TotallyOz Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 I have had many experiences in gay Thailand and have loved them all. I love the Thai food and I really enjoy trying new things. I have eaten several odd things that I never thought I would taste including Scorpions and Cobra. I have also eaten many of the bugs off the carts just to say I tried them. I think the most enjoyable odd thing I have eaten was on my bike trip last year and I had a lady that had a fresh honey comb that was still full of dead bees. The honey was the sweetest thing I have tasted and it was fantastic! What is the strangest thing you have eaten or the most enjoyable you have eating in LOS? Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 I tried a black chicken and found it inedible. Quote
Guest Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 I tried a black chicken and found it inedible. Can you tell me what that is please? Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 Snake soup is delicious. It's more a Chinese dish than a Thai one. It can be found in several Chinese restaurants but only in the winter season as it is supposed to ward off colds and 'flu. It is usually served with chrysanthemum leaves sprinkled on top, and tastes rather like a slightly spicy chicken soup. Quote
Gaybutton Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 How about the strangest thing people tried to get me to eat, but I couldn't even look at it, let alone actually eat it. For me there are two. I can't remember what it's called, but there is one dish on which some Thai friends love to chow down. It's roasted, unhatched but fully developed, baby chickens. I don't think I can handle that one, so no thank you very much. The other occurred when a Thai friend who owns a fruit farm near Chiang Mai took me out to his farm. They have a problem with fruit-eating bats and they have nets set up to capture them. Meanwhile, he hires Burmese illegal aliens to work his farm. When he took me to visit his farm they had prepared lunch for us. They had grilled captured fruit bats, heads and all. My friend didn't want to try to eat that any more than I did. I didn't know how we were going to get out of it. We didn't want to insult them, embarrass them, or hurt their feelings. Fortunately he was clever. He told them he wished he had known they were going to make food for us, but we just finished a big lunch on the way out to the farm. Thank God, that got us out of it gracefully. Quote
pong Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 I can't remember what it's called, but there is one dish on which some Thai friends love to chow down. It's roasted, unhatched but fully developed, baby chickens. I don't think I can handle that one, so no thank you very much. Thoese eggs are farely rare in THaild-but quite common all over South-East Asia, esp. in the Phillippines. Could also be duck. And now just guess what they are thought of to be good for (no prizes this time!!..... For more weird food the neighbours, Laos and Myanmar=Birma, offer much, much more in weirdness. I once sat in a bus-with many white tourists-in Laos when we stopped and saw a Laos lady strip a squirrel te get ready for the cooking pot. The 2 white young ladies behind me about fainted.... Quote
Guest GaySacGuy Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 I am not much for eating the weird things...but I am sure in some dishes that I have eaten things I didn't know I ate...oh well. The one dish I have seen but not eaten in an Issan food that has some diced meat, some veggies, and LIVE ANTS!! There were ants crawling all around in the dish, and the Thais took sticky rice and picked up the food...and the ants. Not for me!! Quote
Guest xiandarkthorne Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 oily meat battered to a pulpy red mess, kneaded with other unknown material, salt, raw leaves, chemicals and high-cholesterol fat and then either charred on a hot iron plate or else grizzled in a bath of yet more high-cholesterol oil. Isn't it absolutely the strangest thing that I should actually eat things like that when I am in Thailand? And I did it again in Italy, too. I guess that's how I should know I'm a pervert! Quote
kokopelli Posted December 28, 2009 Posted December 28, 2009 For starters the egg with unhatched chick is called "balut", a must try for the adventuresome. Although there are many strange Thai foods I have not eaten, there was one which I found revolting. The bf often brings back a milky like liquid with lumps of something in it. Maybe it is coconut milk with soft, boiled peanuts or something even worse, but one sip is enough to induce the gag reflex. Most likely it is nutritious if you can keep it down. Anyone have ideas on what it is? Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 Can you tell me what that is please? The chicken is actually black and has a vile taste. Here is a link that tells about it and has a picture of it. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/dining/17blac.html Quote
