Food
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Khao Soi for Lunch
When in Chiang Mai, do as the Chiang Maianese (do).
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Protein snack
We happened upon a stretch of fried grasshopper stands and decided to partake. They were most excellent. Also, it turned out that one of the princesses of Thailand was in a motorcade behind us and we had to pull over with all the other cars on the road to clear it before she passed. I had my Nikon ready and will post photos later.
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I want to eat yakiniku with Jack O’Shea
///////////////////////// Oh, enlighten me Wikipedia: Jack O’Shea’s I miss living in Sumoto, five minutes walk from Kobe/Tajima beef in any direction. Paying fifty bucks per filet/sirloin seemed expensive even then, but I have a feeling I’ll never have such easy access again…
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Shoyu chili garlic fish sauce wings
It’s made like how it sounds (plus braised in Japanese sake to finish). It tastes how it looks. I suppose you could call them water buffalo wings. Did you know that shoyu (soy sauce) is the root word of “soy” in English? And that perhaps the best of example of a loan word from the Thai language in English is “bong?” Cooking and linguistics are both a delicious jumble of influences and flavors.
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Friday finality
I think I’ve finally got this blog up and running the way it should be, so I feel great. — Woke up this morning, went to buy a traditional Isan breakfast of sticky rice and skewered BBQ pork, as well as some fried doughballs and a bag of rice porridge. Brought it all back home, got Max ready, and took him to school. Found a roadside vendor selling fresh durian and had him break down a small (~.75 kgs whole) one for Nam – she loves them (I merely tolerate them). Came home again to Mina babbling and scooting around madly on her baby walker. It’s been a perfect start…
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Snail curry
I just came back from lunch with a bag of (aquatic) snail curry that I accidentally ordered at a new restaurant located just behind our campus. It looked like an appetizing fish or chicken curry under the glass when, but when it was served I saw it was full of snails or similar freshwater shellfish. Me hates parasites. So I munched on the other things i’d ordered and brought back the snail curry in a bag. I gave it to a group of girls I’d taught before who were hanging out outside the teacher’s lounge. They seemed happy with it. I forgot to take a photo, though. Oh, well –…
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Rishi Indian Food – Roi Et, Thailand
A friend told me about this restaurant more than a year ago, but with babies and whatnot, we never had the chance to try it (although we were actually parked in front of the shop debating whether to order take away six months ago – we didn’t have the time to wait). Our friends Dave and Michiko are visiting from Japan, so yesterday, we all piled in the Crown (4 adults + Max) and drove for an hour out to downtown Roi Et just down the street from Roi Et Plaza and the Roi Et City Hotel. Nam ordered a bunch of stuff on the phone before we left home,…
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Three Egg Smiley
He made such a nice omelet: Leftover roast pork and cheese, topped with eggplant & meat sauce.
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Mosquitoes Eating Fruit (Part 1 – Jackfruit)
In or new Thai house, we’ve noticed mosquitoes sucking moisture out of sponges around the sink area, or from damp towels or rags. I suppose this is normal behavior, but we never really noticed it until we lived in this house. The past year, we’ve started to notice them sucking on various fruits we leave out on the counters. I’ve decided to start recording these images because I feel there’s a greatly underestimated demand for knowing what mosquitoes that aren’t sucking blood are sucking. In this case, it was jackfruit. Click to see the entire Mosquitoes Eating Fruit Series.
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Cornershop Kway Chap
Last week I visited at a noodle shop that I thought was new, but my coworker said it’s been around for a few years. This is mainly what they sell, standard kway chap noodles served Vietnamese style in clear chicken stock with rice noodles of medium thickness (you can also get instant ramen served in kway chap stock). This is opposed to the other style of kway chap popular in Thailand, the Chinese kind in brown stock with blood cubes, bamboo shoots, and spiral flat noodles (this Chinese kind is usually done very poorly in Thailand IMHO, but when done properly, with fresh ingredients and duck meat, can be very…
