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Notes from Thailand Dec 2021

shain

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shain

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43 minutes ago, KennethT said:

Do you remember what street or neighborhood was this in?

 

I should have mentioned. This is Bangkok's Chinatown - Yaowarat. Which is where we stayed.

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KennethT

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17 minutes ago, shain said:

 

I should have mentioned. This is Bangkok's Chinatown - Yaowarat. Which is where we stayed.

Did you go to Jay Fai while in Yaowarat?  Also, a very famous place in Yaowarat for Pad Thai - Thip Samai...

shain

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On 4/6/2022 at 12:33 AM, KennethT said:

Did you go to Jay Fai while in Yaowarat?  Also, a very famous place in Yaowarat for Pad Thai - Thip Samai...

 

Afraid not.

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shain

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Rice cakes with radish and spicey-sweet sauce.

 

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Crisp pancake (khanom bueang) with dried shrimp, coconut, scallions, sugar. Yum.

 

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Burmese food.

Split pea soup. Eggplant curry. Tamarind leave salad.

 

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Hi Shai,
I live in Chiang Mai. This thread is better than most of the food boards in CM. I love Burmese food but the plating of these dishes is better than most of the Burmese/Shan restaurants I go to. The tamarind leaf salad looks better than most too. The only restaurant I know that does an eggplant curry is the "Burmese Library" just off of Nimmanhaemin. Do you remember where you got these dishes? Thanks!

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6 hours ago, El Jefe said:

Hi Shai,
I live in Chiang Mai. This thread is better than most of the food boards in CM. I love Burmese food but the plating of these dishes is better than most of the Burmese/Shan restaurants I go to. The tamarind leaf salad looks better than most too. The only restaurant I know that does an eggplant curry is the "Burmese Library" just off of Nimmanhaemin. Do you remember where you got these dishes? Thanks!

 

Hi El, thanks for the kind words :) 

I envy you for living in Chiang Mai - such a charming city.

This restaurant is Nong Bee's. Though admittedly, I won't give it a strong recommendation, the food was very basic, a little too much MSG. Suited as well for a late night light-meal.

We sampled some very good Burmese around the Friday morning market (กาดนัดจีนยูนาน).

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shain

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The chef put up a show when he saw me taking pictures.

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Clams in garlic and chili. Spicy and lightly sweet, with yellow bean sauce.

 

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Pad woon sen. A bit oily, but you can taste the hot wok.

 

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Seafood pad cha. Seafood in a herbal sauce - got chili. garlic, basil, fingerroot, green peppercorn.

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With rice and cheap bad beer. That was one heck of a street food meal.

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KennethT

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The chef put up a show when he saw me taking pictures.

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Clams in garlic and chili. Spicy and lightly sweet, with yellow bean sauce.

 

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Pad woon sen. A bit oily, but you can taste the hot wok.

 

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Seafood pad cha. Seafood in a herbal sauce - got chili. garlic, basil, fingerroot, green peppercorn.

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With rice and cheap bad beer. That was one heck of a street food meal.

I am positively drooling.  Thank you so much for posting this.  I wish I had access to fresh peppercorns.  I have frozen fingerroot which is pretty good, but the brined peppercorns are 1 step up from flavorless.

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There's something special about hot steamed buns on a chili morning.

 

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Weekend market.

 

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Pandan and palm sugar drink.

 

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Sago with coconut.

 

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2 questions - what is the slingshot aimed aat and what is the shiny black in the leaf cup?

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@shain, I have always admired your travelogue photography (as well as your cooking photography). But this trip, you have outdone yourself.

 

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shain

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40 minutes ago, heidih said:

2 questions - what is the slingshot aimed aat and what is the shiny black in the leaf cup?

 

Those are tin cans, 1 baht per shoot. We did OK :P

In the leaf is some starch jelly, this one colored dark blue with pea flowers. Beans, corn and barley on top.

 

42 minutes ago, kayb said:

@shain, I have always admired your travelogue photography (as well as your cooking photography). But this trip, you have outdone yourself.

 

Thank you!

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KennethT

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What did you think of the pandan/palm sugar drink?  To me, pandan always tastes like rice in my head. Not that that is a bad thing - but usually I've had it mixed with other flavors - like in a kueh or something.

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What did you think of the pandan/palm sugar drink?  To me, pandan always tastes like rice in my head. Not that that is a bad thing - but usually I've had it mixed with other flavors - like in a kueh or something.

Interesting because my limited descriptive powers have always associated pandan and the smell of fragrant Thai jasmine rice with a sort of vanilla aroma/taste. I had a thing for the pandan Swiss roll at some local markets for a while.

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What is the first picture of?

I'm guessing tamarind

Yep

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4 hours ago, KennethT said:

What did you think of the pandan/palm sugar drink?  To me, pandan always tastes like rice in my head. Not that that is a bad thing - but usually I've had it mixed with other flavors - like in a kueh or something.

 

Pretty mild, I can see the likeness to rice. It was tasty, especially due to being sweet and cold in hot weather.

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Look up "Pithecellobium dulce (Benth).

A native of Mexico. Has an interesting taste. The red fleshed variety is sweeter. In Shain's photo it's ripe ad ready to eat raw.

 

Nice trip, Shain. I went there twice, in 2000 and 2001, before having digital cameras and not knowing much about the amazing food there.

 

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Suan Luang Rama IX park and botanic gardens.

More photos to follow.

 

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Overwhelming beauty. So nice to see a place so different, truly defines "exotic" across the board in landscape and food.

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