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I've noticed that in Thailand folks like to deep fry cuts of meat that falangs would either grill, pan fry or roast, including pork ribs(???)

anyone else got the same observation?...and I realise that most thai households don't have ovens and wouldn't know what to do with one if they had...

Yes I know what you mean.My wife will take strips of pork and marinate it in garlic and fish sauce.Then place out in the sun for a day to dry,then deep fry in oil.I really like it,a different take on jerky.We dip it in piknampla.A way that I like beef but the wife does not.You marinate the beef strips in fish sauce and sugar,then pat with crushed black pepper and corriander seeds and dry in an oven on low until dry.makes a great beef jerky.

Coder the wife told me awhile back that most Thais do not eat beef because it is to expensive.Since they grewup without it by the time it is offered to them they just do not think it tastes good.I could understand why being that they want it WELL WELL done.

Pumpuiman being that the marinade was in Hawaaii I would think that it was Japenese in origian.If it had brown sugar and vinager added to it, it would be teriyaky sauce/marinade.Add corn or rice starch and simmer for a bit until thick and you have a teriyaky dipping sauce.The enzyme in papaya is a tenderizer.If you where to look at most commercial meat tenderizers they are made from the same enzyme.How I love food!!!

Oh as to the two fantastic cuts of boneless rib eye steaks.The wife as usual,when she will eat beef at all,had me cook hers WELL WELL done.It is very diffecult for me to not burn a steak when you want it cooked so well done,but I can.

We love Thai food so much that we eat it very day.But then again my wife is from Issan.

Well keeping with the origanal poster, here is a photo of an Issan meal.

My first suggestion would be not to cook individual steaks, but two or three to be sliced, and shared family style.This would be more familiar to them. I would serve rice and some vegetables as well.Dont worry about changing your spices...make it the way you do at home.

My Thai wife likes things very well done, I cant say if that is a trait, or personal preference.

I grilled a steak once, a perfect medium rare. No one would try it, actually several people were disgusted by the fact that I was eating it "not cooked". I had far better success with chicken-fried pork covered in saute'd mushroom and onions. By far, the families favorite food I make is fried calamari. All very simple but exotic for Thais.

That was my wife's exact phrase..."not cooked"........perhaps it is a "Thai" thing to like well done meat. I wouldn't be surprised, with the lack of refrigeration in many Thai homes.

There is refrigeration but if they have Beer Chang it goes in first,and the leftovers get stored in a cabnite.See photos

Oh and back to the subject of steak.Try serving some koa laom and pla to with it.

I will be coming to Thailand in late December for my second visit. Last time I practiced Muay Thai with a couple of instructors and enjoyed it, though not very good at it. What I would like to do this time is to combine Muay Thai with a rigorous health and fitness program for a couple of week, losing about 8 kilos. I am about 12 kilos overweight. Need a place where the instructor is very strict about doing exercises and monitoring my weight and diet and 24 hour supervision, even to the point of using a cane for reluctance or non compliance. Previously I found instructors good but this thing about being a foreigner with money inhibits their ability to exercise their full authority. It seems the more money that you offer them the least likely they are to be pushy or impose penalties, whit means in the end I lose little weight even though I do enjoy it. Anyone with suggestions or contacts?

I since a little S&M here.Tell him you like to be wacked and punished if you do not do the full program.And that you will pay him very well.I think you will get what you are looking for.

One word.........MISTAKE.........Do'nt do it

Udon . I stopped my building plans around Udon because of land diputes with the family .I had a 85 m2 2 story house ready in the rough . Bottom part concrete -top in lumber for frame ,floors , walls and roof .

When I stopped I recoverd all lumber used (moer then 1/2 has not jet been used at all -floors etc)

I have approx 100000Baht worth of lumber stored in a dry shed in Udon ,available for sale for 60-70 % of the value.

Anyone intersted ,please contact me.

JUERGEN

Are you way up north???

I would be interested in this timber to build house for my wifes sister, but maybe you to far away to retrieve the timber

macb

When the wife and I built our home, 20km north west of PhiMai we got our used wood shipped from around the RoiEt area.We had to buy very little new wood to complet the home.

But I would think that to get wood,amount to build a home from Udon to Buriram would be a bit to much to make it worth while.But to get good quality wood is expensive anymore.New or used.

Cheers wongsa,

Yes I have had the pleasure of the fantastic "rolling Thai Stereo". I had one for our wedding in our little moo ban 60km north of Korat. Here is a photo.

