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Keyword Album: Weird food

Date: 21/05/2013
Owner: Guest
Size: 13 items
Snake wine
 
 

Snake wine

The Vietnamese love adding snakes and scorpions to their rice wine to give it a bit of an extra kick!

Date: 28/12/2009
Views: 1405
Keywords: Hà Tây, Vietnam, Alcohol, Hanoi, Rice wine, Scorpions, Snakes, Weird food, Wine
Some grubs of some sort at Hang Be markets
 
 

Some grubs of some sort at Hang Be markets

Date: 28/12/2009
Views: 718
Keywords: Hà Tây, Vietnam, Grubs, Hang Be markets, Markets, Weird food
A sack containing an unknown poor animal at Hang Be markets
 
 

A sack containing an unknown poor animal at Hang Be markets

Date: 28/12/2009
Views: 512
Keywords: Hang Be markets, markets, food, weird food, Hanoi, Vietnam
Barbecued dog, or thit cho, at Hang Be
 
 

Barbecued dog, or thit cho, at Hang Be

Dog meat is relatively common in Vietnam, and when grilled is called thit cho nuong

Date: 23/12/2009
Views: 6443
Keywords: Ha Tay, Vietnam, Dog meat, Hang Be markets, Weird food
A cart of insects, spiders and snakes on kebab sticks in a Phnom Penh street
 
 

A cart of insects, spiders and snakes on kebab sticks in a Phnom Penh street

Just the day before, I traveled five hours to find deep fried spiders, this was on the same street as our hotel!

Date: 09/11/2009
Views: 2464
Keywords: Cambodia, Chrouy Chângvar, Phnom Penh, Food, Insects, Snakes, Spiders, Street food, Tarantulas, Weird foods
Deep fried tarantulas are a local delicacy, particularly in Skuon (nicknamed Spiderville)
 
 

Deep fried tarantulas are a local delicacy, particularly in Skuon (nicknamed Spiderville)

Eating of spiders is rumoured to have begun during food shortages until the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. The locals liked the taste, and even when other food begun to be in supply again they stuck to eating the spiders!

Date: 09/11/2009
Views: 1315
Keywords: Cambodia, Kâmpóng Cham, Phumi Chheutéal, Skuon, Food, Insects, Spiders, Tarantulas, Weird foods
A bowl of deep fried tarantulas (yes, the spiders)
 
 

A bowl of deep fried tarantulas (yes, the spiders)

I traveled 2 hours south of Phnom Penh to a town called Skuon to find these

Date: 09/11/2009
Views: 1136
Keywords: Cambodia, Kâmpóng Cham, Phumi Chheutéal, Skuon, Insects, Spiders, Tarantulas, Weird foods
Pig trotters
 
 

Pig trotters

Date: 08/11/2009
Views: 796
Keywords: Cambodia, Chrouy Chângvar, Phnom Penh, Meat, Pig, Pork, Psar Thmei, Weird foods
Various insects
 
 

Various insects

Yet no spiders!

Date: 08/11/2009
Views: 949
Keywords: Cambodia, KH.07, 11, Phnom Penh, Insects, Markets, Psar Thmei, Weird foods
Some small brains at Psar Thmei
 
 

Some small brains at Psar Thmei

I'm not certain what animal these are from...

Date: 08/11/2009
Views: 912
Keywords: Cambodia, KH.07, 11, Phnom Penh, Brains, Markets, Meat, Psar Thmei, Weird foods
Some frogs, skinned alive still jumping around a bench at the markets
 
 

Some frogs, skinned alive still jumping around a bench at the markets

Just before I shot this video, I saw one of them hop off the bench and land on the ground

Date: 08/11/2009
Views: 706
Keywords: Weird foods, frog, meat, markets, Cambodia, Chroŭy Chângvar, Phnom Penh, Chrouy Chângvar, video
A young girl next to some pig heads at Psar Leu
 
 

A young girl next to some pig heads at Psar Leu

Date: 06/11/2009
Views: 910
Keywords: Cambodia, Phumi Réach Born (1), Siem Reap, Markets, Meat, Pig, Pork, Psar Leu, Weird foods
Beondegi (silkworm larvae) which is cooking on every street corner
 
 

Beondegi (silkworm larvae) which is cooking on every street corner

Date: 07/03/2009
Views: 1852
Keywords: Myong-dong, Seoul, South Korea, Beondegi, Silkworm larvae, Weird foods
   

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