By admin | October 18, 2009
While wandering around in Chiang Rai we encountered a tiny little shop specializing in homemade ice cream and sherbet. I picked santal (gratawn [à¸à¸£à¸°à¸—้à¸à¸™] in Thai) over the other interesting flavors which included durian and longan.
By admin | August 6, 2009
Thai cuisine is notorious for including chili dips containing just about anything. And, if you can withstand the spice, they are all extraordinarily tasty. I have posted about quite a few different chili dips (nam prik [น้ำพริà¸]) in the past, and I plan to write about many more in the future. This particular one is […]
Well, you can never have too many photos of scorpions so here you go!
This is a skewer of grilled chicken gizzards (sitting on top a bag of hot dogs, of course). Called gun gai yang [à¸à¸¶à¹‹à¸™à¹„à¸à¹ˆà¸¢à¹ˆà¸²à¸‡] in Thai, gizzards are a secondary stomach used by some animals to grind up food. They are actually quite a popular food throughout the world. I am actually very surprised this is […]
This year for the 4th of July we all went over to a friend’s house for a nice BBQ. It was great! We had all sorts of our favorite foods including hot dogs and hamburgers, macaroni salad, potato salad, corn, potatoes, and even kielbasi and sauerkraut. I brought pork and chicken kebabs in two different […]
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Well, it didn’t take long to prepare those. Throw them into the wok with a bit of soy sauce and there you go. So now I have this stir-fried assortment of bugs sitting in front of me. I won’t be digging in too much, though. I just had a sample of each and that is […]
I came home just the other day to discover that someone had purchased a bag of treats. Maybe I should be more specific and say a bag of Thai treats…AKA bugs. Yep, I encountered a variety bag of bugs including grasshoppers (dtakadaen [ตั๊à¸à¹à¸•à¸™]), water beetles (malaeng dtapdtao [à¹à¸¡à¸¥à¸‡à¸•à¸±à¸šà¹€à¸•à¹ˆà¸²]), and mole crickets (malaeng sawn[à¹à¸¡à¸¥à¸‡à¸‹à¸à¸™]). I have […]
By admin | April 18, 2009
Alright, you knew it was going to happen. It happens every year. So here it is: the obligatory trash plate post. Boy, my mouth is watering just looking at these. I should start selling these in Thailand. At least give my friends who have never heard of such a thing witness the magic within. I […]
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By admin | February 13, 2009
I was at Chatujak Market around Valentine’s Day this year where I encountered some Thai TV stars and their crew promoting these chocolate covered seaweed treats. It’s a very odd combination and reminds me of something the people that eat peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches might enjoy. Seaweed is very popular in Thailand even though […]
By admin | February 13, 2009
I wasn’t even fully aware that birds really had tongues, but sure enough here we have a plate full of grilled duck tongues (ลิ้นเป็ดย่าง [lin bped yaang]). Duck tongues aren’t terribly common, but if you go somewhere with an extensive menu you might run into them. They are considered a drinking snack and we ordered […]
