Why would we eat insects? But they taste damn good, how could we not eat it? Crickets, tarantula, water bug, ant, silkworm, frog, and et cetera. We human sure like eating. Of course it was because of the wars that made it all happened, the lack of food, and blah blah blah. Nowadays, human tend to want to make everything better, whether it’s good or bad, we will do it. I ate some of them, and they taste incredibly good, but why would they only bring them out in the evening? The vendor told me that we gotta let them eat their three meals first, so they will taste great.
(KON-TES-LORNG), the water bugs, black and classic. Unique and rare, how to catch it involves critical mathematic thinking. They live underground, we need some very power attraction. We need a bucket fill with water under a light bulb, the illumination will attract the bug to climb on the bulb, and when it gets really hot, the bug will fall into the water bucket that will of course weaken their wings, and be trapped.
How to eat it? It looks too scary even to me, mom told me you gotta twist the head and the wing off first, which will taste very irritating if you happened to be brave enough to eat it. Then there’s this needle in the middle of the bug’s body which might literally choke you if you don’t remove it, according to mom.
(JEONG-RET), crickets; (JEONG-RET CHEMOLE), male crickets; (JEONG-RET DAIK), metal crickets. Crickets live underground as well, but it’s everywhere compared to the water bug. Why we eat it, is because of the smell, somehow, I dunno how too, but it smells good, I’ve never thought bugs would smell this good; plus the well seasonings, YUMMY! How to eat it is very simple, take off its head if you wish, if not, eat it whole; crunchy, crispy, like a dark Dorritos.
(DOK-DEUR), silkworms, you know the worm which gives us silk to make clothes, that’s what we’re eating! I dun wanna talk about the price, but this thing costs. Silkworms have to be farmed, you won’t find them anywhere else. They’re the actual silkworms, but the second stage of being one. It smells like soil, the inside of it looks like a silk factory on the making, and taste like dumplings dough. It’s actually good in taste and better in looks.
(AH-PING), tarantulas, they look like spider to be precise. Just all the other insect, it is attracted to light, and can be caught within a water bucket. It lives deep down the ground, drilling like an armadillo. It is weird to say this, but the best part in a tarantula is the eggs, just like a crab eggs, it taste buttery and nutritious, despite the fact that it looks the scariest among all.
(KRO-LON-TORN), the long-legged frogs. They live in the field, mostly the rice ones, they loooove (please read it as how it looks like) eating. And we loooove (please read it as how it looks like) eating them. In the rainy season, you’ll be seeing them a lot, in your backyard, the fountain, the garden, they’re everywhere; not jumping, but being ran over. The texture and smell is the same with the crickets, very tasty, you will feel buggy when eating IF you don’t look at it.
(PONG-KRUUCH), sparrow’ eggs; (PREAP), pigeons. The small birds you’ll get to see when you visit The Phnom Penh Royal Palace, a big flock of them literally live there. I dunno how to describe the eggs, like it tastes just like a chicken or a duck egg, it’s just that it’s shupa tiny. It applies the same for the pigeons, they taste like a miniature chicken or duck.
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