Strangest Food: &quot;Kamaru or Ricefield Crickets&quot;

@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

Really? Have you tried it?

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Lucky15 Wow! You have a strong stomach to eat it. Actually, I haven't tried it. I was being told about this insect. Did you eat this in Ilocos?

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Reine25

@Lucky15 (37374)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

@Shavkat yep. they have a nutty taste. nothing funky on the taste :)

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louievill

@louievill (28849)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

I have not tried eating crickets but I had eaten adobo " salagubang" or june beetles and its not bad at all, I would like to taste kamaru if I am offered some.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

Wow! That's also an exotic food and never seen it before. What does "salagubang" taste? According to @Lucky15 it tastes like nuts. June bugs really look weirder than eating kamarus. Image Credit: www.upublishme.com

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@louievill I think I need to be drunk before eating it.lol It is a good thing that my late grandpa never dare to cook such meal. He is from Nueva Ecija.

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Reine25

@Lucky15 (37374)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat this one too is yummy :)

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youless

@youless (113044)

• Guangzhou, China

19 Jul 17

I think every country has its own strange food and it all looks weird for foreigners. I don't know whether I will dare to try the insects if I ever travel your country, it is a challenge for me to try such a strange food

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youless

@youless (113044)

• Guangzhou, China

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat Although I come from Guangdong Province, but actually most of us hardly try strange food, such as turtle.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@youless Have you tried eating legs of frog? I had also seen some of my former Chinese colleagues in Guangdong love eating it.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

Even I cannot do it.lol I had tried a turtle soup in Guangdong province. For me, it is the strangest thing that I've tried during my stay there.

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Sreekala

@Sreekala (34312)

• India

19 Jul 17

I can't watch the picture then how can I eat such food.

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Sreekala

@Sreekala (34312)

• India

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat No no there is no strange food like this.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

@Sreekala Hahaha It is really strange to look such a kind of delicacy. It might lose our appetite so quickly. Is there any strange food in your country?

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Sai

@vsai2008 (11796)

• India

19 Jul 17

Same here Never can i imagine myself doing that

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Yadah

@Yadah04 (3374)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

yeah, you should try it. it is one of my most fave exotic deli.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I think I can bite and swallow kamaru.lol What does it taste?

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Yadah04 It seems like crunchy feeling. I will try if there is a chance. But I will not force myself.lol

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Yadah

@Yadah04 (3374)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat they are tasty actually. if you close your eyes, you wouldn't know it is an insecte more like tasting chips.

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Dollar Boy

@dollaboy (6048)

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19 Jul 17

Sounds Horrible to me

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

It sounds strange, right?

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Dollar Boy

@dollaboy (6048)

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20 Jul 17

@Shavkat of course fella

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@dollaboy

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joy

@MGjhaud (23239)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

I grew up in a farm but I have never tried this stuff haha.. nor have i ever heard my community eating crickets. I find it extreme. I hate anything that crawls or flies.

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joy

@MGjhaud (23239)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

yikes! I can't even think about it..

@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I was also surprised learning about it. I haven't seen it. What if somebody offered food without knowing that the main ingredients are mole crickets.

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Nawsheen

@Nawsheen (28642)

• Mauritius

19 Jul 17

I don't think that I will ever taste kamaru.

Some people eat wasps in my country. They fry it I guess

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Nawsheen

@Nawsheen (28642)

• Mauritius

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat Yes they fry it over here. I just can't understand how they can eat something like that. And in some countries they eat fried cockroaches too. I feel sick just thinking about it

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

Same here. I think my stomach will not withstand it or even try to bite a piece.lol It is also my first time to hear that wasps can be eaten, too. Thank you for sharing about it.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Nawsheen I do agree that some countries eat cultured-cockroaches. I also seen some exotic foods are in can now. Image Credit: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90717)

• Philippines

21 Jul 17

Either I, don't like those exotic foods. Also, those worms that live inside the trunks of trees that is a delicacy of a town here in the Philippines. Even the crocodile meat, I don't like those exotic foods.

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rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90717)

• Philippines

24 Jul 17

@Shavkat I don't care being "in" by eating those. Just like you, this is me too.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

24 Jul 17

@SIMPLYD

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

22 Jul 17

I do agree with you. Some of my friends will say that it's too corny not to try eating them. This is me and I don't want to force myself.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (473620)

• Switzerland

19 Jul 17

I am not tempted to try insects, even if in many countries different kind of insects are eaten. Not for me, at least for the moment.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I do agree on that. I will never try to try eating insects. I suddenly remembered Tarzan had eaten strange food in the forest.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (473620)

• Switzerland

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat I suspect that Tarzan had no choice.

Timea

@tzwrites (4835)

• Romania

20 Jul 17

I am also not tempted to try insects at all.

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S George

@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

19 Jul 17

I am not like to eat insects.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I haven't tried the food out of insects. I don't have any plans to try it.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@shshiju Are there any exotic foods in your country?

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S George

@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat But some places in India people eat this. As Reine mention it may yummy

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janice

@renicemae (4883)

• Philippines

19 Jul 17

I guess there are also strange foods in my country but I'm not interested. And like you, I wont dare eat it also. It's so eeeeeeewww!!

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

Since I grow up in the city, there are no strange foods had been offered to local people. I will not dare even if being offered huge money to eat it.

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janice

@renicemae (4883)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat

@dgobucks226 (36491)

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21 Jul 17

I remember a show where they made the contestants eat nasty insects like crickets, grasshoppers, things like that. I guess you have to eat that exotic food quickly before your brain figures out what you just ate

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (99482)

• United States

26 Mar

I'd rather leave it to the imagination, thank you very much. lol

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Neil Develos

@Neiltarquin (1062)

• Rass, Saudi Arabia

20 Jul 17

We use that as bait for snakehead in our province. I have my share of tasting weird delicacy. The only meat that I didn't bother to try was cat meat, and I want to kick the guy who killed the cat.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I don't eat cat's meat. I am sure Filipinos won't dare to kill a cat for food. During the old days, the elders love to eat dog's meat. But then, it was forbidden now.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

@Neiltarquin I heard about it. But I never tasted it.

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Neil Develos

@Neiltarquin (1062)

• Rass, Saudi Arabia

20 Jul 17

@Shavkat some would as pulutan, that's the annoying part.

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prashu

@prashu228 (37518)

• India

19 Jul 17

I watched some TV shows where they eat insects, no no..we don't have such strange food s here as far as I know

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I had read that some locals in your country eat frogs' legs. In China, they do also eat this and that includes my country, too. Is it true?

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (143749)

• Roseburg, Oregon

19 Jul 17

I would never eat any kind of bug. That is just gross.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

I cannot even look at it for a long time. How much more if I am going to eat it. I don't like to feel sick having them.

MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (84577)

• United States

20 Jul 17

Definitely NOT something I'd want to crunch into

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Jim Bauer

@porwest (99482)

• United States

26 Mar

The thought of it alone makes me shudder. lol

Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (318816)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

20 Jul 17

That's one I won't eat. I don't know of any strange foods.

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@Shavkat (140441)

• Philippines

20 Jul 17

There are so many strange foods that I had read about. I won't dare to eat it, too.lol I think China is a place where the local people eat strange foods ever. I am not judging but it is better to be aware that they do have such strange foods to offer.

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Dimbe

@David96 (165)

• Guwahati, India

19 Jul 17

Very strange. How people can eat this, I know this insect. It is found in paddy fields, we called it "khunti poka " khunti means digging holes and poka means insect.

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