Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
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Maybe you consider eating a turtle is a sin but I know loads of Cambodians out in the provinces having different thoughts. I even know some farms where the turtles are grown for consumption.IFLstudent wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:57 am Must be tabarang actually does have some misconception of what local actually eats. To tell you the truth, for example, it's pretty much committed a sin when consuming a turtle. However, turtle dishes is norm because it nets higher profits from tabarang and maybe tabarang loves trying new things .
Cambodia is a pretty large country, with different ideas and opinions in different parts of the country. Your (Phnom Penh based?) views might not reflect the thoughts of all Cambodians.
Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
Again, you're probably a city-kind-of person.IFLstudent wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:57 am Back to the question what does the local eats, which is considered as cultural shock to foreigners? Dog meats. It's popular near liquor store, and it's pretty much standard appetite alcoholic beverages and side-dishes for bozo. That's why I underlined the "booming market". Well, you got one thing is that article is 4 years old.
Visit a local market in the boonies, and you will find sellers selling dog-chopped-to-pieces for 20-30k per KG.
When my dog was hit by a car, and dying, the bidding process for the corpse started before the animal was even fully dead. There's a big market for 'special meat', and it's not just the Vietnamese and Chinese partaking in the meal. Loads of Khmer's like it too, though far from all I have to admit.
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Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
Formerly disgusting mice are now for sale
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September 2, 2019
Kompong Chhnang: Formerly disgusting mice [rats] are now being sold almost daily and they have become a popular commodity for everyday consumption and are no longer considered disgusting.
A woman who buys the rats in Kampong Chhnang said that every morning she came to weigh in and buy rats sold by the villagers on the river. In just one morning she can deal in 70 kilograms to 100 kilograms of rats. General prices are from 7000-10,000 riel a kilo. Rat catchers usually take up their trade when they are not fishing or farming.
Rats are seen for sale in the market in Kampong Chhnang and elsewhere, and they are a popular food for locals as roasted or fried meat.
Rats are eaten all year round but, but the meat is most delicious in the rainy season. People say that the rats from the countryside are clean animals living on grass roots, rice, wild fruits, and some crops, but that the town rats are disgusting.
[Original headline]
September 2, 2019
Kompong Chhnang: Formerly disgusting mice [rats] are now being sold almost daily and they have become a popular commodity for everyday consumption and are no longer considered disgusting.
A woman who buys the rats in Kampong Chhnang said that every morning she came to weigh in and buy rats sold by the villagers on the river. In just one morning she can deal in 70 kilograms to 100 kilograms of rats. General prices are from 7000-10,000 riel a kilo. Rat catchers usually take up their trade when they are not fishing or farming.
Rats are seen for sale in the market in Kampong Chhnang and elsewhere, and they are a popular food for locals as roasted or fried meat.
Rats are eaten all year round but, but the meat is most delicious in the rainy season. People say that the rats from the countryside are clean animals living on grass roots, rice, wild fruits, and some crops, but that the town rats are disgusting.
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Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
Never heard that one, about "Cambodians" committing a sin by eating turtles.Kammekor wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 4:34 pmMaybe you consider eating a turtle is a sin but I know loads of Cambodians out in the provinces having different thoughts. I even know some farms where the turtles are grown for consumption.IFLstudent wrote: ↑Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:57 am To tell you the truth, for example, it's pretty much committed a sin when consuming a turtle.
And like Kammekor said - it is quite common.
However it is definitely a sin for some Cambodians - turtle and tortoise are not Halal, so the Muslims do not eat them.
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Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
In Takeo, Migrant Families Turn to Rat Trade Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
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Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
| Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:00 am
KOH ANDET DISTRICT, Takeo — It is late July in Takeo province, as Lor Sam Ath opens a large, neon orange cooler, removing a massive slab of ice. The Takeo resident then proceeds to hack away at the slab, icy shards flying in every direction as he carves pieces of ice the size of a grapefruit.
The bare-chested man inserts a hunk of ice into each of the 10 large, wire-mesh cages in his front yard. Each cage is packed to the brim with squirming — and a few dead — rice field rats. The ice allows the rodents to stay hydrated and survive the journey to neighboring Vietnam where they will be sold.
Sam Ath and his wife Tum Sok are among the many brokers who collect rats caught by villagers in Takeo’s Koh Andet district. During the rainy season, the rising waters in the rice fields surrounding the district provide an ample supply of palm-sized, gray rodents.
The rats, which usually feed on rice stalks, are then exported to Vietnam, where they are cooked up and consumed. A number of villagers are coy when asked about the exported rats’ fates, with only Sam Ath loudly exclaiming: “They eat them!”
