Khmer specialities

In Siem Reap are two restaurants with the following sign outside:
"We don't serve dog, cat, monkey, rat or worms"
Now you might think that this still leaves a lot open, and right, they both have a "snake menu" on their dinner card. I didn't try it, I'm honest...
I also was a coward and walked past the huge plates full of grilled insects, which you can find at every street corner: cicadas, spiders, beegles, whatever you prefer... I thought that they must be coming from some kind of "farm", but was told that most of them are simply collected in the woods where they abound...

Another speciality which I skipped are eggs. You see them in big heaps on plates at every food stall. When you take a closer look, you notice that they are not clean white as we are used to see them: they are covered with larger dark spots. The locals usually eat several of them at once. They cautiously break open the top. When you try to get a glimpse what's inside, you can see that it's not white, but somehow dark. Then they season it with salt or a spicy sauce and start spooning them out. It doesn't look very fancy and I quickly knew what it was because I had read about it before: the eggs are duck eggs, and they are almost fully bred, that means that the duck fledgling inside is almost ready to hatch out. At that stadium they are boiled, as far as I know, and in this state they are a real Khmer delicatesse.

Before you start thinking "what a strange country", I can ensure you that there are still lots of other specialities which can be eaten without any major consideration. Cambodian curries are great, as are a lot of fish dishes...
A few bugs shouldn't deter you from visiting this really interesting country...