looks like a good anabolic breakfast for champs
Actually the ants eggs are quite good. I order them myself if I go out to a place that has them (they are seasonal).
They are a bit like little white beans that 'pop' when you crunch them. Not bad at all.
As you get through the season - they start looking decidedly 'anty' as above - then I'm not so keen but will still eat them.
Last year we were up North and they laid on a big feast - most of it looked like roadkill to me but I can eat anything. My poor son looked at it, picked up a bag of sticky rice and started eating it. They saw he wasn't digging in & we explained his tastes weren't so 'exotic'. So auntie asks if he'd like an omelette and with a big smile he said "dai khap" - yes please.
So his omelette comes out and he digs into it and pulls a face "what are these dad?". And of course, auntie had cooked him an ants egg omelette - because ants eggs aren't at all exotic and an omelette would be too plain without them. He sort of gave up at that point and ate it anyway.
One English friend complimented me on the curry we'd had at dinner. This was half an hour after dinner as we sat in a bar looking up some girls skirts. I said "you liked it? It was ants egg curry". About 90 seconds elapsed between him finding out and it leaving his stomach.
Good times.
