What is the most unusual food you've ever tried in Thailand?

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

my wife used to put salt in her beer and sugar on OUR food.

David

[Susana]

I wonder if putting salt in beer is more of a warm climate thing?

I never got accustomed to sugar in my noodles and stir fried with my veggies. One of the first things I learned to say in Thai was, no sugar, no msg, no meat (in my soup)please. If I eat meat I want to be able to immediately identify it so I can make an informed decision. So no luk chein (sp?) for me, and no blood.

[siamruby]

Rori, I used to put salt in my cola when I was a kid.Don't know why I did,but probably seen someone done it before.
Nam phyyng and Susana, I do eat some fruits with salt and dried pepper flakes พริกกับเกลือ it's called in Thailand. I don't find it unusual and it makes fruit sweeter.
Visionchaser, I've never tried those,but I imagine them to be little french fries?

[trangam]

i have always had watermelon with salt since I remember eating it as kid. I had rat too. Had snake, but not in Thailand, but in my place.
Yes, had salt in my coke too as a kid!

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

I could never get used to sugar on my meals and constantly complained to my wife when she did it. I gave up adding sugar to anything over 40 years ago.

Davvid

[Khun Don]

Strawberries with salt-sounds nasty- but is great-particularly with the small sweet organic strawberries you get in the North of Thailand round about now.

[siamruby]

I just remembered this one thing I had many years ago in the jungle near Trad province,eastern part of Thailand. It was bamboo rice ข้าวขุยไผ่. Old bamboos 30 years+ depends on species will blossom once before it die. Flowers turn into tiny seeds which look almost identical to rice with its brown shell still attached. After removing shell,bamboo rice is cooked the same way as you would regular rice,often in a small bamboo or sometimes wrapped in banana leaves. I don't remember the exact flavor though but it was delicious in the middle of the jungle.

[issanboy]

Just wondering about unusual food items,visitors and locals have tried in Thailand. One thing I used to eat often is coconut flavor ice cream on a bun ( hamburger bun to be exact ) First,the bun in cut half way then sticky rice ( sweeten as it's cooked in coconut milk ) is added,lotus seeds,caramelized pumpkin slices, topped with a few scoops of ice cream,and a dash of crusted-roasted peanut and lastly,evaporated milk. I don't find this to be unusual but many people said it was LOL
Tell me,what you've tried or planning to try.
Enjoy Eating!

I've eaten ice cream on a hamburger bun but that was in MNL. Never had it in thailand.

[siamruby]

At a restaurant inside Suan Lum Night Bazaar my husband and I have tried crocodile steak. The texture was very similar to chicken breast.Just pure white meat.
In Pitsanulok, my husband got to taste Thousand year old egg ไข่เยี่ยวม้า and he was not impressed hahaha also he tried grass jelly เฉาก๊วย in syrup with shaved ice,which he thought it shouldn't be considered as food.

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

I forgot about the thousand year old eggs, I liked those too.

David