By admin | August 20, 2006
Here’s a shot a small vegetable stand in a market around here. There’s a variety of vegetables including winter melons, mushrooms, cabbage, and, most notably, pumpkins. Thai pumpkins, called fak tawng [ฟัà¸à¸—à¸à¸‡], are used in a lot of dishes ranging from main entrees to desserts. They remind me a lot of acorn or butternut squash […]
By admin | August 20, 2006
Here’s two nice snacks for you. We got the bugs, then we got my sandwich. The sandwich was good, but I don’t think you care about that. Of course the more interesting aspect is those rather large insects. The scorpions (maeng bpawng [à¹à¸¡à¸‡à¸›à¹ˆà¸à¸‡]) are interesting, but I’ve written about those before . Those other bugs […]
By admin | August 20, 2006
Eels (bplaa lai [ปลาไหล]) are a common food in rural Thailand. Don’t get these eels confused with your unagi sushi, though. These eels are tiny like garden snakes and not nearly as meaty as the Japanese version. They are cut like a steak (as opposed to a fillet), although each ‘steak’ would be one bite […]
By admin | August 20, 2006
Here’s a bin with some coagulated blood chunks [luad – เลืà¸à¸”]. Apparently cow blood is too dark and smells while chicken blood gets a bit tough, so they aren’t used much. What we have here is pig blood. And it tastes like…blood! If you’ve ever got a cut in your mouth you’ll know what I […]
By admin | August 16, 2006
Here’s a nice selection of insects. I’ll give some common thoughts and opinions that many foreigners have when they try these. On the plate we have (clockwise from 12:00, although they are a bit mixed up): ants mixed with lemongrass and chilis (miang mot daeng [เมี่ยงมดà¹à¸”ง]) – Tastes like chilis and lemongrass. bamboo worms (only […]
By admin | August 13, 2006
Look at these tasty fried birds. I’m not sure what kind of bird they are, perhaps pigeons or something like that. In Thai its simply called fried bird (nok tawt [นà¸à¸—à¸à¸”]). I’m not sure what the appeal is with these either. There’s barely any meat on them and its mostly just crunchy bones and miscellaneous […]
Here’s a tasty bar snack that goes great with beer. While it may look intimidating at first, most of these items are actually quite tasty. In the bowl we have ants (miang mot daeng [เมี่ยงมดà¹à¸”ง]). I talk about miang mod daeng , although as is the norm, there is no coconut in this mixture. In […]
This is a traditional Thai snack called miang kam [เมี่ยงคำ], which supposedly had its origin around North Thailand in ancient times. Due to its simplicity, I can easily visualize people eating this snack ages ago. All you do is take some large, chaapluu leaves [ช้าพลู] to wrap the ingredients up before popping it in your […]
I call this a dinner of weeds because essentially that’s what it seems like to me. Get some chili sauce (nam prik [น้ำพริà¸]) to dip the veggies, a plate of rice as the base, and maybe a tiny fish for some protein. There’s countless combinations this dish can take with all types of chili sauces […]
I recently posted about the gaeng som where I mentioned that a common addition is an omelet with a thai vegetable called cha-om (no common English name, but scientific name acacia pennata). Well, I decided I better go out and get a picture of the omelet. Here’s some ไข่เจียวชà¸à¸¡ [kai jiaw chaom]. As you can […]
