.Ant eggs are common food for people in Thailand’s northeast. The eggs of red ants are good material to cook. They are clean and high of protein nutrients. Red ants eat mango leaves so their bodies taste like a squirt of lime, but their fresh eggs are fatty and sweet, they resemble the soft fluffy ends of mini barley grains, or soft ’rice bubbles’ and have a delicate taste, soft appealing texture and a slightly tart edge.
I talked to my friend who is from Kalasin province in the Northeast. She said ant eggs are her family’s favorite food. A big smile was suddenly shown on her face when talking about it. She also told me about red ant eggs’ hunting;