Can't afford Steak? - Eat Rat
The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
He estimated that Cambodia supplied more than a tonne of live rats a day to Vietnam.
Rats are also eaten widely in Asia - In Taiwan Owner and chef Huang Chen-fu selects rat meat inside the Jiashing restaurant in Chiayi. Diners at two Taiwan village restaurants smell a rat each time they sit down to eat. And they love it. The Ho-la Diner and the Jiashing restaurant have run five or six rat eateries out of town over nearly six decades of business to become the top twowhile a state government in eastern India this month encouraged its people to eat.
