Bag full of ants
While sounding weird, this dish is amazingly simple: ants mixed with coconut. In Thai called miang mod daeng sai maphrao [เมี่ยงมดแดงใส่มะพร้าว] which literally means ‘mixed ants with coconut’. From what I hear, they collect the ants by knocking their nest out of a tree into a basket. Then they have to quickly (these ones bite) take the basket with a wet cloth and somehow get the ants into a bucket full of water. Yeah, I’m missing some details here, but in the end the ants die by drowning. Finally, they are stir-fried with the coconut and you have yourself a nice tasty snack! I don’t find them to have much flavor, but they’re not bad. Definitely one of the better insects I’ve tried.
Hanging off the spoon
Big spoonful
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By admin | April 27, 2008
Catfish 'fingers'
Here’s a plate of catfish pieces from Dinosaur BBQ. I prefer to call them catfish ‘fingers’. nothing too odd about these, but they are very different from the catfish in Thailand. Thais eat a lot of catfish (bplaa duk [ปลาดุก]) prepared in many ways. Thailand is also known for some of the largest catfish in the world: the mekong giant catfish. These fish can be in excess of 250 kilograms! Unfortunately, they are very endangered due to overfishing so I don’t plan on giving them a taste anytime soon.
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By admin | April 26, 2008
A wonderful scallop entree
Here’s an entree of scallops from a restaurant in Rochester. Nothing too strange about this one, but it was so tasty I couldn’t resist posting the picture. While scallops are common in some asian cuisines, it is rare to find them in Thailand. As far as I know, even though the use of shellfish is common in Thailand, no Thai dish makes use of them since they are not harvested in the region.
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By admin | April 25, 2008
Another delicious meal
Well, everytim I make it back to the US, I must have a trash plate at some point during the trip. Here’s this visit’s. Wow it makes my mouth water just looking at this photo. Too bad there’s nothing like this available in Bangkok.
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By admin | April 25, 2008
Deer and goose meat
Nicely cooked goose meat
Some pheasant meat
Here’s a nice collection of some less common meats. I certainly wouldn’t consider these rare or strange, but we don’t see them all that often. And they sure are tasty! This is venison, goose, and pheasant all three of which my friend hunted and smoked for our eating pleasure. We should have made some Thai dipping sauces for them.
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By admin | April 24, 2008
Tofurky
What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than with a Tofurky? Actually these photos were taken in April, but that’s besides the point. What we have here is a totally vegan imitation turkey. Unfortunately this one isn’t molded into the shape of a turkey like the one I saw last year, but it certainly tasted a lot better. While it’s not something I’m gonna go out and search for or even order if it happened to be on a menu somewhere, I will admit that it didn’t taste too bad. Remarkably similar to turkey. The texture is what really puts me off though. Weird, mushy, close to meat but still tofu-ish.
Anyway, this one even comes with all the fixins. You get vegan stuffing, gravy, and even a fake wishbone! I don’t know what the wishbone was made of, but it wasn’t nearly as good an imitation as the tofurky itself. Anyway, I guess it wouldn’t be too bad if I was a vegan craving turkey meat. Although I’m still curious why tofurky isn’t spelled tofurkey? Wouldn’t that be a real combination of tofu and turkey?
Inside of a tofurkey...with 'stuffing'
Why is tofurky missing an 'e'?
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By admin | April 21, 2008
Odd looking geoduck
Fresh geoduck
Here’s a strange one that unfortunately I haven’t had the opportunity to try yet. These photos were taken in an Asian grocery store in New York City I don’t know much about geoduck, but I’ll definitely need to add it to my ‘To Eat’ list.
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By admin | April 19, 2008
Alligator bits
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Frogs on a stick
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