Beating Snake Hearts, Creepy Crawlies and Frog Guts: SE Asia’s Gory Gastronomy.

I’ve eaten python, but never bit the beating heart out of a snake!

Small World BIG Mouth

In the Spirit of Halloween I’ve decided to conjure up all the deadly delicacies I consumed around South-East Asia. I vowed to myself to try  EVERYTHING, no matter the colour, texture or life-form, however revolting or repulsive it may be. If the locals eat it, then you must eat it, I thought. Unlike England, food is central to culture in Asia, so I wanted to understand this by tasting everything. Eating was educating. However, this did result in me consuming some rather scary snacks with blood, slime, claws and a few too many legs. In fact my round-up isn’t a far cry (or scream)  away from a witches spell-book…

Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,

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