I fulfilled a childhood dream of eating a giant poisonous spider! ...Now I just have to check off becoming a Rock Star-Astronaut (I wonder if I can find that at a food cart as well?).
I’d searched all over Chang Mai one night and never found the bug guy. I got to eat a cricket on the slowboat to Laos. But a cricket, although still a bug, is not a big, scary poisonous bug. I needed to go all the way.
So when I stumbled upon this bug guy a couple afternoons ago, I had to go for it.
I asked the bug guy which tasted best. He said the tarantula. I’ll have to take his word for it. He told me the rear-end of it was the best because it’s where the oh so sweet eggs can be found! Yum.
But all the other options looked so tasty as well.
I asked bug guy to take a video of the momentous moment...
Ok, so a few things about bug guy’s camera work. First point, it needs work. He buried the lead! This video is about ME! It’s all about Travelman eating a bug! How does Travelman look as he first tastes the egg sac of a tarantula? We’ll never know! Because bug guy was more interested in his bug!
Imagine bug guy doing the camera work for the winning kick in overtime of the Super Bowl...
“And the ball is snapped, good hold, the kick is up! ...And let’s stay on those shoes the kicker is wearing. What are those? Nikes? Nice color he chose. We’re just going to hold on the shoes here for a few more moments. ...Oh, the kick? Yeah, it was good.”
I guess I can’t blame bug guy for being dedicated to his product.
The tarantula taste? There was more texture than taste, really. Although the mere thought of what I’d eaten made me slightly nauseated for the next hour. I did not finish my meal. I tried to give it away back at the hostel...
TRAVELMAN’S TRAVEL TIP NO. 55: Offering people in your hostel leftover tarantula is not the number one method of befriending said people of the hostel.
Just got back to Bangkok tonight, but have two more posts about Cambodia coming- A bike ride and Angkor Wat/a steemit meetup.
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