The deadliest dish in the world is prepared in Thailand (5 photos)

The traditional Thai and Laotian dish Koi Pla claims 20,000 lives a year. Quite a lot for any statistics, no puffer fish can compete. Why is it so deadly?





Here it is in a restaurant serving, where does all that garlic go? from illness?

Koi Pla is such a fresh salad, but the essence is that its main ingredient is minced raw fish, sprinkled with lemon juice and seasoned with spices. Raw fish, it would seem that could go like this?

The most common fish found in Koi Pla is freshwater fish from the Mekong, where almost all fish are infested with parasites. These trematode parasites are capable of causing one of the most aggressive types of cancer known to man, cholangiocarcinoma or bile duct cancer.



Here's an ordinary fish straight from the river

It is one of the deadliest types of cancer with low survival rates.

And in the fishing region of Isaan in Thailand, there was the highest incidence of this type of cancer. Unexpectedly, the reason for this was a traditional dish.

Did you think that they simply die from indigestion or poisoning? Everything is much more dangerous; according to statistics, about 20,000 people died from this disease in Thailand alone that year (in Laos, simply no one counted).





This is a rustic dish

"Like leaves falling from a tree"

This is what the Thai surgeon Narong Khuntikeo said about those who died from this dish. These statistics are difficult to derive directly; they do not all die at the same time, like leaves falling from a tree. That is why it was so difficult to first deduce the pattern of deaths.

This doctor's parents also died of this type of cancer, and they loved to eat Koi Pla. After which he began to study the features of this dish and slowly deduce a terrible pattern.



There are so many goodies on the market in Thailand that you just can’t get around to fish salad

He traveled around Thailand studying people's diets and collecting statistics. As it turned out, even a story about the dangers of this dish cannot turn Thais away from it - Koi Pla has penetrated too deeply into the culture of poor fishing villages. After all, this is a cheap, tasty, and most importantly quick dish.

Authorities have been trying for some time to promote the idea of ​​steaming the fish first before making mince for Koi Pla. But it takes too long, requires a lot of effort, which is tiring for a working person. And generation after generation people have become accustomed to raw fish.



Tailnad, by the way, is not India, I tried street food without any fear

How many salads do you have to eat to get sick?

In fact, only one spoon is enough. Some people just have a stronger body, while others begin to succumb to the disease the first time. If you ate such a salad, then there is an 80% chance that you swallowed live flukes.

Admit it, has anyone been to Thailand and tried this fish dish?