Shut up and eat your bees

Bee harvesting in a busy restaurant. Uhhh, why?

This might be one of the strangest sights I've seen in Thailand, or anywhere. Somewhere inside the cooking station of this noodle joint, in a glass corner next to the sidewalk, is a beehive. Honeybees are everywhere -- on the countertop, in the food, swarming all around the cook.

She reaches over with a pair of tongs and starts scooping honeybees off the glass and the counter, and stirs them into a pot. For cooking? Dipping sauce?? She is practically reaching her hand into the hive for bees but somehow never gets stung. I want to ask her so many questions, but that damned language barrier ...

It's a fabulous restaurant, by the way. Dis-sting-tive, even!