Sok, 48, says they had to stop buying rats from villagers in April and early May because the Vietnamese border was closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was only in late May, she says, that they could resume sending live rats across the border, either by road or small waterways. After restarting their business, Sok and Sam Ath, 51, say they have seen an increase in people catching rats and selling the rodents to the various brokers in their district.
“There are many people who are now selling rats because they do not have any employment to buy food,” Sok says.
“There is too much supply,” Sok explains. “As long as they catch, we will buy, but if our buyers in Vietnam don’t buy then we cannot.” Prices, she says, have dropped from 5,000 riel (around $1.25) a kilogram to 4,500 riel ($1.10) during the monsoon season, which started in May.
Sok says there has been an increase in people catching rats in the district, mostly because many have been out of work and have had few employment opportunities since the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic — except for work in the rice fields.
“It is helpful for the villagers,” Sok says, referring to the rat trade. “They can at least earn 10,000 riel ($2.50) to 15,000 ($ 3.75) riel a day.”
https://vodenglish.news/in-takeo-migran ... -pandemic/
10 min read
Mech Dara and Ananth Baliga
| Mon Aug 17, 2020 11:00 am
KOH ANDET DISTRICT, Takeo — It is late July in Takeo province, as Lor Sam Ath opens a large, neon orange cooler, removing a massive slab of ice. The Takeo resident then proceeds to hack away at the slab, icy shards flying in every direction as he carves pieces of ice the size of a grapefruit.
The bare-chested man inserts a hunk of ice into each of the 10 large, wire-mesh cages in his front yard. Each cage is packed to the brim with squirming — and a few dead — rice field rats. The ice allows the rodents to stay hydrated and survive the journey to neighboring Vietnam where they will be sold.
Sam Ath and his wife Tum Sok are among the many brokers who collect rats caught by villagers in Takeo’s Koh Andet district. During the rainy season, the rising waters in the rice fields surrounding the district provide an ample supply of palm-sized, gray rodents.
The rats, which usually feed on rice stalks, are then exported to Vietnam, where they are cooked up and consumed. A number of villagers are coy when asked about the exported rats’ fates, with only Sam Ath loudly exclaiming: “They eat them!”
Sok, 48, says they had to stop buying rats from villagers in April and early May because the Vietnamese border was closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was only in late May, she says, that they could resume sending live rats across the border, either by road or small waterways. After restarting their business, Sok and Sam Ath, 51, say they have seen an increase in people catching rats and selling the rodents to the various brokers in their district.
“There are many people who are now selling rats because they do not have any employment to buy food,” Sok says.
“There is too much supply,” Sok explains. “As long as they catch, we will buy, but if our buyers in Vietnam don’t buy then we cannot.” Prices, she says, have dropped from 5,000 riel (around $1.25) a kilogram to 4,500 riel ($1.10) during the monsoon season, which started in May.
Sok says there has been an increase in people catching rats in the district, mostly because many have been out of work and have had few employment opportunities since the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic — except for work in the rice fields.
“It is helpful for the villagers,” Sok says, referring to the rat trade. “They can at least earn 10,000 riel ($2.50) to 15,000 ($ 3.75) riel a day.”
https://vodenglish.news/in-takeo-migran ... -pandemic/
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Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
I got woken up by a rat on my face whilst staying at a hotel in Vinh.
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Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market
As food prices rise, and meat such as chicken and pork becomes more expensive, Cambodians are turning to alternative sources of meat for their protein.
Cambodia News, Battambang: Muy Roeun, a former migrant construction worker in Thailand, has been raising rats for more than two years now. He started raising rats in 2019 to sell to those who like rat meat as food, and he also sells his rats to other breeders.
Today, rat meat is very popular among people who like to eat it; it can be cooked in many ways, like roasted, BBQ, or fried with vegetables and so on.
Mr. Muy Roeun said that he had previously worked as a construction worker in Thailand in 2015, when he learned how to breed rats so when he returned, he started experimenting with raising rats for meat. He set up his own farm called "Sovanrachna" in Suon Sla village, Kdol Ta Hen commune, Bor Vel district, Battambang province.
Cambodia News, Battambang: Muy Roeun, a former migrant construction worker in Thailand, has been raising rats for more than two years now. He started raising rats in 2019 to sell to those who like rat meat as food, and he also sells his rats to other breeders.
Today, rat meat is very popular among people who like to eat it; it can be cooked in many ways, like roasted, BBQ, or fried with vegetables and so on.
Mr. Muy Roeun said that he had previously worked as a construction worker in Thailand in 2015, when he learned how to breed rats so when he returned, he started experimenting with raising rats for meat. He set up his own farm called "Sovanrachna" in Suon Sla village, Kdol Ta Hen commune, Bor Vel district, Battambang province.
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Re: Rat Meat: A Growing Market by Kevin Doyle
The list of diseases directly transmitted by rodents is quite extensive.
work is for people who cant find truffles
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