Breaking the long journey at the side of the road to grab some
snacks is a little different in Cambodia!
I have a major fear of spiders
of any size, and deep fried or not they are still a source of nightmares.
What is even more scary than
this pile of tarantula’s nicely garnished is that in the white bucket
underneath them are 100's of real ones. Of course, I didn't realise that
or I wouldn't have been close enough to take this picture.
Apparently, they are a great
snack and our tour guides wife craved them when she was pregnant and would call
him up asking him to pick some up on his way home.
A couple of the group tried
them - they had imagined them to be hairy still, but their weren’t, and
disappointingly they didn't spit them out but just swallowed them as if it was
nothing unusual.
There were an assortment of
other fried bugs, cockroaches, lava, crickets etc for purchase. I
stuck with a nice fresh mango instead!
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