Everyone knows who has lived here in Thailand for a while that Thai people can really put food away and they can do it many times a day, especially the Thai girls who seem to fit more than they should be able to in their small and tiny frames.
There are so many types of food available at these sort of events but many are simple kebab style processed meat sticks and noodles and fried rice dishes. These are very popular with the Thai people.
This is a noodle and fish sauce dish that you mix vegetables into and eat and is very nice. It’s called Kanom Jin.
The second dish is a soup called Guatti ow. It comes with an assortment of meats and also vegetables.
There is always deep fried and steamed kebab style meats (Luching) on offer. They come in many different flavours of processed meats and young Thai kids really like them as they are cheap and you can eat plenty of salad with them. This also causes some problems as these aren’t really healthy and obesity is starting to take a hold in young Thai people.
Thais love eating sour green mango (Mang Mouang) and for good measure mix some chili and smelly fish sauce and add it and then you have a work of art that is truly disgusting.
More luching on offer.
There are also strange things such as dried fish which is very smelly and I am sure for Thai people delicious.
There are always many sweets on offer. These are called Kanom Buang and are like a crispy batter filled with a cream.
Next was a burger and is very popular here. They take a grilled hotdog and a piece of fried chicken and put some salad in a bun and some sauce and you get a chicken/hotdog burger.
Right next door was some good sized and looking waffles which come with ample syrup to spill all over yourself.
There were also lots of grilled meats like chicken, pork, beef and livers and hearts and so forth.
We stumbled across some very good looking chicken and beef kebabs. They were big and looked delicious and we ordered 10. At 10 baht each I thought a bargain. When I tried a chicken kebab the look was a good as the taste and got 10 out of 10.
Don't they look good!
So as usual there was plenty to do and also to eat at the Lenten Candle Festival.
Brunty
2 comments:
This makes me hungry...
Mhmmm.... *dreaming of unlimited amounts of thai food*
Funny story about the luching:
at my place we pronounce it look chin, and I've eaten them since childhood. However, I don't speak thai so well, so sometimes my mum practices my thai with me. She was talking about my boyfriend and how happy to have him as a son in law (in Denmark, it's very in to call your bf or gf's family in-laws while in reality not being married).
Of course, I was very happy, even though I already knew how happy my mum was about my bf. Nothing like a good praise now and again, and then a scowling about the no good dead beats my cousins bring home.
Then in the evening, I began wondering why my mum had called my boyfriend look chin, as I was sure that meant meatballs on a stick. I asked her about it, only to see my mum suffer from a fit of laughing. She just couldn't stop. Concerning, I thought.
It turns out, my mum hadn't called him look chin, but look keuy. Since that my boyfriend got himself a new nick name: meatball or look chin.
This turned out to be quite a lot, I might as well go on and blog it.
Enjoy the candle festival!
Hugs
Line
Yes, unlimited Thai food and mostly very yummy.
Ha I look forward to reading that blog as it sounds very funny and being called meatball isn't so bad could be worse!!
I often say things in Thai that gets great fits of laughter as well and when explained what I said at times I can understand why.
Have a great day.
Brunty.
P.s Really enjoyed the candle festival and have heaps of pictures to post
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