Thursday, August 28, 2008

Rat meat: Staple food for poor Cambodians ... living under the prosperous Hun Sen regime

San Smey eats a piece of roasted rat in the provincial town of Battambang, Cambodia, February 19, 2004. (Chor Sokunthea/Reuters)
Cambodian shoppers search through rodent meat at a market in the provincial town of Battambang, approximately 290 km (181 miles) northwest of the capital Phnom Penh in this file photo.The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday. (Chor Sokunthea/Reuters)

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

LATER ON WILL BE HUMAN MEAT! GOD BLESS CAMBODIA! UNDER THE SMARTEST PERSON LEADERSHIP!

Anonymous said...

5:48

Don't be so stupid!! The damn article make it look bad than it is by calling it rat. It's not the dirty rats found in household and garbage dump, it's a RICE FIELD muskrat.

Anonymous said...

from 1975 to 1979, i used to eat rats. when i was staying in Otaki, Battambang i used to catch hundreds a night. it was quite nice like chicken but i was starving at the time. you're right field rats should be alright for cosumtion.

Anonymous said...

That's HUN SEN regime.

Anonymous said...

However it is a dirty animal that everybody should not eat. In china, million of rat killed evry year and they do not eat it. Nowadays regime is worst than pol pot regime 1000 times. For me i don not eat even a piece. This is Hun Sen's regime.

Anonymous said...

REMEMBER HUNSEN USED TO SAY: THE DRAGON (HIM) HAS POWER AND THE SNAKE(SIHAMINI) ON THE THRONE, THE COUNTRY PROSPERS! NOW WE ALL SEE CAMBODIAN EAT RAT MEAT THE FIRST TIME IN CAMBODIA HISTORY...LATER ON PEOPLE EAT RAT SHIT...STILL GOOD...LATER HUMAN MEAT...AND LATER HUMAN SHIT...STILL GOOD...WOW!PROSPER MY ASS!

Anonymous said...

Hey no wonder Ah Thai looks down on khmer! after rat meat what else?...dog penis?...or horse shit? still deicious right!

Anonymous said...

After rat we'll Thai liver.
Delicious alright!

Anonymous said...

You know this site never says anything good about Cambodia. Always this wrong, that wrong. Always always wrong. Well, mister high class, Khmer farmers eat these kinds of food all the time. Maybe you once did too but since you now live in the land of the rich and free, you forgot where you came from. A person that forgets his root isn't going anywhere in life

Anonymous said...

Cambodia economics growth is 10-15%, whereas the inflation is at 37%. You do the math. Today rat meat for dinner. Tomorrow??? The viet suck Khmer resource dry, and Khmer still vote for CPP. Are we brainless people. It appears so...

Anonymous said...

If you end up byiyng rat meat from the city, you 'd better watch out! Most people know, germ in rat can make you really sick with blood flowing out from the base of every hair on your skin. sounds scary, you'll have to see for yourself. In the meantime, most who have survived the KR's regime knew well that rats' meat in the rice field tast pretty dawn good and it keep them alived til this day. So folk, enjoy it in the meantime! Those rats' meat had been tested and experimented by a real human being. You're o.k. Just don't pick up the wrong rats' meat. Make sure you buy them from the farmer you know. You'll be alright. Trust the one that slaughtered it by hands. The are the one to die first or just stay out from it!

Anonymous said...

This could change the perception of those scientist fast. See 7:23pm's comment. It also showed how most of us could survive the horror of killing field and believe it or not, we ate them lived thru it and still here. Again rats in Cambodia then ate rice. Their homes are at the rice field. They are rice's rats. So you still have to be careful folk!