Cheung Prey

Cheung Prey is a district of Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. The district capital is Skuon city. This busy market metropolis has grown up across the intersection of National Highway 6 and National Highway 7. Skun is around 49 kilometres east of the provincial capital at Kampong Cham metropolis and seventy five kilometres north of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
The district capital of Skuon is also called "Spiderville."The city has end up famous with both locals and global traffic to Cambodia for its fried spiders.

The spiders are either captured in their burrows or bred for sale. First the venom is removed and then the spider is killed by means of squeezing the thorax. The spiders are then fried entire with garlic and salt. The practice of ingesting spiders in Cheung Prey began underneath the Democratic Kampuchea regime in Cambodia. Eating spiders and different bugs helped locals starving from the tough rules of the Khmer Rouge.