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

[ian71]

For me, i dont see Bugs as a needed source of protein. Ill stick the standard chicken,beer or pork, and lamb when at home.

I've been Australia many times but one time i went to Centrepoint Tower or known to some as AMP Tower and went to the Revolving restaurant near the top, great fun trying to find your seat once you've got some food, As its gone from the position you left it! ahh

But the buffet food i had was of animals i've never tried and slight problem i mixed them all on one plate! so i might be wrong on a few descriptions here, but i thought, Camel was tough as old boots and stringy with fat in between the meat! Crocodile was a fishy tasting chicken, and Kangaroo was cross between Chicken and pork, very nice.

Now all the fuss in the Europe about horse, i wonder if pure horse meet would actually be like good lean beef? well should be as no one has noticed the difference for years in burgers? as mentioned above, some places in South east Asia dont have many stray dogs around!!!! would that be like beef or pork? or camel!!!! ahhhhh

[David_Loves_Ubonwan]

Now all the fuss in the Europe about horse, i wonder if pure horse meet would actually be like good lean beef?

It has a stronger, more "game" taste than beef, and contains less fat so is easy to overcook if you're not careful. And it is actually more healthy for you than beef.

David

[siamruby]

Wow...what an interesting website,thanks David. I'll give it a try ( and hopefully the package will pass the random check from US customs ) hahaha...

[issanboy]

Tod, you're quite adventurous there. Giant water bug แมงดา has such unique scent. Some people said it's like skunk hahaha...anyway,I like it sometimes. I wish I could find canned ones.

You can probably go to certain asian stores and find them frozen. I'm not sure if they would taste good canned. My grandmother likes to make it into some sort of hot sauce that you can eat with other dishes. I do agree they do have a little smell to them.

[yy]

There is an old Singaporean (probably of Chinese ethnic origin) saying that a dog can always recognize a person who has eaten his/her comrades by the smell (odour?) of dog meat permeating from that human's body. Hence if a dog who is usually friendly to humans bark uncharacteristically at a person each time that dog sees him/her, then that is because the dog can smell out that person to be a dog-eater

Regarding the unusual things I have eaten in Thailand, they are nothing too off the beaten tracken. Deepfried and salted mealworms and fried fish skin will be it. Since the former tastes like fried salted nuts and the latter like the Thai fried, seasoned seaweed junkfood of the brand Tao Gei Noi, I see no reason to eat them anymore. Not sure if young (unripe jackfruit) curry considers as unusual, but here, I am cheating a bit. Namely, it is a Thai dish (as well as Indian and Indonesian dish) which I got the idea from an online Thai curry recipe. My Thai frd tried my modified version of it (using Singaporean/Malaysian curry paste) and said it tasted very good, hence I think having passed her taste test, it might make do as an er-hum unusual Thai dish I have tried. Now I love it to bits, although very shockingly, unripe jackfruit is next to impossible to find in Singapore, an ironically Southeast Asian country, while I can find it quite easily in Australian oriental stores (usually in canned versions). I guess my best bet to get it in Singaporew will be a shopping trip to Golden Mile Complex (dubbed Little Thailand). Now, hoping to use it to make a vegan version of the celebrated Indian dish, butter chicken (since young jackfruit has a texture not unlike that of cooked chicken breast meat), though it will now have to be known as 'maybe margarine young jackfruit LOL