We just had dinner and I feel the urge to blog about my sweet dining experience, especially considering the restaurant has free Internet.

Anyway, tonight I managed to cross three things off my TODO list: crocodile, snake and kangaroo. I had a sweet Khmer BBQ platter with each of those meats and also chicken. They bring a little BBQ to your table and then you cook the meat yourself. There also were three different Khmer dipping sauces: chili, pepper and soy bean sauce.

Most excellent. I've always wanted to try these meats. The whole thing only cost $6 which is really steep by Cambodian standards, but I felt like splurging in my last week. :-)

Overall I liked crodocile the best, it's a little chewy but overall very tasty. It tastes maybe a little bit like chicken, but not really. Snake was good too, the texture reminded me of squid, but it was more chewy. I didn't really like the kangaroo, it was too chewy/leathery and it tasted a little bland.

Last week we visited a crocodile farm in Vietnam. They had around 4000 crocodiles at the farm. They were raised for the meat and the leather. Our guide kept telling us that BBQed crocodile is one of his favorite dishes. Now that I had it I can see where he is coming from. :-)