Thailand ~ Eating Live Stuff...

My friend Goodstuff has been showing me around and feeding me. I am having so much fun here in Thailand, but they eat some weird stuff. I kinda want a hamburger...

~Goodstuffs Blog~

LIL ZEEBERS was invited to party with the bad boys and wanted to help with the shopping...

 Zeebers agreed that this was not really beer food but wanted a sugar rush...

Zeebers wanted to get the puppy dogs some beer snacks so that they would not feel left out

We bought a new clay pot to make a special Thai dish just for Zeebers

Dancing Shirmps, (goong dten [กู้งเต้น])

so good and so good for you!

You might think that’s just a fancy name for the dish until you realize it’s literal.  Yes the shrimp are actually dancing!  How so?  Basically they are scooped right out of a fish tank where they are swimming around and plunked right into a pot.  Then they are immediately mixed with a sauce mainly consisting of chili peppers.  So yeah, they’re dancing alright.  You probably would be too if you were suffocating while having chilies smeared all over your body. Anyway, Zeebers try not to think about their torture as he considered   they’re very small, just babies, with head, tail, antennae, everything. 

 This morning he was a little worried about the grass shrimp. He was essentially eating raw seafood, from maybe some dirty water.  

กุ้งเต้น

Goong Dten

(Dancing Shrimps)

Prepare:

2 cups small (live) freshwater shrimp

5 cloves garlic (sliced)

2 lemongrasses (sliced thinly)

2 tbsp. sliced scallion

2 tbsp. sliced coriander

2 tbsp. sliced mud onion

4 tsp. dried pepper powder

3 tbsp. lemon juice

2 tbsp. fish sauce

prepare - it's and easy dish

1) put the live grass shrimp in the clay pot and cover. Careful, they will be jumping around

2) mix all the other ingredients. See, easy. No need for cooking

3) Torture the baby shrimps by adding the mixture to the clay pot and give it a good shake. 

4) Listen to the clay pot. when you hear that the aren't banging their heads against walls (like popcorn), it's time to chow down!  Bon apetit!