Thailand. BBQ with friends.

The other night I finally had a BBQ at my house and invited a few friends over. I bought the cooker a little while back and had given it a small test run but this was its first big test.

We bought small mollusks called hoy, chicken, pork fillet and pork ribs and our friends were bringing some prawns and another Thai favourite called Kanom Gin which is a noodle and you mix with a fish sauce and some vegetables, oh, and of course, papaya salad

We marinated the pork and chicken in different marinades. I did one set of ribs in a honey and soy sauce and they were very popular. A god surprise was from my Pommy mate John who had bought some French bread and made some garlic butter to make garlic bread. It was bloody delicious.

I had lit the fire a good 30 minutes before my friends were to arrive so it would give it time to catch on and then die down a little to a good grilling heat. The big pieces of chicken went on first and then the pork followed.

I stole my friend’s hamburger recipe The NH Bushman American hamburgers and the only little thing I added was a splash of Worcestershire Sauce. They did cook really well and with the cob style bread I bought and sliced and then filled with salad and a lovely mayonnaise sauce, I really enjoyed them and also others as well.

Now John and his wife Da brought along some prawns and to my horror when I went into the kitchen they had all been boiled. I still put some on the BBQ to give them the BBQ’d taste.

This is a really bad picture of the fresh salad we had to accompany our food, sorry.


This is the hoy or mollusks, kanom gin and papaya salad I mentioned before. Thais eat them all by the bucket load.


The girls were enjoying themselves a lot, food, gossip, food and gossip so it would be hard to not have fun. This is from left to right; in black is Oom, in yellow is John’s wife Da and in red is Keith’s wife Sarah.
Here they are playing up for the camera, must have been the one can of beer they drank, actually Sarah doesn’t drink.





Now the surprise of the night was pommy John. He disappeared for a few minutes and returned dressed in a Thai style sarong that you see the men in the village wearing. He also had a Thai instrument called a ‘can’. It is used to play Mor Lum music which is very popular here in Isaan country.



He was charming Sarah off her seat as you can tell by her huge smile. It was a very funny moment.

Well we all ate and ate and there was still so much food left and I over catered for the night. That’s okay as BBQ meat always tastes better the next day I think anyway.


All up it was a great night with friends and I actually had a few glasses of beer with Keith and John. Keith had to leave as his youngest daughter was tired but John and I kicked on just chatting as you do at these things until midnight and his wife pleaded with him to go home.

I am looking forward to more nights like this in the near future.

Brunty.