Dried mice
The dish is quite famous in Tam Nong District, Dong Thap Province. People here often hunt for mice in their fields almost throughout the year, but the mice are best after harvest.
After being baked, the mice are eaten with pepper and salt.
Dried snake
At the flooding season, snakes appear in fields of An Giang Province, so local people often hunt them. Snake flesh is dried, while their skin and bones are used to make other the kinds of dish.
It is more difficult to make dry snake than dry fish dishes. After being separated from bones, snake flesh is cleaned and soaked with spices then dried for 2-3 hours in the sunlight. Then it is baked or fired. The best pieces of dried snake are packaged for sale.
Bat
According to people in the Southwest, the smellier the bat, the better the dish.
Skill is needed to make bat flesh taste good, and surprisingly bat flesh doesn’t need to be washed by water.
Bats often eat fruits, so it flesh is good. Local people make bats into different dishes such as mixed with coconut and cabbage. But the most famous dishes are bat soup and stir-fried bat.
Bay Nui scorpion
This is a special dish in Bay Nui area in An Giang Province. The dish is served hot with cucumber, spicy vegetables, pepper and salt.
Scorpions in the Bay Nui area are dark black, have big claws and live in the mountain tops
After being cleaned, scorpions are fried with cooking oil for several minutes. It is served hot with spicy vegetables, pepper and salt.
Larvae coconut worm
This dish challenges many people when the worms are eaten raw with chilli and fish sauce.
The worms are said to taste similar to eggs.
Larvae coconut worm raising is currently banned due to their negative impacts on the environment.
