Ahh…the mango tree in front of my house. I still haven’t figured out how it works. The fruits are psuedo-seasonal (I guess) but they come at seemingly unrelated parts of the year and in varying sized batches. The trick is being able to time it well enough to let them grow nice and [...]
This is some ox tail soup I ordered in Jakarta. The soup was pretty good with a tasty broth. I did get a huge chunk of bony tail. In fact, it was so large that the majority of the bowl was filled with the bone. That’s too bad, though, because there was only [...]
This here is an Isaan dish called supnawmai [ซุบหน่อไม้]. It is basically a bamboo salad in a similar vein as somtom. I really enjoy this dish and for a little while was going on a binge ordering ever day. It is nice and sour from the pickled bamboo that forms it’s base, but [...]
This is an interesting, leafy vegetable that is common around Thailand but I’ve never seen elsewhere. In English it is called water mimosa (sometimes water minosa), and in that it is called pak grachet [ผักกระเฉ] or pak runawn [ผักรู้นอน]. The pak grachet name seems to be much more common. It is one [...]
Here’s a strange fruit, called gratawn [กระท้อน], but known as santol in English. A bit large, about the size of a grapefruit with the same thickness of skin, but definitely not a citrus fruit. The taste is very strange; a combination of sour, bitter, and sweet. The texture is also odd, like [...]
While sounding weird, this dish is amazingly simple: ants mixed with coconut. In Thai called miang mod daeng sai maphrao [เมี่ยงมดแดงใส่มะพร้าว] which literally means ‘mixed ants with coconut’. From what I hear, they collect the ants by knocking their nest out of a tree into a basket. Then they have to quickly (these [...]
Here’s a plate of catfish pieces from Dinosaur BBQ. I prefer to call them catfish ‘fingers’. nothing too odd about these, but they are very different from the catfish in Thailand. Thais eat a lot of catfish (bplaa duk [ปลาดุก]) prepared in many ways. Thailand is also known for some of the largest catfish in [...]
Here’s an entree of scallops from a restaurant in Rochester. Nothing too strange about this one, but it was so tasty I couldn’t resist posting the picture. While scallops are common in some asian cuisines, it is rare to find them in Thailand. As far as I know, even though the use of shellfish is [...]
Well, everytim I make it back to the US, I must have a trash plate at some point during the trip. Here’s this visit’s. Wow it makes my mouth water just looking at this photo. Too bad there’s nothing like this available in Bangkok.
Here’s a nice collection of some less common meats. I certainly wouldn’t consider these rare or strange, but we don’t see them all that often. And they sure are tasty! This is venison, goose, and pheasant all three of which my friend hunted and smoked for our eating pleasure. We should have made some Thai [...]
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