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Triumph Motorcycles Production in Thailand
Triumph is alive and thriving in Thailand (300 units/week): OK, but why did they ever go to Thailand in the first place? “It was primarily for us to be able…
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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
