Thailand’s food retailers and restaurants are offering crocodile meat delicacies in the hope of tempting meat-eating customers concerned over health scares linked to BSE and poultry diseases.
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It is also being promoted favourably compared to chicken on a nutritional basis. Every 100g of crocodile meat has 1.9g of fat and 21g of protein compared with 10g of fat and 20g of protein in chicken.
Restaurants are offering recipes that include hot stewed crocodile with herbs, crocodile fillet with onion and ginger and crocodile steak (best medium-rare). At Baht 1,000 (US$22.9) a kg, the price of fresh crocodile meat is relatively high. A canned version, sold in supermarkets, is cheaper. Venturetec, a local food distributor, intends to establish cookery classes to teach various recipes.