I was visiting a friend on the other side of the moo ban, about 200m away, and I hear some LOAD LukTung. I love LukTung and Morlam. All of a sudden she jumps up and starts yelling the stereo is here!!! the stereo is here!!!I have to say when we went back over to my wife to be's home my ears began to hurt from the high decibles of the thing!I told her it gets turned down a notch,which she did not understand until I said need more quiet, or I am out of here.Well they did turn it down a notch if only a little notch. But what the heck it is a party for the whole moo ban not just me.

Thai food has such a variaty of flavors and ingredents I do'nt know how I could ever get tired of it.

Somehow, I'd have to think that those ancient temples have been underwater before. Since they are not going to float away I don't see a lot of damage.

If you had ever been to the Phimai area you would understand.It now has many people living around the area.And has for many years.

I am really curious to know how a fake passport works.

How do you fake a passport that supposedly has a chip in it?

My daughter just recived her new US passport and it does not have a chip in it.The US is suppose to be doing that in the futare but I guess not yet.

This is the program that I use.It is free and very easy to understand.

http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

Forgive my ignorance. I don't actually know that what he was offering were buffalo. They were off-white, with horns, and everywhere I see them herded on the village streets presumably to and fro feediing spots. Farmer I am not. LOL

They were, however, very healthy and robust.

Just a few of the "Buffalo" in the Kingdom

I lived in a village in NST called Chian Yai. Horrible place, awful people. They'd walk up and laugh in your face and talk about you without even waiting for you to get out of earshot. Funerals every week, no lie. At times there were more than one a week, loud drunken pagan rituals all through the night. Murders, drivebys, street dogs had controll, there were thousands of them barking all night long. There were 40 policemen stationed there but they never did anything. One day there was a driveby near my house and my neighbor was there, he's a cop. A 20-year-old boy was shot five times. He said there'd be no investigation, I asked why, and he said the dead guy was a trouble maker. And here's the killer .. the population was 1600. Now when two people a week die in a town of 1600 ya just have ta wonder.

No you do not live there you survive there."horrible place,awful people".I have never been there or know anyone there but why do you stay if you are in my opinnion in danger and unhappy very strange indeed!!!

Sorry just noticed the I lived in

What is with the fake crab mixed in with the fresh fish??

It looks terible, and smells bad also.

You forgot one thing,,,,,It does not taste like crab and it is nasty tasteing!

Hello,

What's your favorite Thai food you success to do at home?

Do you take lesson to success this food?

What's the essential ustensil/ingredient for cooking in Thailand?

Thanks again for ur answer.

The wife does all the cooking. Here are the ingredients for her soup (chicken breasts not shown).

What no nam pla?

You never truly know what is in those meatballs.If the ones you eat are "beef" and they seem to chew like rubber then you are probably eating beef tendon meatballs.That is a mix of the meat and tendons from the cow and some spices thrown in.Thais do like them and me to that way.

No it is not really sick if you eat meat.What is the difference?It is an animal.And believe it or not, it really is not that bad.Just tough if not cooked forever.In Ban Tha Rae in the province of Sakon Nakhon they do drive around and pick up dogs to sell for consumption.And yes that is what you get for the dog ,one basket.I would not be suprised if that is where that photo was taken.That does not mean that all Thai people eat dog only that thay "sell" the dog for one basket.Some of them end up in the markets around Nakhon Phanom close to the Lao boarder.

No, but we are thinking about having one. The grease fumes go everywhere! Either that, or get a really good exhaust hood for the stovetop.

Our "Thai" kitchen in the US is outside and inside.If we are cooking bla too or something that makes alot of smoke or just smells very strong like bla too we cook outside.We also cook our khao niaow outside because the pot and basket will not fit on the indoor stove under the exahust fan.

But maybe by the title of the post and photo they mean do you cook Thai ?

YES most all of the time.

What is with the fake crab mixed in with the fresh fish??

??????

The cheap way and I do not like sweet and sour sauce but to each their own.

1 cup ketchup

1 cup vinager

1 cup sugar

6 tablespoons corn starch

mix all and heat

EASY but my oppinion

what is this stuff ? my neighbours wife is addicted to it .she brings over a suitcase full of it ,smells too

howdy nostrel,

You already have the answer but I have a photo here also.It is of four different types of plah rah(fermented fish).I personly do not care for plah rah.When you ask for "som tom Thai" it will not usally be in it.But if you ask for "som tom Lao" you will get it made with plah rah.I love food!

I really do not see a problem here.If you are a true tourist no problem.If you are a true worker no problem.If you are a true retiere no problem.The problem is only if you do not get the proper visa and permites and lie to stay in the Kingdom.Do not like the rules oh well,mai pen rai.