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Mainstream Thai Funk Sample
Tracing a sample from Thai funk –> modern hip hop: I saw this particular song filter through Soundcloud and various Thai funk compendiums over the past five years; what a…
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Kentucky Fried Gai
Rolling through these mean trademark-infringing streets.
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Thai Beef Meets US Beef
I offered the ox a taste of beef, but he refused, saying that he was Hindu, and although this could be viewed as narcissistic, it hardly hinted at cannibalism. “Besides,”…
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Beef Basil Stir Fry with Lotus Seeds
I can never stop experimenting with new ingredients for krapow. Also, a drippy fried egg makes everything taste better.
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Maha Sarakham Police Using Sasumata
This is an interesting video I found on FB, purportedly from this article in the Nation, although I can’t find it there. It’s interesting mainly because the nonlethal weapon sasumata…
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Bengal Currants (carissa carandas)
I only started commonly seeing these berry-like fruits this year. They seem to be growing in popularity up here in Issan, but I suspect they were brought here from another…
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Misushit?
This is probably the best Matsushita knockoff name, ever (combined with a retailer’s misspelling) – and that’s saying a lot since Matsushita and National brands were folded into Panasonic years ago.…
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The Best Braised Pork Leg in Issan
Google review of Panom Rung Restaurant by Justin Yoshida https://goo.gl/maps/cShnNWMJMcu Staring locals. Scary truckers in the dark, broken parking lot… Raw chili and garlic in a dirty center bowl. Unapologetically…
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Moo Daeng (“Red Pork”)
The Thai variant of char siu is often too lean and served with overly sweet sauce… This place does it well, though.
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Living Yearbook
So we saw this driving down the street last week. It’s the end of term here, and this may be the new equivalent of signing yearbooks here.
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Tom Cruise Eating Chicken in Khon Kaen
555: Someone pretended to be Tom Cruise in a small chicken shop in North Eastern Thailand and is remembered there forever byu/SuddenlyOutOfNoWhere inpics
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The King of Thailand with a Nissan Cefiro A33
Some years ago, Nissan presented the King of Thailand, his majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej Rama IX, with the last Cefiro A33 produced in its one million unit production run in Thailand. A good…
