Memoirs Part 20

This reminds me of a similar story when I was in Thailand. I went out drinking with a GI friend at his Thai friend’s house. It was really late, so we ended up “crashing” there overnight. We woke up late and my friend’s friend had already left for work. His wife prepared breakfast for us. Since we were sleeping when she prepared it, she put our plates of rice in a screened box, to keep the flies away. She served the rice to us and we noticed these tiny black specks on the rice (Furikake?). At first, I thought it was pepper or another spice, but they were moving (Not furikake!). My friend mentioned it to the wife. She said sorry, took the plate, blew off the ants and gave the plates of rice back to us. I hear that ants are high in protein.