Dear blog reader, would you like some deep-fried spider with your sautéed frog? Yes, those are real Cambodian specialties (actually we can’t remember how the frog is cooked, but it seems that they don’t just stick to the legs like the unadventurous French!) It may seem like enough to turn you vegetarian, but it hasn’t worked on the Cambodians. Vegetarianism is still pretty foreign to everyone who isn’t accustomed to Barang (foreign) visitors. So foreign is it, in fact, that when they do provide vegetarian food, it invariably includes some sort of mushroom/tofu/other fake meat, which is specially contrived to be as convincingly akin to meat as possible.
Wendy turned vegetarian long before she even heard of deep-fried spiders, and has always liked eating vegetables whenever she can find them. However when they’ve been trodden on by a chicken we both might find them less appetising - see this picture taken at a stall we saw on the street!
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