Want to get over your fear of something? Eat it.
After completing my mission of finding an insect food cart in Chiang Mai, it’s finally time to expand my 6-legged palate.
In order of consumption:
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Small Cricket (Acheta Domestica)
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Black Ant (Polyrhachis)
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Ant Ball (Have Any Ideas?)
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Big Cricket (Gryllus Bimaculatus)
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Sago Worm Larvae (Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus)
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Silkworm Larvae (Bombyx Mori)
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Cicada (Auchenorrhyncha)
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Queen Weaver Ant (Oecophylla)
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Diving Beetle (Dytiscidae)
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Giant Cricket (Brachytrupes Portentosus)
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Lobster Leg (Acheta Domestica)
A Platter of Thailand's Finest

In my short experience, eating insects seems to be more of a tourist gimmick or ingredient for a creative cuisine than a common snack. Stand next to a cart serving up insects and you’ll even see even Thais pointing in shock at some of the editable creepy crawlers (mostly younger folk). Though I have a hunch that once I get out of bigger cities into farmlands, where the pests naturally flourish in crops, eating insects would be more of a common and convenient food source.
You’re a pioneer dude, this is so cool. Can’t wait to see the farm!
I want to try the cheeto bugito. Umyumm