{"id":8266,"date":"2014-06-03T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T03:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2014-06-03T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T05:01:15","slug":"deep-fried-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/deep-fried-insects","title":{"rendered":"Deep Fried Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Deep-fried-insects.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Deep-fried-insects-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Deep fried insects\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Deep-fried-insects-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Deep-fried-insects.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This one is most certainly not for the light hearted. For anyone brave enough to try them, believe it or not, these fried insect snacks have much in common with a bag of potato chips.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re greasy and tasty, they\u2019re cheap and go great with a bottle of beer! They also have that exotic element that you just don\u2019t get with potato chips, having six legs and eight eyes looking right at you!<\/p>\n<p>Vendors often have a variety of these greasy, salted snacks on offer, ranging from tiny grubs and grasshoppers, to big ugly beetles and mean looking scorpions, all served with a sprinkling of ants for good measure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spicy? <\/strong>No<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to Buy: <\/strong>Vendors<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: <\/strong>20 Baht for one bag<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eat With: <\/strong>A cold beer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Tip<\/strong>: When you eat the bigger beetles and grasshoppers, do as the Thais do and pull the legs off first, they\u2019re kind of crunchy and not so tasty!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/more-weird-food-of-thailand-insect-dishes-2\" target=\"_blank\">More Weird Food of Thailand &#8211; Insect dishes<\/a> (bangkokbeyond.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is most certainly not for the light hearted. For anyone brave enough to try them, believe it or not, these fried insect snacks have much in common with a bag of potato chips. They\u2019re greasy and tasty, they\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[604],"tags":[258,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}