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C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people

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  • Food,  Thai Society/Culture

    Thai Jungle Barbecue

    Thai chameleons are surprisingly tasty. Further explanation will follow in another post…

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  • Food,  Web

    Nattokinase vs. amyloid fibrils

    Attention: My nattoburger invention may now save you from Alzheimer’s.

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  • Food

    Using Thai rice for risotto…

    .. and it’s taking a loooooooong time. Also, I have no parmesan. Maybe I’ll use spotted gecko spittle… Improvise, improvise, improvise.

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  • Food,  Photos

    choco strawberry

    No comment, except that these were on sale at Fuji supermarket in Bangkok so this is an Engrish mistake and not a Thainglish one.

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Eating Mickey (or, how I overcame one of my last food prejudices)

    I ask that you have an open mind about this post, because the conclusion may surprise you – it sure surprised me. Here I am with my pal Mickey Rat:…

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  • Exploits,  Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture,  Work

    Volunteering in Kalasin

    Last week a few of us teachers were asked to visit some classes being taught on a volunteer basis by our Business English major students out in Kalasin. We went…

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  • Food,  Thai Society/Culture

    Quick ‘n Dirty Beef Panang

    Beef Panang is considered a dry curry (for Thailand at least) because it contains less roux (liquid base), and specifically, less coconut milk than other Thai curries. It is also…

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Insect appetizers

    These went really well with the snake soup last week. We forgot to take photos of them past the prep stage, though. They were salted and deep fried, and then…

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  • Food

    This be rat snake soup (tom yam)

    If this gets to you, wait until I post the appetizers.

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  • Food,  Thai Society/Culture

    It tastes like chicken…

    I had snake soup for breakfast this morning. It was one of the snakes on this page. More to follow.

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  • Food

    Culinary subversion (Pancake Puff vs. Moffle)

    A while back, G-man tipped me off in the comments that he’d found something pretty funny: Pancake Puffs, which seem an awful like something we’re used to seeing in Japan…

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  • Exploits,  Food

    Half full

    I just came in from picking chillies off our bushes in the front yard and began errantly picking my nose when checking email. At least I’ll never make that mistake…

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