edible insects Options

[vulture]

Hello guys,

i've heared that edible insects can be bought in Cambodia. In my country (holland) they can not unfortunately. Therefore i've searched on the web for companies that sell them. This search has been unsuccesfull however.

Therefore I am now looking for individual sellers of them. Maybe it's possible to send (for instance) a kilo of fried worms (or whatever is available) packed via some express service.

People who are interested or that want to help, please respond. Hopefully we can work something out that will benefit both sides.

[ham_let]

please don't make multiple threads, thanks.

[VietSk8rGUI]

i fail to see the seriousness of this thread

[Goombaking209]

yeah, cambodians are known for the salted deepfried spiders

[Ream Bong]

yeah, cambodians are known for the salted deepfried spiders

haha I tested it. not bad. recommend for anyone.

[Goombaking209]

well i hear it tastes like crab, and im no fan of crabs so i would not be trying spiders .. i would try the bat soup though, i hear it can cure anything

[corky]

i fail to see the seriousness of this thread

i believe if you stare really hard at the screen for about 2 hours you will realise the seriousness of this thread.
its bloody serious. this guy lives in amsterdam, AMSTERDAM and he cant get any edible insects. the guy can mucnh magic shrooms and puff willy-nilly but he cant enjoy the simple p[leasure of mucnhing on six legged delights....
now whats not serious about that?

[ham_let]

well i hear it tastes like crab, and im no fan of crabs so i would not be trying spiders .. i would try the bat soup though, i hear it can cure anything

yea i don't like crab ither. i only like crab when someone already took all the meat out of the shell. lol. i've cut myself many times while eating crabs. not fun.

[Goombaking209]

yea i don't like crab ither. i only like crab when someone already took all the meat out of the shell. lol. i've cut myself many times while eating crabs. not fun.

i guess you dont use the crab shell cracker? so many foreigners come to the US and eat in resturaunts asking what they're used for

[VietSk8rGUI]

i believe if you stare really hard at the screen for about 2 hours you will realise the seriousness of this thread.
its bloody serious. this guy lives in amsterdam, AMSTERDAM and he cant get any edible insects. the guy can mucnh magic shrooms and puff willy-nilly but he cant enjoy the simple p[leasure of mucnhing on six legged delights....
now whats not serious about that?

erm...YOUR FACE!!!!

yea i don't like crab ither. i only like crab when someone already took all the meat out of the shell. lol. i've cut myself many times while eating crabs. not fun.

ditto except i just think it is too much work for the amount of meat you get

do you have to crack the spider shell too? or can you just eat it whole?

This post has been edited by VietSk8rGUI: Nov 5 2006, 09:30 PM

[corky]

erm...YOUR FACE!!!!
ditto except i just think it is too much work for the amount of meat you get

do you have to crack the spider shell too? or can you just eat it whole?

my face is very serious! on a serious scale my face ranks at the most serious of seriousness..
all of my posts are serious. i never joke. everyone thinks i am being quirky/corky corny/dorky
but in fact i am a serious person, wth a serious face who has serious problems and emotions.
SERIOUS problems.....SERIOUS you hear????
seriously corky
serious!

[Dara]

I seen a pic somewhere where insects came in a can or baggie was it? ...product of Thailand though. Maybe you can order online somewhere.

[bongchkuat]

I just came overland from Siem Reap to Thailand today. It is the rainy season now and just about every other village house had a small homemade grashopper/cricket catcher. I'll be going back in the next month sometime from Thailand and I'll take a photo. If you have crickets or grasshoppers you can set up your own little trap using plastic, some water, and a light to attract the bugs. You can set it up in no time it looks VERY easy. Of course it'll have to be in a rural area and you'll need to be in season for crickets.

I don't know if they will be allowed to ship overseas. You can find all sorts of things in the markets. Spiders, frogs, snakes, baby duck fetuses. Yesterday they were selling a pretty decent amount of grasshoppers for about $.12 cents or 500 riel.

[kpham001]

I will not eat anything that is under the sub-phylum Uniramia but Crustacean such as Lobster and Crab is a big Yes!!! I guess the reasons why some people in here suggested that insect taste like crab is probably due to the fact that the two are under the same Phylum Arthropoda.

[Guyer]

I will not eat anything that is under the sub-phylum Uniramia but Crustacean such as Lobster and Crab is a big Yes!!! I guess the reasons why some people in here suggested that insect taste like crab is probably due to the fact that the two are under the same Phylum Arthropoda.

I see you have taken a few biology courses, right? Anyways, I have never tried any edible insects (unless you include spiders and bugs that accidentally crawl in my mouth), but I guess it's not as bad as eating other things that people eat.

[kpham001]

Yeah! I am a Biochemistry major. It is common for people like me to apply what we learn in class in the real world. It is kind of funny but that is what I notice a lot of people do.

[Guyer]

Yeah! I am a Biochemistry major. It is common for people like me to apply what we learn in class in the real world. It is kind of funny but that is what I notice a lot of people do.

Cool, biological science major here. Most of the time when I relate life to my studies, most people just get confused. They have no idea what I am talking about, especially when I try to explain common biological reactions, people that are not familiar with the subject are like "WTF".

[applepannic]

I've tried spiders, not that bad but very greasy. Nothing like crab, more like dried chewy fish. Crickets are very crunchy and the saltier the better. I wouldn't recommend eating more than one cup in a sit in. Ktea Took, the cicada roach like insect is very good but you can only eat a small amount of meat. the meat that you get from taste like chicken. Bat soup taste exactly like every other soup except that bat meat has a stronger more distinct flavor than any other meat I've tried. Frogs are awesome, stronger odor than chicken but sweater less floury meat. Snakes are an acquire taste but tell you the truth its like a mix of chicken and fish. I'm sure everyone here tried baby duck fetus.

[Super Khmer]

I've tried spiders, not that bad but very greasy. Nothing like crab, more like dried chewy fish. Crickets are very crunchy and the saltier the better. I wouldn't recommend eating more than one cup in a sit in. Ktea Took, the cicada roach like insect is very good but you can only eat a small amount of meat. the meat that you get from taste like chicken. Bat soup taste exactly like every other soup except that bat meat has a stronger more distinct flavor than any other meat I've tried. Frogs are awesome, stronger odor than chicken but sweater less floury meat. Snakes are an acquire taste but tell you the truth its like a mix of chicken and fish. I'm sure everyone here tried baby duck fetus.

Yum yum! Although Western foreigners find it really disgusting!
If you are a khmer who visit Cambodia without eating baby duck fetus ពងទាកូន, your trip ain't complete!

[mano2mano]

Yum yum! Although Western foreigners find it really disgusting!
If you are a khmer who visit Cambodia without eating baby duck fetus ពងទាកូន, your trip ain't complete!

i use to love it when i was younger but now its too hard to even try it anymore. don't eat it too much, think of bird flu