I have eaten this dish a couple of times. I believe It is made up of some type of flying ant and ant eggs. I found it a bit sour but once you get past the idea that you are eating insects it is pretty good.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Keith will eat anything
There was an old US commercial which had the line "Give it to Mikey, Mikey will eat anything". I think sometimes I am like Mikey.
I have eaten this dish a couple of times. I believe It is made up of some type of flying ant and ant eggs. I found it a bit sour but once you get past the idea that you are eating insects it is pretty good.
I have put up this second picture of grasshoppers and I think silk worms after a comment to see if maybe Snap can tell me if what I ate was a silk.
I have eaten this dish a couple of times. I believe It is made up of some type of flying ant and ant eggs. I found it a bit sour but once you get past the idea that you are eating insects it is pretty good.
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I had the advantage of not knowing what I was eating, until 2/3 of the way through the bowl of soupy ant eggs...didn't put me off, I quite enjoyed them. I haven't tried the actual ants though.
ReplyDeleteI have read about the ant egg soup but don't think I have every seen it. I would be interested in hearing the story behind how you got it and who told you it was ant eggs. I am not sure this had ant eggs in it but it was my guess.
DeleteI was invited to stay at a friend's house in a rural village between Chiang Rai and Mae Sai. She'd built a brand new house up there, but we dined with her aunty who made sure that she had a farang friendly dish available at dinner time...omelette :) But I enjoyed everything, including the ant egg soup. I think they thought I'd freak out when they told me what it was, but I kept on eating it. I actually felt bad, later while reflecting, I thought perhaps this had been a the highlight of dinner and I'd eaten most of it.
DeleteI bought deep friend bamboo worms from street sellers, as I was advised not to buy them from the supermarkets because you never know how fresh they are. If they're being sold in the streets/markets it means that they're in season and fresh.
...that should read *deep fried* :(
DeleteI assume you tried to put up a link and it did not work. You can email me if you like at biervoormij@gmail.com.
DeleteI put up the picture of what I think is a silkworm that I ate but maybe it was a bamboo worm. Is this what a bamboo worm looks like?
No, didn't try to put up a link. I think bamboo worms are slightly thinner and longer than your worm...if you Google images for bamboo worms, you'll get a good idea of what they look like.
DeleteI looked up the bamboo worms and agree it is not what I ate. Do you think the bamboo worms were worth looking for? I thought the grasshoppers were OK but just tasted like anything fried and was crunchy. I did not like the silk worms to mushy for me.
DeleteIt looks much better than it sounds :)
ReplyDeleteIt was not bad but not my favorite Thai dish but a lot better than fried silk worms.
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