir, there is a restaurant there that serves glass like prawns (clear) when the dish is served it has a clear dome over it, because the prawns are still jumping around on the plate and you eat them live! Delicious apparently, but I prefer to eat things after they are dead!

Gung Dten (goong ten) or "dancing shrimp" very common and very popular in the Thai/Laos (isaan) cooking.

[rct99q]

The cobra heart thingy have never heard of....good on ya for eating it.

Last night the in laws prepared Laab Gop Glua (minced field frog in blood). I watched in awe as the mil bashed the skulls in of the frogs first, skinned, gutted and de-boned (most still alive) them, threw them in her mortar and pestle, and crushed them up with herbs and spices then passed me a dish with some khao niao to taste!

Really is too bad they have not invented a way to pass on smells via the internet.......of my crap this morning after eating this sh&t last night.....

[longstebe]

Gecko (which I had to kill myself) and dog.

Won't be going out my way to eat them again, that's for sure.

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[TheSpade]

If you can find a restaurant that specializes in, or at least serves, "forest food" (อาหารป่า), go for it! One of the most interesting facets of Thai cuisine...and you get to try different kinds of deer, wild boar, ostrich...great stuff. In the provinces, everyone eats it, it's just rare to find it in restaurants!

I know of a few bars / restaurants in BKK that serve ostrich and venison and I love to eat it as it's such a change from pork and chicken.

[Phronesis]

Humble pie...

[Somchai Mao]

Talking of Phetchabun, go up to the resevoir, there is a restaurant there that serves glass like prawns (clear) when the dish is served it has a clear dome over it, because the prawns are still jumping around on the plate and you eat them live! Delicious apparently, but I prefer to eat things after they are dead!

I've had them a few times. From what I've seen the dome is also used for when you turn the bowl upside down to give it a shake. It stuns or kills the prawns so they don't flip about all over the place. I find them pretty tasteless but the stuff they put on them is very nice, lemony, spicy, salty.

I've also had those pointless sugar sandwiches from 7/11 when well oiled.

[cooked]

Cow sh** soup? (true) Bile soup? Blood soup? How about placenta? Tried it all, very good, but won't go there again. I refuse to eat little birds, frogs, strange snails and insects (although I have tried them all). Rats? Can be good, but only if they are prepared properly, some people just chop it all up, meaning all, and eat it. They actually like it.

[irishsmile]

[quote name="krisb" post...Tuna sandwiches from 7/11.

Do they count?

Hahahaha!!! Best answer I've heard here for a long long time!! Brilliant wit!!

[Chittychangchang]

The wife put ant eggs in a curry and told me after i'd eaten them

Heard about that bbq rat, wouldn't want to try that(no matter how much chilli and garlic was on it.

This vid is ok if you have 42 mins to spare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F--9epsUtBE

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[chuang]

Talking of Phetchabun, go up to the resevoir, there is a restaurant there that serves glass like prawns (clear) when the dish is served it has a clear dome over it, because the prawns are still jumping around on the plate and you eat them live! Delicious apparently, but I prefer to eat things after they are dead!

Kung Teang....aroy.

[AdamBangkok]

Ahh so this is how the foreign residents become infested with parasites. Sometimes I have wondered how a westerner would become host to some of the Thai protozoa and worms, but now I understand.

either that or a couple of hours on Walking Street.

[khunsuar]

Fried bamboo worm larvae with Mekong at 8 am..that did it for me.

[AlexRRR]

My god what an array of cuisine, your all so brave.......the most adventurous thing I have ever eaten in Thailand is a 7/11 chicken burger (I think it was chicken) at midnight coming home after a night out, I had had a few but it didn't help, one bite and in the bin.

[Chittychangchang]

My god what an array of cuisine, your all so brave.......the most adventurous thing I have ever eaten in Thailand is a 7/11 chicken burger (I think it was chicken) at midnight coming home after a night out, I had had a few but it didn't help, one bite and in the bin.

Try the deep fried Tarantula or Scorpians with soya sauce, not an unpleasant experience.

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[Mossfinn]

Talking of Phetchabun, go up to the resevoir, there is a restaurant there that serves glass like prawns (clear) when the dish is served it has a clear dome over it, because the prawns are still jumping around on the plate and you eat them live! Delicious apparently, but I prefer to eat things after they are dead!

Having lunch beside the Moon river, I am asked whether I would like to try the fresh shrimp salad, I have a look and say, I think something is still moving. " of course it is still moving, it's dancing shrimp, fresh shrimp salad", I kindly declined.

[sustento]

Dog curry and rat curry. The rat was ok but the dog was a bit strong.

[rsokolowski]

Fried chicken feet, not something I would pay for again.

[bunnydrops]

The ants are OK but I can't get my mouth to open for those mushy pasty cooked ant eggs. Chicken feet-- I came home from school when I was around 17 with some friends. Came in for dinner to see a big bowl of boiled chicken feet and unlayed eggs ( from butchered chickens). My mother got a hankering for some old southern cooking-- My friends decided to pass on dinner.

[Chittychangchang]

The ants are OK but I can't get my mouth to open for those mushy pasty cooked ant eggs. Chicken feet-- I came home from school when I was around 17 with some friends. Came in for dinner to see a big bowl of boiled chicken feet and unlayed eggs ( from butchered chickens). My mother got a hankering for some old southern cooking-- My friends decided to pass on dinner.

Got to agree on the boiled chicken feet

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[cooked]

Our neighbours are really happy when I bring a Kilo of chicken feet ( 17 Baht I think) back for them.

[Litlos]

Fresh water tortoise in Isaan, bloody chewy and flavour not so great. Plus most of the other things mentioned. The dancing shrimp was from a travelling vendor on Soi Nana. I do like the fried crickets with a few beers, nice nutty flavour, but the legs get stuck in the teeth. The chickens feet not so great either, take 3 kilo of feet add about 50 chilli's and a few other bits and boil is apparently the secret family recipe.

Cheers

[Chittychangchang]

Fresh water tortoise in Isaan, bloody chewy and flavour not so great. Plus most of the other things mentioned. The dancing shrimp was from a travelling vendor on Soi Nana. I do like the fried crickets with a few beers, nice nutty flavour, but the legs get stuck in the teeth. The chickens feet not so great either, take 3 kilo of feet add about 50 chilli's and a few other bits and boil is apparently the secret family recipe.

Cheers

Fried crickets yum, the western alternative is crisps and nuts.

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