What are those little salted shells?
What are those little salted shells?
I see them on flat carts all the time and have no idea what they are.
I'm guessing some type of food, but how the hell do you eat them and what are they?
I'm guessing some type of food, but how the hell do you eat them and what are they?
Diarrhoea pills.finy wrote:I see them on flat carts all the time and have no idea what they are.
I'm guessing some type of food, but how the hell do you eat them and what are they?
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With high notes of hepatitis and a clean finish of typhoid.epidemiks wrote:Diarrhoea pills.finy wrote:I see them on flat carts all the time and have no idea what they are.
I'm guessing some type of food, but how the hell do you eat them and what are they?
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They are blood clams. I don't care for them too much at all but I've never been sick from eating them, regardless of the fact that they've been hiked around the streets on a trolley all day.
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Blood clams
Seafood that has been sweltering in the sun all day? I always wondered if the sellers are a bit like prostitutes in that they might skip between PP and SNV when the going gets hot.
i'm guessing they must be heavily salted?
Blood clams
Seafood that has been sweltering in the sun all day? I always wondered if the sellers are a bit like prostitutes in that they might skip between PP and SNV when the going gets hot.
i'm guessing they must be heavily salted?
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...And according to local beliefs, are raised on a diet of menstrual blood (not a joke).Lucky Lucan wrote:They are blood clams
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Not blood clams, freshwater clams. Called "leas" in Khmer. The blood clams are "gneav".
They are salted and spiced and sort of cooked in their juice by baking under the sun. Locals love those with a tamarind dipping sauce.
You open them with your teeth or with another half shell, then dip the half shell in the sauce and slurp it.
They are salted and spiced and sort of cooked in their juice by baking under the sun. Locals love those with a tamarind dipping sauce.
You open them with your teeth or with another half shell, then dip the half shell in the sauce and slurp it.
I ate a rancid one when i first got here and it just about put me off seafood for life.
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There's a couple of types and they taste ok.
It's just not worth the effort opening them. I compare it to pulling a bird and taking her clothes off only to discover she's got tiny titties.
It's just not worth the effort opening them. I compare it to pulling a bird and taking her clothes off only to discover she's got tiny titties.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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This. Tried them a few years ago and got really sick. Still like seafood but no more whatever-they-are clams for me.ricecakes wrote:I ate a rancid one when i first got here and it just about put me off seafood for life.
just DO NOT DO IT
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The ones on trolleys i always see look like 1cm winkles with salt and chilli sprinkled over them.
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They sound like food poisoning waiting to happen.
Thanks for letting me know to stay away.
Thanks for letting me know to stay away.
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What a bunch of softies.
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I had food poisoning from mussels once (not in Cambodia); I almost croaked.Lucky Lucan wrote:What a bunch of softies.
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