Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
The food pictured is look chin, or Thai meatballs and hot dogs and other protein shapes on skewers, a common street food either grilled or steamed and sold for 5-10 baht. The darker meatballs are beef and the lighter ones are usually pork or fish. They often contain gristle or cartilage bits that add a crunchy texture.
It seems I forgot to upload this but it was taken a bit more than a year ago, during the first lockdown, when fears were high, but there was only a single case of coronavirus in Maha Sarakham province, imported from Buri Ram. We are now on our third self-imposed lockdown and this third wave was the largest for our town (over a hundred infected), and Thailand as a whole. The kids were spreading it in between lockdowns at bars and outdoor pubs.
Things were all back to normal for maybe a month or so, then one superspreading student brought it back from Bangkok partying. I’ll be teaching classes online again next term, even if it’s not mandated, because less than 1% of the population of Thailand is vaccinated at this point. My fam is waiting for the Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J jab, because the free Chinese vaccine is only ~50% effective against the new strain in Brazil, it seems.
Mosquito eating banana toast, y’all.
Well it’s probably not a fruit (although there might be a smashed banana in there or something – I didn’t check), but mosquitoes seem to suck moisture from anything, including wet napkins… Click to see the entire Mosquitoes Eating Fruit Series.
We were down for approximately a day because I was coordinating the change while on a trip to Laos last week.
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Here’s a test photo of a mosquito eating apple slices:
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This is the latest entry in a series I created about mosquitoes eating fruit; I’ll link the other entries here later.
UPDATE:
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I thought I was going to have to rename this series to “Mosquitoes eating Fruits and Vegetables,” but as luck would have it, it seems that the internet mostly agrees that eggplant is actually fruit. So anyway, here’s what a typical vegetarian mosquito sucks on:
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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.