Fun and strange food in SE Asia

Some of the food I've come across during my travels in SE Asia. They may seem fun, strange, exotic.... take your pick. See also the albums on LAOS markets  and Laos bush meat for photos of Laos "bush meat".

This is a bamboo rat in the market, and then on our dinner plate -

 These were the remains after we had eaten it -

Bamboo shoots, food for the bamboo rat

Bears for food and bile in Mongla on the Myanmar/China border, you can just see the paw here -

Bird nest product in China

skinned buffalo head in Laos

old lady putting an axe to a buffalo head

 skinned buffalo head, Laos 2008

buffalo feet and horns

 Buffalo blood

chicken

skinned frog - it is still alive (Laos)

fried frogs legs, Phnom Penh

 grocery shop, Vieng Xai, Laos

Insects -
bamboo worms were my favourite -

Jeff choosing insects in Pattaya 

Phnom Penh

Deep fried spiders - I have written an article on these spiders.

 Picnic in Laos

Palm sugar

 pig dish in China

prawns in Seram, Maluku

 and dried prawns in Siem Reap

rattan shoots in Laos

sardine cans recycled  in Luang Prabang

In Siem Reap, sausages

 snakehead & sausages

snakehead

 terrapins

Vulture food

 what you need after all that food

Phuket menu

Cambodian MdD's!

Laos village breakfast

 Thailand

Love the name, restaurant in Kuching

Siem Reap sign

 saw this in Carrefour in Mid Valley, KL, but didn't see any camels walking around the supermarket.

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