Gaybutton Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 Most likely it is nutritious if you can keep it down. Anyone have ideas on what it is? It's a little difficult to be sure from your description, but it sounds like you are referring to a Thai dessert, which has several variations, commonly sold at Thai open-air markets. I'm surprised you don't like it. It is coconut based, as so many Thai desserts are, and has a pleasant flavor. Assuming we're talking about the same thing, I like it, although I hardly ever buy any of it. Quote
Guest fountainhall Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 The bf often brings back a milky like liquid with lumps of something in it. Maybe it is coconut milk with soft, boiled peanuts or something even worse, but one sip is enough to induce the gag reflex Seems like pine nuts in sweetened coconut milk which, like GB, I like. A variation is coconut milk with small balls of taro which I think is even more tasty. Quote
Guest Oogleman Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 Rice mixed with ants. I stayed on a farm in sisaker for a week and we went for a picnic and fishing. While the fish was cooking over an open fire a guy went up a tree and started shaking it followed by several loud cries of ow ow ow. I then noticed him emptying a jar of big live ants into the steaming rice pot and the ladies mashing the ants in with the rice. It didn`t taste of anything funny but i guess added protein? Quote
Guest luvthai Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 I remember my bf (yes I HAD one) and I walking down a soi in boystown and he goes up to a vendor and buys this giant cockroach and proceeds to eat it as i stand by horrified that he could do that. Needless to say there was no kissing that night or anything oral going on. I am so carefull in what I eat or buy from a vendor. Quote
kokopelli Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 Seems like pine nuts in sweetened coconut milk which, like GB, I like. A variation is coconut milk with small balls of taro which I think is even more tasty. Your description seems to match what I ate. Just not to my liking, kind of like drinking vomit. But the bats do sound like a tasty treat. Quote
Gaybutton Posted December 29, 2009 Posted December 29, 2009 he goes up to a vendor and buys this giant cockroach and proceeds to eat it If it makes you feel any better, it wasn't a cockroach. It was a water bug. (Somehow I doubt that little fact helps very much) Quote
Guest Oogleman Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 If it makes you feel any better, it wasn't a cockroach. It was a water bug. (Somehow I doubt that little fact helps very much) whatever it was i would have heaved immediately. I just can't look! Quote
Guest globalwanderer Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 I've eaten stewed Rat, Snails... raw, and sometimes I hate to think what else. It's on the table, I try some they laugh. I go back to what I know. In most cases if they did not laugh I'd continue! Quote
Gaybutton Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 I've eaten stewed Rat, Snails... raw Of course, many of the Thais get sick over some of the things we eat. Cheese comes to mind. So does mustard. I had a Thai by ask me how I can possibly eat that yellow baby shit. Many also can't understand our distinctions about certain foods for certain meals. Breakfast, for example. "Why you care what time you eat that?" The average Thai makes few distinctions between foods for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. I've had some try cheesecake and they nearly barfed. Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 All of the Thais who have eaten cheesecake at my place loved it. Quote
Guest painai Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 1. Ice cream sundae at KFC with red sauce. Red sauce turned out to be chili sauce, which just doesn't do justice on ice cream for me. 2. sweet corn in ice cream 3. Another time I asked for sour cream for my baked potato at Ole Restaurant, they brought me whipped cream! 4. Thais love to eat chicken feet, not my favorite. Quote
Gaybutton Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 All of the Thais who have eaten cheesecake at my place loved it. I don't think the boys I'm talking about ate cheesecake at your place . . . 1. Ice cream sundae at KFC with red sauce. Chili sauce on a sundae. Mmmmmmm. Right up there with a nice anchovy and whipped cream sandwich. Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 I don't think the boys I'm talking about ate cheesecake at your place . . . Certainly not baby boys. Quote
Guest Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 I've eaten stewed Rat, Snails... raw, and sometimes I hate to think what else. It's on the table, I try some they laugh. I go back to what I know. In most cases if they did not laugh I'd continue! LOL You must be a fun dinner companion. A true adventurer! Quote
