Isaan Country – Farmer`s Breakfast
Farmers Breakfast. In western counntries this means bread, egg, bacon, cheese. None of this has a tradition in Thailand – especially not in the Isaan countryside. Over there you will find Chicken-Stew instead. I calle it Chicken-Stew because there are all parts of the chicken in it. Even the feet and the intestines. And of course you will find Som Tam – Papaya Salad. Hot like hell but always tasty. In ddition everything that is green an grows on the side of the road.
To get into the mood: The Iron Buffalo. A multi-purpose machine which can be used as tractor, car, power generator und much more. The possibilities are almost unlimited.
Never to be missing. Chillies as much as possible. Isaan has the hottest Papaya salad of all Thailand.
Typically Isaan: Kaao Niao – Sticky Rice. In Thailand`s Northeast people eat with their fingers. The stiky rice helps doing so. You take a big lump of sticky rice in your left hand. With your right hand you will break smaller pieces from it away which you put in your mouth together with the actual dish. The rice is also used as some kind of spoon. Eating with your fingers isn`t as easy as you might think. During my first trials I always looked like a 3 year old after eating spaghetti.
Now it gets a little bit fishy. Thai cuisine tastes great but once in a while smells pretty bad. Fish sauce (left) is for some Europeans already unbearable but “Pla Ra”-Sauce is just cruel. It`s kinda sauce mde from rotten fish – the spice of Isaan . Even some Thais from Bangkok get cramps in their stomachs after eating it. I don`t have a problem with it though I would not drink from that bottle.
Like always the most beautiful at the end: Lao Kaao – Rice Liquor. Brute stuff if you drink it pure. Even the rice farmers of Isaan have to drink a big gulp of water afterwards. At Mor Lam-Festivals this spirit works grea with me. At least people say so, because I could never remember.
Tags: thailand thai udon thani kumpapwapi country tradition Koonsay esarn e-sarn issan, isaan
To get into the mood: The Iron Buffalo. A multi-purpose machine which can be used as tractor, car, power generator und much more. The possibilities are almost unlimited.
Never to be missing. Chillies as much as possible. Isaan has the hottest Papaya salad of all Thailand.
Typically Isaan: Kaao Niao – Sticky Rice. In Thailand`s Northeast people eat with their fingers. The stiky rice helps doing so. You take a big lump of sticky rice in your left hand. With your right hand you will break smaller pieces from it away which you put in your mouth together with the actual dish. The rice is also used as some kind of spoon. Eating with your fingers isn`t as easy as you might think. During my first trials I always looked like a 3 year old after eating spaghetti.
Now it gets a little bit fishy. Thai cuisine tastes great but once in a while smells pretty bad. Fish sauce (left) is for some Europeans already unbearable but “Pla Ra”-Sauce is just cruel. It`s kinda sauce mde from rotten fish – the spice of Isaan . Even some Thais from Bangkok get cramps in their stomachs after eating it. I don`t have a problem with it though I would not drink from that bottle.
Like always the most beautiful at the end: Lao Kaao – Rice Liquor. Brute stuff if you drink it pure. Even the rice farmers of Isaan have to drink a big gulp of water afterwards. At Mor Lam-Festivals this spirit works grea with me. At least people say so, because I could never remember.
Tags: thailand thai udon thani kumpapwapi country tradition Koonsay esarn e-sarn issan, isaan
Jessica Flores - 6. Jun, 11:08
