Answer here. thnx. have read such mammalian protein is popular in Isaan part of thailand.

Never heard of such a thing in Chiang Mai. I have seen and tasted in Roi Et - guess what? It tastes like chicken.

Never heard of such a thing in Chiang Mai. I have seen and tasted in Roi Et - guess what? It tastes like chicken.

more like rabbit.

Only eaten by the very poor who have no other choice. You might have to visit a poor family in an isaan village to try it.

Wasn't that a popular dish in England at one time?

Only eaten by the very poor who have no other choice. You might have to visit a poor family in an isaan village to try it.

Incorrect answer and snobbish attitude. Its sold up and down highway 1 and 11 from Bangkok to Chaing Mai.

Only eaten by the very poor who have no other choice. You might have to visit a poor family in an isaan village to try it.

Incorrect answer and snobbish attitude. Its sold up and down highway 1 and 11 from Bangkok to Chaing Mai.

I wouldnt have posted if you had answered on your first post. Are we talking about big bamboo rats or rats that run around the streets? Normal kind of rats can be eaten but normally only by the poorest people. I think they call it STAR meat in the Phillipines.

Only eaten by the very poor who have no other choice. You might have to visit a poor family in an isaan village to try it.

Incorrect answer and snobbish attitude. Its sold up and down highway 1 and 11 from Bangkok to Chaing Mai.

I wouldnt have posted if you had answered on your first post. Are we talking about big bamboo rats or rats that run around the streets? Normal kind of rats can be eaten but normally only by the poorest people. I think they call it STAR meat in the Phillipines.

They do not eat the common sewer rat. They eat the rice rat which is as large or larger than a cat. Go out to Doi Saket and learn something then come on down to isaan and learn more. Seen it for sell at food stalls on the 118.

Nothing like sewer rats and certainly not as big as cats. Quite clean little fellows, actually - rice field rats that live on the rice crop. I arranged for a US TV crew to film a 'rat hunt' by Roi Et farmers some 15 years ago.

On the other hand, the sewer rats could use some culling. Pop over to Muang Mai market and watch the little fellows scampering around your feet...

Wasn't that a popular dish in England at one time?

of course some one of your age,would have first hand experience, and knowledge of such,

I've eaten rat in Vietnam and would have thought I was having quail if I'd not been told. It was cooked the same way as they cook quail in Vietnamese restaurants in Australia. Very pleasant, just a matter of mind over matter.

I'd still baulk at dog and probably shy away from horse.

Rat eating, and I think they were the ordinary sewer variety, was the theme in James Clavell's novel King Rat.

I am very concerned - I live in the NE.

Thai wife & family tell me that they do not eat rat.

They must be saving $$$ (my $$$) - cruel people.

Must go, FIL has arrived in his Merc coupe.

These are rice rats. Photo by me and yes I did indulge.

Never realized that they were so big...

At what is now Bunissimo, Wat Gate, there was a B49 all you can eat restaurant.

I went around to Thai friends who said they where going and did I fancy.

I had a small plate then went back for refill and tried a different White meat dish.

Tasted strange not unpleasant but I did comment to my friends who laughed and said Dog.

They where serious.

john

These are rice rats. Photo by me and yes I did indulge.

so what's your comment on taste, texture, fleshyness ?

At what is now Bunissimo, Wat Gate, there was a B49 all you can eat restaurant.

I went around to Thai friends who said they where going and did I fancy.

I had a small plate then went back for refill and tried a different White meat dish.

Tasted strange not unpleasant but I did comment to my friends who laughed and said Dog.

They where serious.

Fairly unlikely as dog is pretty spendy. Wouldn't appear in a cheapo all-you-can-eat deal.

Rat eating, and I think they were the ordinary sewer variety, was the theme in James Clavell's novel King Rat.

True, but they said they were selling "mouse deer", which was a small deer and a delicacy. They were lying though.

Rat on Rice...........ohhhh Mickey !

"Fairly unlikely as dog is pretty spendy"

Er don't fink they bought their meat, probably someones pet who went missing.

john

Or Rat or Snake or ?

These are rice rats. Photo by me and yes I did indulge.

so what's your comment on taste, texture, fleshyness ?

Much like rabbit or gray squirrel, small bones. Nothing like chicken.