Food, glorious (Thai) food!

I love good Thai food. 

I say "good' because i have certainly tasted some food that would not fall into that catergory!

 

Most Thai food is... seriously delicious!

We had to laugh though when the dish pictured below was put on the table for our visitor. We thought "oh, isn't that nice of our staff to be so caring to our visitor. How lovely of them." But after seeing the look of shock on our friend's face, we realised that this was not "normal" where she was from. We had to assure her that she didn't have to actually EAT the fish head- even though the children didn't understand why she wasn't thrilled to be given this tasty morsel!

 

 

The Thais are famous for the four" s's" - sweet, salty, sour and spicy!

 

Green curry chicken aka "Gaeng Kiew wan gai."

Satay pork and peanut sauce. The chillies are mixed with the cucumber and vinegar.

 

Fish sauce is served at the table along with chillies in vinegar, dried chilli and sugar so you can add your own flavourings to taste.

Having fish sauce with our meal is now as natural as having salt and pepper on the table!

This is a common sight in Thai restaurants in Thailand. Sugar, fish sauce, vinegar and of course -chilli!
I had to laugh recently when I carefully 'held back' the chillies and scooped out a little vinegar to put on my noodle dish. Afterwards, the Thai man next to me carefully scooped out some chilli to put on his dish, leaving the vinegar to fall back into the jar!

Surprisingly many dishes are not spicy.

Of course you can add the chilli later!

 

The children enjoyed a visit to our staff member's village. Even the little one pictured had a ball - even though this is not her 'best shot!'

 

 

On of our favourite things to do with visitors is have a "muu khataa" - a lovely way to sit and eat and cook your own food. Dr Warwick and our lovely Jojo enjoyed eating our special Thai feast!

 

A famous dish of Northern Thailand is "Khaow soy" which is a noodle dish with curry. Yummm!

Our volunteer Amy asked what the khaow soy tasted like. "Is it spicy?" she asked? "No, but it's very flavoursome" was my reply. Amy believes I have lost my taste buds...or my mind! She found it to be VERY spicy!

This is another much loved Thai meal. In fact our kids salivate at the sight of grilled chicken, sticky rice and mango salad (don't ask for it to be a 'little spicy' as the Thai's will only add 3 or 4 chillies instead of the quarter of a chilli that you would like!

 

 

Thai's LOVE sweet food. Here is our sweet Jump, our oldest girl enjoying a tiny cake.

They love their fruit too - many of which we have not grown up with.

 

 

And the Thai's are quite famous for their fruit carving.

I haven't quite mastered the art yet!

 

Jump with the skin of a Thai fruit - som oh.

As you would... lol

 

And here is Jo and Mia getting in on the act... 



Jo helped us to care for little Mia who needed some specialised medical help.

More about this special little girl another time.

Hope you have enjoyed reading.

Until next time,

With love from Sam