We were sat down having dinner the other night when seemingly out of nowhere, this fella dropped in to partake in the 'side salad' which consisted mainly of shredded cabbage coated in a sickly sweet mayonnaise.
Now usually, these grasshoppers / crickets are eaten as a fried snack, available from handcarts on streets all over Thailand so I guess there was a sense of irony in his actions. Ironical grasshoppers aren't something you see everyday so I felt the need to go full-on David Attenborough and took my first 'nature' video.
As the people I was having dinner with weren't as impressed as I was, he suddenly legged it and disappeared just as fast as he had appeared. Either he got scared or, most likely, he wasn't impressed with the sickly, sweet mayo either.....
My new series, 'Life of a Grasshopper' will be starting on Netflix in May....
