Chiang Rai: Fried Chicken-Filled Stomachs Make Rescue Possible

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Fried Chicken-Filled Stomachs Make Rescue Possible

By Asaree Thaitrakulpanich, Staff Reporter

 

Fried chicken Thursday morning at the Tham Luang Nang Non camp.

 

CHIANG RAI — An army marches on its stomach – and Navy SEALs are no different. That’s why Parita Suwannawong, 53, started cooking since 3am on Thursday to make 300 servings of fried chicken and sticky rice to send into the cave.

 

The 13th day of the Tham Luang Nang Non operation to extract 12 boys and their football coach stuck in the cave complex dawned bright and early for the rescuers, and even earlier for those who volunteer to feed them out of their own pocket.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2018/07/05/fried-chicken-filled-stomachs-make-rescue-possible/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-07-05

[petermik]

Let,s hope it,s cooked properly and doesn,t lead to food poisoning...........

[webfact]

Amid cave drama, no one goes hungry

By Supira Sangharanont 
The Nation

 

Everyone involved in the Chiang Rai cave rescue operation is enjoying free meals of noodles after vendors at the Doi Wao Market in Mae Sai district pooled Bt30,000 to finance the scheme.
 

“This is the fourth day we’ve handed out noodles,” vendor Som Norkham said on Thursday. “A lot of the market people would like to come and cook for the officials and volunteers in person, but we don’t want a big crowd getting in the way, so we just have a few representatives doing it.”

 

The Doi Wao food hawkers aren’t the only ones keeping the rescue effort well nourished. Other people are voluntarily preparing and distributing meals, and His Majesty the King has arranged for a kitchen to be set up in front of the cave.

 

The free food reflects the nation’s gratitude for the officials’ and volunteers’ hard work. A Thai reporter who’s covered natural disasters overseas said he’d never before seen food distributed at such scenes so plentifully.

 

A Thai based in Britain who blogs on Facebook at Deserthousewife.diary surmised earlier this week that the generous feeding of the cave rescue teams stemmed from Thai people’s love of food, as famously suggested by the traditional greeting “Have you eaten yet?”

 

“We are not a rich nation, but when we cook a feast, we cover the whole neighbourhood,” the blogger wrote in a commentary that had earned 26,000 likes and 14,000 shares as of Thursday.

 

“We cannot stand seeing hungry people in our territory ... People of other nations may eat to live, but our nation people, we live to eat.”

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30349367

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-07-05

[Muzarella]

If those kids will have to dive...better to have an empty stomach.

[DM07]

Okay...now the press starts to really reach and the stories surrounding this case get a little ridiculous!

[Jonmarleesco]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

we don’t want a big crowd getting in the way, so we just have a few representatives doing it.”

Sensible thinking. 

[Chris Lawrence]

Hope it helps. Good gesture.

[Kieran00001]

1 hour ago, Muzarella said:

If those kids will have to dive...better to have an empty stomach.

 

If those kids will have to dive tomorrow, better to have a full stomach today.