In which case, try the Lonely Planet Guide to Thailand:

]]> http://www.cymeradwyo.com/travel/lonely-planet-thailand/feed/ 0 http://www.cymeradwyo.com/asia/how-would-like-your-rat-sir/ http://www.cymeradwyo.com/asia/how-would-like-your-rat-sir/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:14:23 +0000 Graham http://www.cymeradwyo.com/index.php/asia/how-would-like-your-rat-sir/ It has to be said, that although I haven’t tried these things myself, I’ve read and seen quite a bit about different animals being eaten in other parts of the world.

Being a fan of Bolivia, I’ve heard a lot about cuy, or guinea pigs, even though I never saw them offered for sale during my time there.

I also vividly remember Michael Palin on this 80 days trip travelling through China and eating snake.

But today an article caught my eye, that I just had to write about: eating rats.

It’s the sort of thing that I normally associate with starvation – eating rats as a last resort.  The siege of Stalingrad comes to mind.

So why is a popular tourist destination like Thailand suddenly serving up so many of the things?  The article doesn’t really offer much of an answer to that question – but there must be one.  How else could someone sell 100kg of rat meat in one day?  Come to think of it, that must be a large pile of rats to start off with.

They may say that it tastes better than chicken, but at the moment I’d rather not find out.