Name, your scariest Thai food(s)

[SattaheapSea]

59 minutes ago, peterb17 said:

Am intrigued?

 

To the OP- why are you showing us a European / French jar of shrimp paste . Really weird- probably totally pasteurized and nothing like the real thing. 

 

Nearly all SE cuisines use a version of shrimp paste - yes it smells a bit , but you don't use much and without it many dishes would not be the same.  

 

I think the live shrimp salad is a bit scary, felg sorry for the shrimps- but it tastes very good. 

 

Absolutely will vote Poor Sucker as #1 - those embryo chick egg things are just gross! 

i agree the local one is worse than the export one.  you might have seen Vietnamese and Laos version.

I found out too they use shrimp paste in most of Thai dishes.

 

 

[Laza 45]

...plaa rah...  

[SattaheapSea]

13 minutes ago, TSF said:

Shrimp paste is great but plarah is the most vile stinking crap under the sun. 

 

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Also, it will kill you.

I love shrimp paste too. 

 

really? you guys  were osmotic  from Thai wives

[SattaheapSea]

 

 

how about these?

do you still like the smell?

[dotpoom]

Every time I sit down to a meal I ask the Mrs. if everything is dead.....if she says yes but I see something moving, it scares me. Cannot tell you the name as it can differ from meal to meal.

[RuamRudy]

The roadside sushi that sits in the glass cabinet for hours - how can that be safe to eat?

[MJCM]

2 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

 

I never seen it (for sale that is) like this.

 

I have seen the variety that is usually for sale on the streets where (when you cut the egg in half) you can see the contours of an Embryo inside, but not this. I think this one is almost fully grown.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)

Edited August 18, 2016 by MJCM

[csabo]

3 hours ago, TimTang said:

There was a bar girl that was in a relationship with my boss. I got to know her a little and ran into her at Voodoo Lounge where she worked. I bought her a beer and we talked a bit, then she went out to get something to eat. She came back with these huge black beetles. I said "you're not going to eat those, are you". She proceeded to rip one apart, snapping wings and what have you until she got to the guts. Then she insisted I try a piece. There were 2 slabs of flesh on each side of it's now dismantled body. It almost made me sick just looking but I said OK. It tasted GREAT! I couldn't believe I was actually eating an insect. But it wasn't good enough for me to pursue any further. The whole dismantling a bug thing just turned me off, but if someone else did it I'd definitely give it a go.

 

Crabs and lobsters are just big insects. Do you eat them?

[Oxx]

8 minutes ago, csabo said:

Crabs and lobsters are just big insects. Do you eat them?

 

Uhh, how many legs to insects have? Six last time I checked.

 

How many legs to crabs and lobsters have? Ten at last count.  That means they're not insects.

[lemonjelly]

There's something called "goong som", it's fermented sea fish and I suspect it's got shrimp paste in it too, I thought my kid had filled his nappy when I walked in the house the other day, but no, mum had a plastic jerry can full of the stuff, she'd briefly taken the lid off. Plaa raa is nothing compared to this stuff, ask your missus.

[Franky Bear]

Boiled gerbil.

[bazza40]

A toss up between durian and fish eyes. My Thai GF loves both of them.

[louse1953]

On 8/10/2016 at 3:56 AM, lemonjelly said:

BBQ rat

In Laos they swore to me it was a Lao squirrel.

[louse1953]

1 hour ago, MJCM said:

 

I never seen it (for sale that is) like this.

 

I have seen the variety that is usually for sale on the streets where (when you cut the egg in half) you can see the contours of an Embryo inside, but not this. I think this one is almost fully grown.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)

Balut in the Phillippines.Missus rekons they're here but i haven't seen any.Luckily the only one i had was mostly yolk but i have seen em with plenty of feathers.

[MJCM]

51 minutes ago, louse1953 said:

Balut in the Phillippines.Missus rekons they're here but i haven't seen any.Luckily the only one i had was mostly yolk but i have seen em with plenty of feathers.

 

They are here absolutely. When I lived in Pattaya a seller of those came around regularly.

 

They are called Khai Khao or ไข่ข้าว

 

Ask a seller of these as they might know

 

 

Edited August 18, 2016 by MJCM

[willyumiii]

 McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Chester's and 7/11 microwave food...Yes they are all Thailand food now.

Most Thai food is pretty fresh and healthy, even the street food.

The imported junk food is dangerous, unhealthy and scares me.

 

Edited August 18, 2016 by willyumiii

[fishbrando]

Salad cream.

