Authinic Thai Food

[thailandphil]

                                        “Aloi”

                                                                 (In Thai that means good tasting)

                                         Thailand Street Food

The true taste of Thai Food is not to be found in some fancy hotel in Bangkok but on the streets. Almost every corner has half-a-dozen little carts or small shops selling food of all sorts. Meals will cost about $1 and the food is great.

I will give you the recipe and video if I can find one on some of the favorite Thai dishes. So enjoy.

Today we are having one of my favorites Fried Gecko. You know the lizard that hangs on your ceiling eating bugs and make the un-godliest noise all night.

  

 

 Ingredients:

150 gms. Butterfly or Gecko Lizard meat (Small chopped)

25 chopped small green and red fresh chillies

1 tsp crushed garlic

1 tbsp crushed shallot

½ tsp. salt

14 tspl ground black pepper

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tsp sugar

¼ cup vegetable oil

¼ cup water

30-40 holy basil leaves

WARNING: This is very spicy and may give some of you old guys’ gas. Recipe differs from video but you will get the idea.

YouTube video link 

 

[chef jimmyj]

I had those Gecko's at my house in Georgia but never tried to eat one...This recipe looks good and I have had a similar dish made with Chicken Wings that was Great but had more sugar in it...JJ

 

[slownlow]

Not sure where I can get gecko, but this sounds great!  Thanks for sharing.

 

[scarbelly]

Hey Phil 

Thanks for sharing this cultural delight with us. Obviously some of the items will be hard to get here but we can adapt to what we have. 

Thanks again

 

[SmokinAl]

WOW I have them running all over the place down here. Never thought about eating them though. Don't know as I will either, but thanks for the recipe!

 

[mballi3011]

Now I think I have them creators running amuck around here and I really like to eat some different things to. I just might have ti try this one.

 

[venture]

We have geckos in our garage during the warm season.  Unfortunately, they are the tiny little "house geckos" about 5 inches long including the tail.  But they sure do eat a lot of bugs!

This one was a baby.  Only about 3 inches.  We named it "little bit".

We would have to find a source for those big oriental geckos that the GI's had the unspeakable name for.

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[harleysmoker]

We have geckos in our garage during the warm season.  Unfortunately, they are the tiny little "house geckos" about 5 inches long including the tail.  But they sure do eat a lot of bugs!

This one was a baby.  Only about 3 inches.  We named it "little bit".

We would have to find a source for those big oriental geckos that the GI's had the unspeakable name for.

Good luck and good smoking.

I have a Gecko in my garage same color as yours Venture. As the nights are a little cold here, when I come out in the middle of the night for a smoke break he is hanging out by my garage door button light.

Geckos are not the same as a Brown Anoles that are everywhere you look here in Florida. When I first came here from Ohio I couldn't believe how many lizzards are here!

Anoles and Fire Ants,,man you would think there was something that would eat them to help control them.

 

[venture]

Harley, hard to tell from your pics and mine?  Yours look a little bigger?  The geckos the GI's knew in Vietnam were huge and made a distinctive sound which gave them their "FY" name.  Most vets just called them "FY" lizards? 

I think mine are called a "Mediterranean house gecko" or just a "house gecko"?  They only get to 4 to 5 inches long including the tail. I do seem to remember that they were introduced in your part of the world and moved across the southwest to us.  They are now being found in places where they were never known before.  They are not considered an "invasive species" because they do not displace another species?

We love them in warm weather.  Watching them chasing and catching bugs is more entertaining than TV.

I understand that in certain parts of the world, newlyweds are given them as a house warming present to keep bugs down in their house.

We have only found a couple in the house, but we have many in the garage during warm parts of the year.

They are very welcome because they seem to have a never ending appetite for bugs?

When we first noticed them, we named them.  Then there were so many we couldn't keep them all sorted out. 

We should start seeing them again around the end of March.

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[harleysmoker]

The pictures I posted I got from Google images, they are Brown Anoles, not Geckos. I have 1 Gecko like your picture, that lives  in my garage but these Anoles are everywhere you walk here in Florida. I cant count the times the wife has yelled at me to get 1 out of the house.

Another thing we have really big toads that come to my garage lights to eat bugs and they like to get into my dogs water to float around and take a crap. I have read they have poison on the sides of there head.

 

[venture]

I guess we are hijacking this thread?  But interesting?

Mine do not have the red "beard" on the neck.

Also, I have heard of dogs getting sick and puking after eating the little frogs?

Who knows?

Good luck with your geckos.  Hope they inhabit your garage and relieve you of many bugs!

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[thailandphil]

Same one you just need to catch a bunch. You can buy all that stuff bugs, worms ect at the market for $1.25 a kilo.

 

[venture]

So these are chopped up, bones and all?  Dried?

I was thinking of the much larger gecko, obviously.

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[awopaho7]

I'm 45 miles north of Tampa, actually not too far from "Hot Rod's BarBQ in Lutz FL." if that means anything.

I imported myself to Gainesville, FL. in '79 and the only place we could find the Med Gecko was on the music building at the main campus (University Ave & SE 13th St)

The unique thing is there curious and you could find them hitching rides in your clothes, soon they were at Devil's Mill hopper, Ocala National Forrest and well up into Ga.

The Geckos scurry across the screen porch on their nimble suction looking toes, eating near their weight in annoying creatures, nearly transparent in the morning sun, you can even watch their heart beat and watch a grass hopper begin it's final contribution to nature. What we called a "Mediterranean Gecko" had a common length from 3" to 8" overall, primarily pale green and nearly transparent body, the spots were barely visible

I'm sure such an successful critter found itself "seeded" in many places, even in Tampa, in January Geckos arnt very plentiful, it's been near 80 all week, if i see one I'll get a shot but there usually low profile till the "Bug Boom" around the spring rains.