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

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    Shoyu chili garlic fish sauce wings

    October 21, 2010 /

    It’s made like how it sounds (plus braised in Japanese sake to finish). It tastes how it looks. I suppose you could call them water buffalo wings. Did you know that shoyu (soy sauce) is the root word of “soy” in English? And that perhaps the best of example of a loan word from the Thai language in English is “bong?” Cooking and linguistics are both a delicious jumble of influences and flavors.

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