What’s cooking? UK foreign secretary tries hand at Som Tam

By The Nation

 

 

During his recent visit to Thailand, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson not only savoured Thai food but also made his own “Som Tam” for the first time.

 

A video posted on Friday on @ukinthailand, the Facebook page of the British Embassy in Bangkok, showed Johnson cooking Som Tam or green papaya salad, one of the most commonly available and popular dishes in Thailand. The dish traces its origins to the country’s Northeast.

 

Johnson met Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o- cha and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai last Monday to discuss UK-Thai relations.

 

 

Johnson’s visit to Thailand was preceded by stopovers in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

 

After his return to UK, Johnson appeared to joke about sex tourism in Thailand during a major speech about Brexit in his home country but the British Embassy in Thailand insisted that he had made no mention of sex tourism.

 

According to the embassy, Johnson said: “… I have just discovered we have more than a million people who go to Thailand every year, where our superb consular services deal with some of the things that they get up to there.”

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30339102

 

 

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I can't fathom how and why a foreign secretary find himself making a som tam?

is this one of the ' eye popping' activities 1 million brits get into while in Thailand

 he was talking about the other day?....

2 minutes ago, ezzra said:

I can't fathom how and why a foreign secretary find himself making a som tam?

is this one of the ' eye popping' activities 1 million brits get into while in Thailand

 he was talking about the other day?....

When he's pounding papaya, he can't be talking at the same time, and that is the only way to keep him from embarrassing the UK.

It maybe useful for Boris to know when pissed in a northern accent som tam I talk a right load of brexit crap.

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

I can't fathom how and why a foreign secretary find himself making a som tam?

is this one of the ' eye popping' activities 1 million brits get into while in Thailand

 he was talking about the other day?....

It would be eye-popping if he got one of those chilli seeds in his eye.

cooking Som Tam or green papaya salad

 

must be different recipe to what the missus uses 

evil,nasty stuff can't bear to be around it. Apparently it is Thailand's greatest invention.

Is this one of the eye-popping things British citizens get up in Thailand that cause them to need assistance from our "superb" consular service?  Do consular staff visit once you have given yourself the runs from eating this stuff?

cooking Som Tam or green papaya salad
 
must be different recipe to what the missus uses 

Actually when my wife makes som tam she refers to it as cooking. I know what she means and it makes me smile.

6 hours ago, tonray said:

When he's pounding papaya, he can't be talking at the same time, and that is the only way to keep him from embarrassing the UK.

He'd have been better off pounding some of the other secular activities Thailand has on offer !!!!................

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Johnson cooking Som Tam

Ummm.... Johnson making Som Tam perhaps.... cooking involves heat, but Somtam is pok pok pok... no cooking involved!!!

He is planning to serve it to the Cabinette, to speed up Brexit

 

"I brought you a little treat from my recent trip to land of smiles, take a big mouthful"

1 hour ago, ScotBkk said:

He'd have been better off pounding some of the other secular activities Thailand has on offer !!!!................

Secular? I think there's a lot who pound quite religiously.

 

22 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Secular? I think there's a lot who pound quite religiously.

 

Divine Prostitution springs to mind .........................

4 minutes ago, ScotBkk said:

Divine Prostitution springs to mind .........................

Not sure which is the correct response to that:

Pray tell more, or, Prey, tell more.

He couldn't cook the books; that's why UK pensioners' state pension has been frozen (for me) for ten years!

As a salad some tam is not cooked. it is prepared.