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One for the rodent: Rats a cheap street snack in Cambodia

Rats are an inexpensive lunch for workers and farmers in Cambodia's rural Battambang province. [AFP]

As he tears off a leg of a charcoal-grilled rat at a roadside stall in western Cambodia, Yit Sarin hails the simple joy of rodent and rice washed down with beer.

"It's delicious," he says of the snack.

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