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

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Common baby gecko

These little guys probably have a survival rate of 1 in a thousand or so. They can sprint for short spurts, but are easy prey for predators like birds and…

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June 20, 2020
Old Blog Entries (archives), Society & Culture, Work

Blogging on Break

I drove to a Lawson’s (convenience store) today to buy bottled water on my lunch break. It seems I am doing this with increased frequency lately. There is something inherently…

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July 23, 2003
Web

Panzerfaucito

Too many beans in Chez Whitey’s burrito? UPDATE: Read the article in the extended entry.

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February 10, 2005
  • Cars,  Photos

    Sunbed

    October 13, 2017 / 1 Comment

    True opportunists.

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    Justin

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  • Around Mahasarakham,  Exploits,  Oh, baby!,  Photos

    Saturday Shopping

    September 30, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Family bike trip lol.

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  • Food,  Photos,  Thai Society/Culture

    Avocado toast and eggs

    September 26, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Is Northeast Thailand ready for an avotoast cafe? I’m sure not gonna find out! Our town must have the highest turnover for coffee-related businesses in the world.

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  • Food,  Oh, baby!,  Photos

    Day of Grub

    September 24, 2017 / 6 Comments

    It all started out with French toast and banana milkshakes for breakfast, and continued into lunch at our friend’s nearby restaurant where the kids had noodles and fried rice, and we had various curries and braised meats. We made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with walnuts in the late afternoon, then I went to my Turkish pal’s house to get continued instruction on various salads, sauces, and kebab. I took a big bag of food home and the kids chowed down. Tomorrow is school for them, so the sad silence before bed has begun.   Bonus Kebab Assembly Vids:

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  • Food,  Videos

    Costco Onion Banchan Documentary

    September 20, 2017 / 2 Comments

    How the heck did I miss this until now? Kinda like the best documentary ever, using the oldest pawn shop equipment available. Awesome. This is the reddit page my mom thoughtfully sent me: Costco Kimchi I’m sure Kevin must have mentioned it at some point, but I’d never heard of this practice until today.

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  • Exploits,  Our New Thai House,  Photos

    I found a dinosaur

    September 20, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I found this on the street just in front of our house last week. Either it got run over during the rainstorm the night before, or the cats claimed another victim.

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    January 4, 2012

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    May 10, 2013

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    December 26, 2010
  • Food,  Photos

    Smoking Pork Ribs with Lamyai Wood

    September 16, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Outside cooking in Southeast Asia sometimes means grilling in between thunderstorms… But the beer is cold and the cats are comfortingly selfish, plus the freshly cut lamyai (longan) smells so damn good when it burns.

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    Mosquitoes Eating Fruit (Part 3 – Japanese Apples)

    January 5, 2015

    Culinary subversion (Pancake Puff vs. Moffle)

    August 9, 2008

    Hua Hin Seafood Joint

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  • Japanese Society/Culture,  Music,  Videos,  Web

    Finnish Polka Idoru – A Video Chronology of Loituma (from 17th Century Scandinavia to Modern Day Japan)

    September 10, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Disclaimer: The following is an approximate timeline; mistakes are inevitable. This is more of a way for me to record a collection of nodal points in case I want to revisit them in the future. Methodology: YouTube embeds with sparse linkage to other sites. Why YouTube only? I’m inclined to track views on the embedded videos as well, because I have a hunch that they tie into something larger than Japanese Anime-Finnish Polka synergy. 1. In the Beginning, there was Stiff Bread Finnish quartet Loituma releases “Ievan Polkka” (Eva’s Polka) in 1996. They seem to be as popular and relevant as you would expect a Finnish quartet to be at any…

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  • Food,  Oh, baby!,  Photos

    Max and Mina’s Fish and Chips

    September 4, 2017 / 2 Comments

    Uncle Andreas got us a bottle of malt vinegar, so we decided to make beer batter and fry up some fish. Unfortunately, the local Makro didn’t have much of a fish selection, so we settled on (ahem!) Issan cod. Max and Mina did most of the prep, and I was on fry duty. Today’s cooking vocabulary included: Deboning, scaling, pin bones, fins, gills, gutting, ounces, even spoonful, heaping spoonful, all purpose flour, sodium bicarbonate, sifting, dredging, frying oil, and fire extinguisher. #englishforcooking #cookingwithglenmo #culinarylinguistics

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  • Cars,  Thai Society/Culture

    Triumph Motorcycles Production in Thailand

    September 3, 2017 / 0 Comments

    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 to do certain processes that we wouldn’t be able to do in the UK… So, every company has had to make a choice, in terms of where it’s going to source its components from globally. And some companies are comfortable with saying, “OK, I’m going to go and work with a supplier in China, or – I’m going to buy my complete engines (in some cases) from a different company”. That’s never been Triumph’s way of doing business. John Bloor…

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