I lived in Thailand for three years. I think the strangest food I ate was Pla La (rotten fish), they make a spicy 15-30 raw chilli salad with green papaya, and fermented soft-shell crabs, add garlic, tomato, lime juice and dried shrimp, then add the pla la which is raw fish they have buried underground in a clay pot for a few weeks/months then dug up and used in this way, when I questioned people they thought cheese was a weird way of treating milk!! Its an acquired taste, but not wholly unpleasant. I've also eaten raw pig intestine, minced up with ground toasted rice, garlic, lime juice, chilli as Laab salad, again not so bad as the other ingredients cure the meat, then theres the bugs, roaches, worms, crickets, giant waterbeetles, scorpions, I've eaten them all. I stopped eating pla la when I found out you can get liver flukes, Laab salad in favour of Nam Tok salad as the meat is cooked, and bugs when I found out they kill them with insecticide. Life in the far-east is right good fun for someone into their food, but it pays to find out how they get it to your plate :) Ho hum I'm still here, very rarely got poorly and still able to anything I like :)
