As anyone having travelled through Thailand will have noticed, insects are a popular source of protein, and the same variety are available here for a small price. Probably my favourite, or at the lesser of the many evils, are the grasshoppers. Cooked in some slightly spicy herbs they are crunchy and have a flavour that could loosely be related to bacon. Definitely the only ones I could eat a whole bag of.

But in the name of exploration, and possibly after a little too much alcohol, I have tried a few of the others. Popular with the locals in Cambodia are a strain of tarantula that is commonly harvested around Skun, a small town just outside of Kompong Cham. They are also available from Central Market if you’re not travelling out of town. The legs are quite edible and have a rich flavour, but I do find the bodies to be a gastronomic form of Russian roulette, sometimes containing a white fleshy substance that is OK, but often containing a brown mush. I’ll leave it to your imagination to decide what that is.

There are many more from grubs (also quite nice) to cockroaches, the only ones I’ve never tried, and I once ate a scorpion in Thailand (far too much armour!) Yet it's not just the bugs that make many a Westerner squeamish. There are duck embryos, chicken feet, strange varieties of tripe and a hundred other body parts that are used to make sausages in the west. So if you’ve always said you’ll try anything once Cambodia is the place to put your money where your mouth is, and take a bite on the wild side!