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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

    Nam Nuong

    Nam Nuong are the little grilled sausages on sticks shown below, but it’s also the name of this dish. It’s Vietnamese in origin, but I don’t know what it’s called…

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    D&D

    Meet thine foe: The Giant Centipede These things just look evil, and Nam insisted I dispatch it when we found it in her university’s parking lot. “Dangerous for students walking…

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Ant Infestation

    They appear with no warning When they sense the rain coming (and they are never wrong about it), ants can move an entire colony inside the house overnight, as happened…

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture,  Web

    A Hyperlinky Ode to a Damn Fine Fish – Soft Tilapia Pr0n

    Oh, Tilapia, how versatile thy be! You are on my plate nearly every week, and my favorite New Years repast. In fact, you are farmed in such numbers, so misused…

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Tokay lizard caught off-guard

    I swear these are the ugliest, trippiest looking things you’ll ever see… Here’s my previous post on them, with facts aplenty.

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  • Photos

    Coolest Company Name/Logo – Double Hanuman

    A clothes hanger company. No web presence AFAIK. Do you know Hanuman? He is so kick-ass that they named one of the most devastating Muay Thai moves after him –…

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Dragonfruit in Bloom

    Four or five months ago, Nam’s mother had couple of pitaya plants shipped back from her hometown of Surin (famous for their annual elephant festival and silk weaving). They were…

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    Undetermined Payload

    Sometimes you run into the strangest sights on the road.

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  • Our New Thai House,  Photos

    Crab on Baked Earth

    Crawling around the building site of our new house.

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Carabao Bike & Death Merchant

    Yesterday, on the way to check the progress of the new house we’re building, we came across a couple of awesome motorcycles, one right after the other. First up was…

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  • Photos

    My New Baby Alligator

    I rescued him from a wet bathroom floor when I was painting.

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  • Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Precursor to official Ubon Candle Festival post

    I don’t have time to go sift through all the photos I took at the candle festival we saw in Ubon Ratchathani last weekend, but I wanted to post a…

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