Tasty Tarantulas
One of the more exotic snacks in Cambodia are deep-fried tarantulas. A food born out of necessity during the meager years of the Pol Pot regime, Cambodians enjoy their crisp tarantulas to this day.
Tony, Beverly and I are quite experimental when it comes to food. But there are limits. The thought of stuffing a sizeable hairy spider into our mouths was almost too much to bear. But only almost. Watch this short video and see who’s enjoying themselves beyond what you’d consider normal.
I love your silly mugs!
Oh my and I thought Chez Panisse was the posh spot.
Ha, ha. Little did you know that the place to be is Cambodia.
Could. Not. Do. It!
That’s what I thought at first….
Tony was the best. “It tastes like a tarantula!”
Like he would know, ha!
Zactly.
I heard its similar to crab. Is that true?
Oh and to answer your question, I guess stewed fruit bat and python curry were some of the weirdest I’ve tried so far
It doesn’t taste like crab at all, people just tell you that to make you feel better. Fruit bat and python? That’s pretty exotic. Where did you eat that?
Good to know. The fruit bat was shot fresh and cooked in the mountains of Negros Occidental, and the python was caught eating a chicken in the middle of the night by some neighbors on the island of Camiguin. Both places are in the Philippines
Oh, so I have to ask you, did you try balut? (We could never bring ourselves to eat embryonic birds).
Nope! Same here, definitely not my thing.