2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The culinary preferences of people around the world are different and this is nothing new to anyone. All sorts of strange dishes can be found in the kitchens of different nations, but there are still some limits to people's taste preferences. At least that's what we guess.
It turns out that we can be very wrong in our judgment. Dishes around the world can contain virtually anything. IN Cambodia you will have a cheap breakfast with one juicy rat. It sounds shocking, but not to Cambodians. Road stalls in the western parts of this Asian country sell grilled rats with charcoal. A lover of strange eating, named Yit Sarin, raised the curtain on the taste of this delicacy. According to him, the rat, stuffed with rice and drizzled with beer, had excellent taste.
In the rural Cambodian provinces, the dish has its fans, mostly because it is a quick and cheap breakfast. They cost only 25 cents. Large specimens, however, go with another dollar on top.
When did the rodent enter the menu of the Cambodians, is an issue that deserves attention. It turns out that this is not some ancient recipe passed down from generation to generation over the centuries, but a tradition of only about half a century. The forced invention of the population dates back to the time of the Khmer Rouge regime - a red terrorist regime directed against the intelligentsia and the urban population. Then the Cambodians have to find ways to survive and rodents, along with frogs and tarantulas, enter the menu.
In the present rats are just an option to have a cheap lunch, which is used mainly by workers and the rural population.
Of interest is the taste of the meat of the Polish inhabitants. Yit Sarin, the Cambodian, who does not hesitate to order a roast rat, says that his meat is like chicken or beef, and others liken it to pork.
Buyers of exotic food are not missing, as well the grilled rat can also be drizzled with lime juice or hot peppers.
According to one of the stall saleswomen for roasted rats this unusual food has recently become a favorite, selling 20 kilograms of roasted rat meat a day.
There are not many curious foreigners who decide to try this strangeness of the Asian country. Rats are the most sold for the Cambodian New Year. 180 families a day add one juicy rodent to their holiday menu.
The saleswoman's explanation sounds strange to our European understanding, but it is interesting to learn. Rats caught in rice fields are even healthier than chicken and pork because they eat only lotus roots and rice grains.
For those who definitely want to try their taste, it will probably sound reassuring, but for most people it is an exotic that they are unlikely to try.
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