Yuen Mi

Thank you for the warm welcome (and the lead in)! I love trying all kinds of food in general, but right now, I am obsessed with Korean food. So lately, I've been reading and cooking a lot of Korean fermented food. They have such a wide variety and the flavours vary so much. I love it. I have a Cambodian food blog, and I wanted to write a post on one of the new recipe I'm working on so I'm doing a background check on the history of the ingredients etc. etc. What I know of Cambodian food are what I learn from my mother but I want to get more in-depth, thorough information because it's a cuisine that's very obscure, even in the Asian community.

Hey, everyone. New member here. Somehow found this forum while doing some food research. I'm not very good at introduction, but I just wanted to say Hi.

My family lives in rural Cambodia and I will tell you now, we do not eat rats. Most people I know do not eat rat. Even my family in Ratanakiri do not eat rats, and they live practically in the jungle. The last time I remember someone catching rats was when I was in a refugee camp in Thailand, and a couple of Laotians came to our 'place' and asked if they can catch the rats that are plaguing us. So we let them, and they opened a bonfire in front of the house and cooked the caught rat right then and there. I would be shocked to see rats being sold in the countryside of Cambodia. We do eat crickets and other bugs though. They're pretty good, but we definitely do not tarantulas. They're for sale on the roadside, but it's mostly for show (to foreigners).