Today was the last day with our guide in Siem Reap. We started the day out on Ton Lesap Lake to see the floating village. These people are some of the poorest Cambodians; the live in floating shantys. Their only source of income is bartering and selling fish to locals who boat in. Next, Jan wanted to hit up the local art school, Artisans Angkor. It was pretty neat to see how the students worked in each of the crafts; wood carving, stone carving, silk painting, oil painting and silk weaving. Then we went to the silk farm and factory…to my surprise it was actually very interesting. We were able to view people working on each part of the process from harvesting the silk worms, to unraveling their cocoons, to dying the silk and then finally weaving the silk into various items.
Afterwards I grabbed a few appetizers with our Brem, our guide. We stopped at a roadside BBQ for frog satay. Actually pretty good, mainly because they fill the body cavity with spiced rice. Next we drove around looking for stir fried crickets and other bettles and bugs. I popped a few small crickets but just couldn’t muster the guts to down the big juicy looking ones. They were like chewing on several sunflower shells; kind of stringy and absolutely no juice squirting anywhere like I expected.
We parted with our guide…spent the rest of the early evening cruising around the area near our hotel…I found a bottle of wine and Leffe Bruin!! Not sure how the beer will taste since its “freshness date” is 11.07. But hey…why not?
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I wouldn't worry too much about beer freshness after eating crickets.
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