Anything Tastes Good Deep Fried

You’ve seen it on fear factor and all the other travel shows, but it so different when you are face to face with your first beetle and all your peers are cheering you on to eat it. You wonder how to eat it, you wonder where the beetle has been and whether its been clean. But the sight of the super hot oil in the wok reassures you. Anything deep fried would be “sanitized” and good to eat. After all, it makes the soft crunchy, the dull shiny and the unedible edible.

 

I got my first taste in Phnom Penh, Cambodia near the river-side where the Royal Palace is. The night life in that area is interesting. All I tasted was oil and the hard crunchy shell of the bug. But after the first bite, you could be lucky and enjoy and creamy insides of the bug and feel it ooze out onto your tongue. Unfortunately, most are overfired and would have been dried out. Here’s a tip, remember to remove those little spiky legs from any bug you eat. You don’t want to nurse a irritated and painful throat caused by a piece of leg getting stuck in there.