Petite on Board | Cambodia

#cambodia #insecteating #protein

Bon's introduction to fried-spider eating:

Step 1: camera eat first

Step 2: Try the fluffy legs x 8

Step 3: The core, the brain, the heart

and all that juice (ewwwwwww)

Proudly present here, BON

a.k.a. my travel buddy to Angkor Wat.

I am not a person with OCD, but to be fair, I would never try food from raw market in poor hygiene condition, flies everywhere and damppy-wetly floor. Since Bon was born and raised in Malaysia, so for him, this is practically nothing special comparing to the suburb village at home. So he made an executive decision to pick one of the hawkers in the market for our first meal in Cambodia. Puff....seriously, the dishes are damn cheap here and 'local'. The word 'authentic' doesn't feel quite right for this situation, it just taste very 'local', ermmmm or may be 'down to earth'? Whatever.

After all, both of us do share similar skin colour with the locals, perhaps we were just here finding our lost-cambodian' roots.

(On the left) We even randomly pointed to some colourful sweets and ordered a bowl of sweet soup as dessert. Is kinda look like fruit loops and Haribos served in a bowl of coconut water.

We sunbathed, we cycled, but most importantly we ate insects for our very first time. Along the main road to the night market, you could easily spot hawkers selling fried insects in every 5m. However, we didn't go for the option of buying a pack of unknown insects directly from those hawkers. Instead, we interviewed a young lady and asked her to show us how to eat. She described the culture of eating fried-cockroaches is the same with people who have peanuts while drinking beer. Okayyyyy, I tried. Is actually taste like some kind of salty crisps (neglecting the texture of testicles and legs!)

And obviously, Bon would like to intake more protein than I do. He went on to stage 2 (frog).. nope...stage 3 (cricket) and beyond. SPIDER!!!!!! I personally hate spider, even spiderwebs would freak me out and give me goosebumps.