Could someone tell me where I might be able to buy Ghee in Chiangmai. I could make it but the small amounts I use make this a hassle. I know it comes in tins. When I try and ask in the supermarket I always get the blank expression.

With thanks

Ghee is so easy to make for yourself, why is it a hassle? When the solids are settled out and the clarified butter skimmed off the top it keeps indefinitely. The blank expressions are because Thai people don't use ghee and have probably never heard of it, unless they are Indian; Thai food does not normally use even butter. You would have to find an India food market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

We got some in the Airport Plaza Rimping a few moths ago - not sure if they will still have it as so many items seem to come and then disappear forever.

Rimping sell (or have in the past sold) Ghee. From NZ, but ghee is ghee.

The blank expression is normal, so just walk the aisles and find it for yourself.

There is a small Indian spice shop in Warorot market (ground floor - inner area same as veggies & fried pork - closest to roadside) they have practically everything.

If they don't have it they can tell you where to find it.

Saw some tins of it the other day at Rimping MeeChok, but not idea of price. It was in the same aisle as cooking chocolate.

Rimping Nawarot have some on the shelf today "close to bakery section"

150g <100 baht & 454 g >175 baht.

Now all the work has been done get yourself on over

I saw it at Kasem Store earlier today: 150 g tin, baht 75. Larger sizes also available.

Ghee whiz

PeaceBlondie said: "Ghee whiz"

I aghee.

I nearly wrote "Cheese Whiz."

I nearly wrote "Cheese Whiz."

Oh, the shame of it...

There is a small Indian spice shop in Warorot market (ground floor - inner area same as veggies & fried pork - closest to roadside) they have practically everything.

If they don't have it they can tell you where to find it.

Can anyone give better directions to this Indian spice shop?

Is it in the same area where the sai oua Dam Rong stall is?

Looking for chickpea flour (gram flour).

cheers

Ghee is so easy to make for yourself, why is it a hassle? When the solids are settled out and the clarified butter skimmed off the top it keeps indefinitely. The blank expressions are because Thai people don't use ghee and have probably never heard of it, unless they are Indian; Thai food does not normally use even butter. You would have to find an India food market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee

I agree that it isn't that large a hassle to make ghee but the process of going out buying the butter and making making the ghee which will take about an hour whether you make a small amount or a large amount or going to a shop and buying a tin. The same goes for cottage cheese but I still prefer to to just get a container ready made. Just a victim of the times.

Thanks to the replies will be out this morning to try and get it.

You can buy Ghee also at the Yok Store on the Superhighway, Rimpng markets usually do have it too.I still prefer to do my own

Can anyone give better directions to this Indian spice shop?

If you search this (Chiang Mai) forum, you will find precise instructions. If you fail in your search, Bill97 may help you out .

If you enter from what I'd call the main entrance (past gold shop & small coffee stand) and into the ground level where veggies and various other foods are sold (a sai oua stall in the centre), turn left into the very first row of stalls. The Indian stall is about half way down that row. You will know you are close when you smell the spices.

Probably someone else can do a better job of explaining.

Otherwise, just get into that main area and ask for the Indian shop. There's only one and they all know where it is.

Thanks to all. Found a can of Ghee at Rimping airport in the aisle with the bakery stuff, near the yeast on the top shelf.

Thanks to the staff there who actually knew what I was looking for. Would have been easier to recogize if they hadn't covered the English label with the Thai sticker and the facing side wasn't Bahasa Malay/Indonesian.