How do you like your rat? Poached, fried, grilled or baked? Rat vendor, Sala Prompim, suggests the hip and the liver as the best cuts and sells up to 100 kg of rat meat on a good day. The meat sells for 150 baht a kilogram which is approxiamately $4.82. One customer believes it to be ‘better than chicken’. “It is tastier than other meats, nothing can compete with rat”, Sala is quoted as saying. Thongyu Roruchit agrees. “It all depends on what you like, but it is a normal meat like any other,” he said. The rats are drowned and skinned and are proving popular with Thailand’s roadside vendors.