Monthly Archives: June 2006

Stir fried chicken giblets

Well, this is a dish I hope not to eat again anytime soon. Take all the pieces of a chicken you wouldn’t usually eat, throw them in a skillet, add a few seasonings, and this is what you get. To be honest, the taste wasn’t all that bad. It’s mostly just the chewy, chunky, stringy, […]

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Baby tamarinds

Sorry for the poor photo, but here we have a bag of ‘baby tamarinds’ known as makaam awn [มะขามอ่อน].  They are basically very young, unripe tamarinds.  As a result, they are very, very sour.  That’s why there is a bag of sugar and chili mix to dip them in.  Since there is little to no […]

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