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HKG2003102105126
RAYONG, THAILAND: A Thai waiter wears a fright while displaying a plate of fried lizard at Shock Legend restaurant in Rayong province east of Bangkok 06 May 2002. An array of once-wriggling reptiles and arachnids is on the menu of a new Thai restaurant seeking to cash in on the country's appetite for the unusual, the owner of the restaurant said the reptiles served up by his "experienced chefs" were also prominent ingredients in traditional Thai medicines. Eating wild animals and insects in Asia is not considered all that extraordinary. There are a number of these foods which in some cases have become delicacies which date back many years and have now almost become traditional eating being prepared and cooked in many different ways using herbs, spices, ginger and garlic to enhance flavours. Some restaurants even have dishes of some animals as their main drawcard and is considered a normal cuisine. The Japanese love their whale meat and pufferfish, Cambodians are known to eat tarantulas-hairy spiders, while a number of other cultures incourage the eating of rats, snakes, bugs, beetles, monkeys (brains), crocodile, bats, scorpions, honey ants, grubs, embroyo eggs and many more. AFP PHOTO/Pornchai KITTIWONGSAKUL (Photo credit should read PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images)
HKG2003102105126
RAYONG, THAILAND: A Thai waiter wears a fright while displaying a plate of fried lizard at Shock Legend restaurant in Rayong province east of Bangkok 06 May 2002. An array of once-wriggling reptiles and arachnids is on the menu of a new Thai restaurant seeking to cash in on the country's appetite for the unusual, the owner of the restaurant said the reptiles served up by his "experienced chefs" were also prominent ingredients in traditional Thai medicines. Eating wild animals and insects in Asia is not considered all that extraordinary. There are a number of these foods which in some cases have become delicacies which date back many years and have now almost become traditional eating being prepared and cooked in many different ways using herbs, spices, ginger and garlic to enhance flavours. Some restaurants even have dishes of some animals as their main drawcard and is considered a normal cuisine. The Japanese love their whale meat and pufferfish, Cambodians are known to eat tarantulas-hairy spiders, while a number of other cultures incourage the eating of rats, snakes, bugs, beetles, monkeys (brains), crocodile, bats, scorpions, honey ants, grubs, embroyo eggs and many more. AFP PHOTO/Pornchai KITTIWONGSAKUL (Photo credit should read PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images)