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By that enigmatic headline, I mean the reverse of BobFossil, and her post below.

I visited Cambodia a couple of years ago. I tend to be quite adventurous in my eating, and always prefer to eat alongside the locals. My travelling companions on this occasion, though, were not as eager as I. When in Siem Reap, they adverted to the FCC for all their evening meals; I decided to go off and find somewhere else.

On the way to wherever - in this case, a lovely little restaurant, popular with locals - I passed a handcart selling snacks. Hungry, I bought a little prawn fritter thingy.

In retrospect, even though I have a fairly iron stomach most of the time, eating shellfish kept warm by a lightbulb and sold from a filthy handcart mightn't have been the wisest move. For the following week - until after I'd got home - I was... um... a little squitty. I got away with it - just - but there was no way I was going to miss out on Angkor Wat. I'd have happily walked around with my thumb up my jacksie to stop the flow had that been called for...


Did I really say "happily" there?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 13:47, 8 replies)

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Yeah, I'm an adventurous eater too, that was the only western meal I had for the entire trip! To be honest, I'd have had to be maimed or crippled to be prevented from going to Angkor (and even then I'd have given it a damn good try), it's just one of those things one should not pass up on.

Especially drinking coffee sweetened with condensed milk at dawn, watching the sunrise over the main temple. That was truly awesome.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:10, closed)

ha!
"I have no stories for this week," claims Enzyme, and then proceeds to come up with quite a few choice delicacies.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:12, closed)

"Choice delicacies"?
You do have exotic tastes, don't you, Dr Ceilidhband?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:16, closed)

yes
hand me another rock-cake, would you? And maybe some wine?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:22, closed)

I went to Thailand a few years ago.....
Spent 10 days on the beach at a 3 star hotel eating fries and cheese sandwiches and one pad thai.

I was with my mother and teenage sister so a trip in the jungle would not have been a good idea.

Had no tummy troubles, suprisingly.
( girlinthehole, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:33, closed)

I spent three weeks in a hut on a beach in Thailand.
only had tummy trouble when I made the mistake of eating something that was made from fried pork, lemons and chillis.

I got gutrot in cambodia from some dodgy water I bought of a small child in Angkor. Same week as I managed to visit a brothel by accident.
( Bazongaloid, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:39, closed)

althegeordie...
Visiting a brothel by accident? The spirit of pulling an Enzyme (qv) lives on!


*heads off to UrbanDictionary.com to add an entry*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:53, closed)

yeah
thats a story for another day.
( Bazongaloid, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 15:35, closed)