Birds Nest Soup - Thailand

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February 2006 The small Thai town of Pattani has gone to the birds -- literally. The town's economy is booming after residents started collecting bird saliva. Sea Swift nests, used to make birds' nest soup and made from hardened saliva, sell for $2,000 a kg. A few years ago, the birds inexplicably started colonising Pattani. Now, all the residents have got in on the act. As one resident states: "We used to live here. But now we're going to move to make space for the birds."

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: October 9, 2007 at 9:39 am
Author: journeymanpictures

Length: 0:06:20
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Mae614 (Thursday 21st of August 2008 06:07:02 PM)
They're not killing the poor animals, they just go to their nest and take the saliva. And taking those saliva is worth your live, because theyre mainly found in very very high places(like caves and stuff like that).
Ali695 (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 04:29:39 PM)
i'd like to try that soup someday
vietassassin (Tuesday 5th of August 2008 04:45:53 PM)
u should its very good if u go to the right place or buy it and do it ur self which takes hrs but worth it haha
wolfloverii (Monday 21st of July 2008 05:30:44 PM)
dude if you have the same tastebuds I do, you wouldn't be able to control your mouth... If you try this man its so FUCKING good.
ElLoboPurpura (Saturday 19th of July 2008 10:56:22 PM)
chinos ijos dela chingada no se con forman con matar perros y sorras sino k etanbien ay ke alabar los por sus pendejadas po r mi parte todos los chinos ke se pudran
CaptainGarryRules (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 02:07:17 PM)
who gives a fuck about faggot birds
samiraroger (Friday 18th of July 2008 11:22:15 AM)
whatever might get your heart transformed. humanity is dying. just because they can not communicate the same way you do, doesn't make them without feelings. just try and understand that humans were not designed to kill but designed to save and utilise the extra sense given to them for providing help to the others.nature has its own way of putting a living thing to death, we have no right over it. just be a little considerate and stop this atrocity. not only to the birds but the other animals.
mockingbirdxxx (Saturday 28th of June 2008 08:40:26 PM)
vile.
phongle91732 (Thursday 19th of June 2008 07:54:58 PM)
Stop MTF!
samiraroger (Saturday 28th of June 2008 05:48:28 AM)
that is what you have got to say? well people like you will never understand. wait until you get chooped off and rendered homeless. probably then you might understand. what is the use talking to people like you? all you have got is abuses so as to hide your cowardice....