While a plate piled high with hairy, palm-sized tarantulas is the stuff of nightmares for some, these garlic fried spiders are a coveted treat in Cambodia, where the only fear is that they may ...

Spider vendors, she adds, usually sell "100 to 200 spiders a day for 300 riels and we buy them for 150 riels". So a seller makes between 15,000 and 30,000 riels a day - or £2.50 to £5.

Giant spiders might not look appetizing, but in Cambodia they are considered a delicacy. First eaten by starving refugees during the Khmer Rouge era in the late 1970s, they are now a popular snack ...

08/15/2018 August 15, 2018. Eating a fried tarantula has become a popular photo opportunity for tourists in Cambodia. However, this delicacy is in danger of disappearing, thanks to deforestation ...

Reporting from Phnom Penh, Cambodia — As the sun set over Angkor Wat, the temple built for King Suryavarman II in the 12th century, I nosed my Vespa out into the line of three-wheeled tuktuks ...

The shiny, hairy creatures might make some people run a mile but in the humid jungle of Kampong Thom province, north of Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, tarantula hunting is all in a day's work.

In Cambodia’s northwestern town of Siem Reap, visitors can learn to cook spiders and bugs.