Around Mahasarakham
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Monkey Atlantis
Maha Sarakham’s premier tourist attraction is under water! The monkey forest park in the nearby town of Kosum Pisai (AKA Monkeytown) is now completely flooded. The river running through it is usually quite wide and only about a meter deep; it’s a great spot to relax under the trees and watch fishermen throwing cast nets as a fresh breeze blows through and monkeys steal food from cars and incessantly mount each other. Now, it’s under several meters of floodwater because the Ubonrat Dam upriver was opened after the heavy rains. Pushed out of their home in the forest, the monkeys are now living up the street at the school and…
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Saturday Shopping
Family bike trip lol.
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Maha Sarakham Police Using Sasumata
This is an interesting video I found on FB, purportedly from this article in the Nation, although I can’t find it there. It’s interesting mainly because the nonlethal weapon sasumata (known as a “man-catcher” in English) was adapted from an an ancient and very deadly samurai weapon of the same name (in Japanese, the English translation of which is “spear-fork”). Text from the Nation article: Muang Maha Sarakham police demonstrate how to use sticks to subdue a suspect on Tuesday. A video of Maha Sarakham police using Y-shaped and hooked sticks to subdue a frantic drunken man, which went viral on Monday, was part of a wider strategy, it…
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Sermthaithani Shops
The shop house row that leads to the back of our housing estate.
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Farewell, Play Bar
One of Maha Sarakham’s first really cool outdoor pubs. Lots of memories here… It was the first place to offer deep fried larb balls. It was also where T and J hid from the cops upstairs (I didn’t even know it had an upstairs!). One day last week we drove by, and it was just gone.
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Funky Khao Soi
Noodles are life. Curry is life. These are curry noodles.
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Sugoi Ramen, Maha Sarakham
My review on Google Maps basically says it’s sugokunai. Mushy noodles and lukewarm broth are just not my thing, but Thais seem to love both. I just want to put some photos here.
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Winter Wedding Photos
Nam’s younger brother’s tying the knot today.
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Sustainable Food Product in Maha Sarakham
It tastes like shrimp, I swear: Fried scorpion anyone?
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40th Anniversary of My Faculty
Pretty cool light show with the molam tonight.
