Bugs!

One Cambodian delicacy is bugs. Seriously. This surprises me, as Cambodians started eating bugs during the Khmer Rouge when they were starving to death, and that's all they had to eat. Now, they're considered a delicacy and are expensive. (This may gross you out) Sometimes, they cut open an animal to attract the bugs. We also see plastic bags attached to a stick in the fields. They put a light on the stick to attract them, and then they get stuck in the bag. So, you can imagine my predicament when the little orphan children served me a lunch that included meet in a sauce filled with bugs. Ants, bees, and something else with big wings. Gross. I told them it looked delicious, then carefully removed the bugs from the meat. Then, I filled up on rice (which may or may not have been much better) and offered any left over pieces of meet and bugs to the chickens and dogs running around beneath my feet. The meet (and sauce) had a surprisingly good flavor. I hope to have avoided any bugs in the process, but one can never be too sure. The things we experience!