New species in Lao kebab inspires $1million prize

Ronald says:

Sounds tasty.

pipelayer says:

Mmm-mmmm, nuthin' like "American naturalist on a skewer". Now wonder he was red-faced!

Mr Lucky says:

Porcupine is my Isaan wife's absolute favorite food.

No joke. She says it's delicious and she actually drools when one shows up on the Discovery Channel.

thebamboorat says:

We Aussies much prefer the Lao Root Rat.

tatt2dude says:

As you seem quite "chatty" with the boys at McD any news on the Mc Bumble Bee bat quarter pounders?

I for one eagerly await this promotion.

gonzo says:

I love it how "science" takes itself so seriously -- this animal wasn't discovered. The Lao people had been eating it for years, seems to me they knew they had food. "Science" here was just ignorant of other cultures, but they certainly did not discover anything, maybe they, western culture, became aware of it -- this only shows the attitude "we are everything" kind of like the fat guy at the end of the bar.

My bargirl friend and I live with our pet Yeti, but they haven't labeled me yet. So,like an Indian waiting for Columbus, am I discovered yet? Can I exist independently of you?

I'm hungry...think I'll go eat something.

Gourmet says:

Yes please !!!

When will they be available in Tesco Lotus ?? Nice in some Mango Sauce, perhaps !!

chicagobob says:

Nothing to do with this thread, but is anyone else having problems accessing www.2thebigmango.com? Every time I try to go in there, it tells me that "Microsoft has detected a problem and needs to close". Maybe one of you, more tech-savvy guys could figure it out and let me know, thanks.

Andy says:

Reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch when the vendor is selling "rats on a stick" at the medieval jousting contest.

Yummy...

Grunt says:

Oh God...so boring.

All we need now is some long tedious post by little miss dicer and this one would cure all known cases of insomnia.

Rick H. says:

So what are you saying? EVERY article here has to center around go go bar girls (or Keith Summers vs. Stickman) or its boring to you? Aren't there enough websites based exclusively on that or similar subjects? I give the author some credit for mixing it up a bit.

What have YOU got to offer?

Dicer says:

Good points Gonzo.

Its all about the ME FIRST and ME ONLY cultures... and dodgy food of course.

Looper says:

I'd like to see Boy George lubing up a Lao Rock Rat and trying get that mean looking critter up his backside. I reckon he'd have a fight on his hands.

If he succeeds he would certainly look funny with just that incongrouously furry tail hanging out. Handy for getting a good grasp for retrieval though, during which its disproportionately large head might present something of a hurdle.

Good luck George!

Dana says:

Regarding the above comment by Looper:

David, if you knew about this and allowed it than shame on you. If you did not know about this and you are just now reviewing it for the first time than you have an opportunity to remove it.

This nonsense has nothing to do with the subject.

pipelayer says:

what Dana said.

Looper says:

Hi Dana,

That joke/subject was covered by an episode of Southpark which broadcast on free to air before 9pm so I didn't think it was too distasteful for our beloved Mangosauce.

Anyway, no offence intended mate. I have read and enjoyed a few of your essays on Stickman's site.

Cheers, Looper

Andy says:

The disproportionately large rat head would be a challenge for felchers, gerbillers, and pet shop boys everywhere. (I would imagine). And probably the scourge of Casualty (A & E) wards similarly.

Mr Thaksin, BKKchat.org says:

wonkers all wonkers

dana is a wonkerrrrrrr dana is a wonker la la la laaaaa la la la laaaaaa

Thaxo.

Gourmet says:

Are you people of the real world ??

Gordon Bennett, whatever next. The prospect of launching an unsuspecting Rock Rat up somebody's bottom suggests an extremely depraved childhood. Perhaps you need to join one of those dubious cults and enjoy each others perversions.

Hey, sickos, go felch where others fear to tread.

As for grub, maybe I'll forget about Rock Rats for a while.

Its like the old gag, 'whats the difference between a hedgehog and a Range Rover ?? Well, the Range Rover has all the pricks on the inside.'

Amen

tim says:

wow another great story, this website is really going down the tube.

Landmark Larry says:

Better looking than most of the girls I saw in Nana last week..

Prufrock says:

The luscious Om Sin, who's adamant about this BUSHY TAIL thing, even has recipes involving local herbs and dipping sauce..
"Not same" is appended to her every conversational reference to the Laotian Rock Rat.
Not a dirty city rat covered with the local sewage and fleas, just for good measure. (From a woman who once pointed out to a grimacing farang tourist punter who'd stopped to shoot the Nana bug cart, that shrimp were bugs too. And lobsters and crabs. . . . so what was the problem?

I just counter that these particular rats, like Toronto's squirrels are just rats with good PR.

