Driving Miss Karen

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Bangkok Night Market: I ate a bug and I liked it

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OK I didn’t really like it but I didn’t dislike it either. It was kind of like eating a crunchy vegetable rind with no flavor. The oozy innards had been completely cooked off so even the scorpion was manageable. Brings new meaning to the phrase, I’ll just have the wing. Beside the bugs, everything was delicious during the night market tour. In fact, I liked everything I ate in Thailand that had less than six legs.

I had one of each of the grubs and crickets and only had a scorpion claw. It really is just chitin and not much else
We stayed in the Chinatown neighborhood of Bangkok. It was really nice
The group was a Welshmen married to a Filipino woman, a Cuban, and our Thai guide. It was fun just hearing about all the places the other folks had lived or visited. Awesome!
I did a Night Market Small Group Tour. It was really fun and the food was truly good. All of it!
Pork satay with peanut sauce was my favorite!
Noodle soup with duck. Liked the soup. Not the duck
Pumpkin, coconut pancakes. Also great!
There was food I didn’t photograph like Mango Sticky rice and some kind of iced fruit drink. It was all that good. Can’t wait to come back and try more.

Jose

AKA Alfred

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4 Responses

  1. Mario says:
    October 22, 2022 at 1:47 pm

    🤢🤮

    • Jose says:
      October 22, 2022 at 9:48 pm

      I normally don’t do food as a dare but I gave in to peer pressure. Honestly, it didn’t taste like anything.

  2. Nani says:
    October 22, 2022 at 2:56 pm

    You are a far more adventurous eater than I am!

    • Jose says:
      October 22, 2022 at 9:51 pm

      Our little group was fun so I joined in. Really and truly it tasted like nothing. Just crunchy.