Eating Frogs

If you don't like listening to frogs, why not try eating 'em instead?  Some people find the idea a little off-putting, but Malaysia is just the place to overcome that squeamishness...

It can be difficult to describe an unusual type of meat without resorting to the old 'tastes like chicken' fallback.  This is generally applied to anything from bats to boa constrictors, but in fact it often really refers to a lack of distinct taste.

And that is probably true about frog as well.  It's not just the leg we're talking about here, it's the torso as well, and it's flavour depends greatly on the sauce it comes with.  We had with a ginger sauce, which was rather good, although decided that you would still have to go down through the lists of more commonly edible animals before you would choose to eat frog.

It's down there with eel and snails and all those other critters that you don't mind eating when they are professionally cooked and slathered in delicious sauce, but wouldn't generally choose to put between burger buns.

Frogs as food are more of a Chinese delicacy than Malay or Indian, so look out for a Chinese restaurant (we went to the Platinum Chinatown restaurant in Petaling Street) if you fancy an amphibian platter.