Anyway. On return visits to the village (where she's hailed as a returning dignitary of no mean status incidentally) Om Sin's been known to join a cane cutting crew for the day. They still eat these rats. She has recipes. "Not jus' Bah-B-KEW, khun Prufrock".

These babies are seen as a definite workday bonus and a sort of half-time snackage thing among the machete wielding cane cutters of Udon.

Apparently, in deference to field hands who just don't have enough front teeth left to "eat off the bone" Bar-B-Q style there are always a few cane workers who'll bring a few chiles, pa lahr and other essentials out into Udon's canefields.
There's always pak chii and bai krapow
and other herbs around.

I pity any poor beast, cobras included, who stumbles into the path of a gang of these hunter-gathering village women with their nails freshly painted and cane knives newly sharpened who may be a tad bored and who feel they've earned a break and a little snack.

Maybe I can get some Tammasat linguist to translate Burns's "To a Mouse, on Stewing Up her nest with a dash of Pah Lahr" into regional Udonese-Mon for the enjoyment of Om Sin and her cane-cutting sisters of the village.

KickBoxer says:

Dana,

Shut the fuck up! Go back to your trannies bitch......

broadbandbully says:

Squirrel = Tree Rat
Pigeon = Flying Rat

Same Same, but different

Prufrock says:

Larry. So true. Nana Plaza=Mud-hen Plaza
I'm afraid that's been true for longer than most of us would care to admit.

Used to be (now this was more or less pre-mobile phone) that a hottie had to hang in the bar for at least a few months before she got into the play.
Somebody would snap her up in due course but she was usually around for a few months getting the lay of the land. And some idea of her market-worthiness

Now? No sooner do they hit the stage than they're scooped by phone wielding rookies with silly holiday baht to blow.
and they're gone in no time flat.

This has lead lead to the even more greedy mamasan syndrome (all the dek serbs are into it too . . . . encouraged to "intercede" as it were before the punter has a chance to build a rapport on his own.

Pay-sakoon's servers and "mamasans" are the worst example of the whole lot. There's one service scrag in this once fabulous bar who'll sell a gal right out from under you if she can (even if you've just got her a drink)

She's the drink begging leech with the braids and the red baseball cap (Ringworm? Hair's been ripped out in a fight?) A "Red hat's" lead the general degradation of that whole scene. I see assholes wai-ing the old monkey like she was fucking Bangkok's answer to Mme Claude for fuck's sake.

She's not even in charge of the girls but these hick punters get off on showing off to each other by playing "insider" with this horrific leech.
This has ruined a once tremendous bar which probably had some of the best pussy in the whole scene.
That's over now.

I do the soapy thing for a number of reasons these days; not the same chance to interact with the gals but what's the point now with things the way they are.

Dana says:

Regarding the above comment by Mr. KickBoxer:

This is the Internet gentlemen.

Looper says:

On a vaguely rodent related note I thought it might benefit readers to know that they now have an excuse when the wife finds some blue pills in their hand luggage before they head off on their 'business trip'.

Apparently experimentation on some lucky hamsters in an Argentinian laboratory has led to the discovery that Viagra could help recovery from jetlag - so says an article on the BBC news website today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6676585.stm

The opening line actually says 'Viagra could be used to help people flying eastwards recover from jetlag' - eastwards as in 'to Thailand'?

D333 says:

Stiffies upon arrival- how convenient!

S & W says:

Wanna start a new topic maybe? It's been a while...

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Hi S & W

I would but I'm a bit snowed under at the moment.

Regards
David

motormouth says:

Regarding new drivel content for this site how about an ass-sessment on nana soi four's mafia bike taxi's and their assumed motorcycle diaries?

mark says:

Mmmm mmmm Thai thingorats and extra hot som tam, but beware that hot blow job ow!
I say chow anything that moves.

pipelayer says:

This site is now almost as good as bangkokgirlfriend.com has been lately.

Looper says:

Hats off to the tenacious Lao Rock Rat for hanging on to the number one spot for 3 weeks.

Equalling the achievement of the 'Goombay Dance Band' with their 1982 hit 'Seven Tears'

Mr Thaksin, bangkokchat.org says:

wonkers all wonkers.

if this site carrys on like this I might just have to get myself unbanned from bangkokchat.org

Thaxo.

Looper says:

Hi David,

Best of luck with your new venture. Long may bottles of piss and scabby dogs be far from your door. Sounds like a bad night in Pattaya's worst beer bar. Is it possible that the return of the bewitching Mangosauce logo girl (the Mango Lisa as I like to call her) would precipitate a reversal of fortune with the website? Anyway, take it easy and I hope we haven't heard the last from the Mango.

Cheers, Looper