In Ho Chi Minh City, do they sell fried spider or cricket and so on ....?

Question

In Ho Chi Minh City, do they sell fried spider or cricket and so on ....?

Answer 1

You want to try them? :)  Depending on whereabout are you visiting.  Most area that I visited, I haven't seen anything like that, yet.  Usually I tend to hang around the "popular" areas.  For me is NO.

HCM city is pretty big.  There are probably people on here should know, though.

Answer 2

If there are any restaurant that sell such,  it's only for tourist as a "Fear Factor" type of trills.  We Saigonese do not eat these.  You might be thinking of Cambodia where I have seen a lot of insects deep fried.

Answer 3

There's a cool restaurant at 31 Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1 (cant remember name).

They sell all kinds of food from standard Vietnamese fare to crazy stuff like rats, coconut worms, scorpions etc.

Great place that is always busy and full of locals.

I haven't seen spiders in Vietnam, but there common place in Cambodia. Maybe someone else has seen them?

Enjoy!

Answer 4

I tried once at the bother of Vietnam and Cambodia. I don't know if it is served in Saigon.

Answer 5

HCMC is my hometown and i've never seen people selling it in the street, I saw some pictures from some restaurants that selling friend cricket though. But we don't normally selling these stuffs, and I think it's not too nice to eat x_x look disgusting

Answer 6

In Vietnam, they don't really like it. They will say that it's disgusting but I think there is nothing like that sell in the beautiful city.

Answer 7

I just hear about Fried Cricket or scorpion. I've never heard about Fried Spider.