[willyumiii]

2 hours ago, csabo said:

 

Crabs and lobsters are just big insects. Do you eat them?

No, they are crustaceans, not insects...

Back to school for you !

[Jingthing]

16 minutes ago, willyumiii said:

 McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Chester's and 7/11 microwave food...Yes they are all Thailand food now.

Most Thai food is pretty fresh and healthy, even the street food.

The imported junk food is dangerous, unhealthy and scares me.

 

I don't agree with you.

An awful lot of Thai food I see is cooked in too much oil, too salty, with way too much sugar, often using clearly dirty ingredients. 

Edited August 18, 2016 by Jingthing

[SattaheapSea]

1 hour ago, fishbrando said:

Salad cream.

 

I bought a bottle of salad cream and put it in a fridge.

it doesn't go off for the next few months.

this is deadly food.

they use too much Preservative

 

many foods also have borax.

[SattaheapSea]

3 hours ago, lemonjelly said:

There's something called "goong som", it's fermented sea fish and I suspect it's got shrimp paste in it too, I thought my kid had filled his nappy when I walked in the house the other day, but no, mum had a plastic jerry can full of the stuff, she'd briefly taken the lid off. Plaa raa is nothing compared to this stuff, ask your missus.

OMG

[SattaheapSea]

4 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

The roadside sushi that sits in the glass cabinet for hours - how can that be safe to eat?

no it 's not health eating stale fish.

[SoiBiker]

Gaeng Som? That's a sour curry. Tasty stuff. 

 

 

[lemonjelly]

8 hours ago, TimTang said:

There was a bar girl that was in a relationship with my boss. I got to know her a little and ran into her at Voodoo Lounge where she worked. I bought her a beer and we talked a bit, then she went out to get something to eat. She came back with these huge black beetles. I said "you're not going to eat those, are you". She proceeded to rip one apart, snapping wings and what have you until she got to the guts. Then she insisted I try a piece. There were 2 slabs of flesh on each side of it's now dismantled body. It almost made me sick just looking but I said OK. It tasted GREAT! I couldn't believe I was actually eating an insect. But it wasn't good enough for me to pursue any further. The whole dismantling a bug thing just turned me off, but if someone else did it I'd definitely give it a go.

There's something called "goong som", it's fermented sea fish and I suspect it's got shrimp paste in it too, I thought my kid had filled his nappy when I walked in the house the other day, but no, mum had a plastic jerry can full of the stuff, she'd  briefly taken the lid off

 

24 minutes ago, SoiBiker said:

Gaeng Som? That's a sour curry. Tasty stuff. 

 

 

Noooo, not gaeng som, I know gaeng som, this stuff's called goong som.... It's totally gross

[PoorSucker]

5 hours ago, MJCM said:

 

They are here absolutely. When I lived in Pattaya a seller of those came around regularly.

 

They are called Khai Khao or ไข่ข้าว

 

Ask a seller of these as they might know

 

Not the same, Khai Khao (black egg) is just spices injected to an egg when raw, you can get it at any 7-11.

The fermented fetus egg is rare in Thailand but common in the Philippines.

Last time I saw the fermented egg here on Samui was 15 years ago, same time I got my last deep fried Cobra chips.

[Docno]

10 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

Had that before in the Philippines and Cambodia. Had it again last week in a Vietnamese restaurant in Singapore (they do it the same as in Cambodia - pepper and lemon sauce). It's really not as bad as it looks... and the secret is not to look. Didn't know they did it in Thailand as well, but not surprising...

[Docno]

This is perhaps the one thing I won't try (or haven't yet). Mole cricket or grachawn. But they put a big smile on my girlfriend's face.

 

[tw25rw]

9 hours ago, willyumiii said:

No, they are crustaceans, not insects...

Back to school for you !

They're all arthropods.. As are the spiders they eat in Cambodia..

[tw25rw]

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I don't agree with you.

An awful lot of Thai food I see is cooked in too much oil, too salty, with way too much sugar, often using clearly dirty ingredients. 

Not to mention the cook picking his/her nose or other orifices without washing their hands.

[Oxx]

8 hours ago, SattaheapSea said:

 

I bought a bottle of salad cream and put it in a fridge.

it doesn't go off for the next few months.

this is deadly food.

they use too much Preservative

 

many foods also have borax.

 

Don't know which brand you bought, but "Heinz Salad Cream... has no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives" and will keep for months in the fridge.  The link below includes a full list of ingredients.

 

http://www.heinz.co.uk/Products/Salad_Cream/Products/Heinz-Salad-Cream