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

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Scenes from a Hoi Tod Shop

    Hoi Tod is a Thai dish made by frying mussels (or sometimes, other shellfish, squid, or shrimp) in an eggy batter and wrapping up beansprouts and garlic chives with it.…

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  • Food,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Thai Society/Culture,  Toys & Tech

    Sushiro End Stack

    I remember using QR codes for product tracking (with Keyence printers and scanners) as a salaryman around Y2K at an electronics factory on monster island. The only other place I’d…

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  • Food,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Work

    Makizushi Class

    For the past year, Nam and I have been arranging sushi roll-making events for university students and schoolchildren. This video is a typical first attempt of trying to stuff too…

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  • Food,  Thai Society/Culture,  Videos

    Gogi Seki

    Max’s auntie took us to a Korean BBQ buffet near her office in Sukhumvit and it’s basically the best yakiniku I’ve had in Thailand. For 500 baht ($15 US), you…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Videos

    Thai Bami (Wheat-based Egg Noodles)

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Videos

    Suki Mall Like

    There’s a really excellent conveyor belt hotpot right near our house – at a gas station, no less – nad I went there for lunch with Tee today. I took…

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  • Food,  Photos

    Top Chicken Cooking Tips

    Pictured above: Not chicken

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  • Food,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Oh, baby!,  Videos

    Babytapi Amemura – Osaka

    Babytapi America-mura (ベビタピ アメリカ村店)

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  • Food,  Japanese Society/Culture,  Thai Society/Culture

    Raw Liver at ลาบ ลับ ลับ ปรีดี 43

    Either Taro or my cousin knew about an awesome Japanese street restaurant in Bangkok that serves raw beef liver – a dish once very popular in Japan that is now…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    65 baht plate lunch

    This was at the very end of last year. This cafeteria-type place near our friend’s bakery (the legendary Sang-R-Thit) has since closed down, but it was good while it lasted.…

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Food,  Photos

    Potak Soup

    “Potak” apparently means “shipwreck,” although I haven’t confirmed it beyond a Google search.* This may be considered a variant of Tom Yum Goong, although it really depends on who’s making…

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Thai meatball

    Thai meatballs (luk chin or look chin, depending on your preferred Romanization) are, like sausage, popular and of mysterious formulation — you never really know what they’re made of, even…

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