webfact Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Tourists and locals flock to see once a year bloom in UbonImage: ThairathUBON RATCHATHANI: - People have been flocking to a rice field in Ubon after beautiful purple flowers burst into bloom.Pictures of the "Nilabol" flower had appeared on the Facebook page of Attaphon Phaiwan and after many shares reporters and TV crews went to the field in the Ban Na Muang area of Rai Noi sub district 300 meters from the temple of Wat Ban Tam Yae, reported Thairath.Reporters at the scene found a continual stream of tourists and locals taking pictures in the three rai area of flowers that are also called "Eheen" in local dialect. They are thought to be related to the lotus.A village elder Worasit Khonsap, 55, said that the plant was a kind of vegetable that was not easy to find these days and it flowers only once a year during the July to September period. He said that locals eat it with "lap" (a spicy raw meat dish). Source: Thairath -- 2016-07-13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alive Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Endless photos of themselves that no one will really looks at later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimay1 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I remember the last time this happened. The people trampled the entire field down to the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toknarok Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I'm not surprised the locals eat it. Is there anything that moves, swims,grows or flies that the locals won't eat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) I guess the "lap" they are referring to in the op is laarb (or however you want to transliterate it), which, as all Isaanites will know, is Lao for 'salad' which can be of almost any organic edible substance - as often as not raw (but also cooked) fish as well as meat (frogs, snails, insects, god only knows what else ). Delicious with good meat/fish but best to eat laarb in its post-cooked form - served wither hot, cool or cold. Some of the uncooked stuff can give you 'opisthorchiasis viverrini' (potentially carcinogenic). I should know having been infected with that parasite* early on in my life in Isaan. Have been several threads along the years about it on ThaiV. Sorry for the digression. The field looks lovely - rather similar in impact to a woodland field of Spring-time bluebells in the UK (and no doubt elsewhere in, at least, northern Europe) *Can be caught from either uncooked laarb or uncooked palaar (rotten fish used to flavour dishes like somtam) or inadequately cleansed water-meadow salad leaves/herbs - not pleasant. Edited July 13, 2016 by SantiSuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 (edited) I'm not surprised the locals eat it. Is there anything that moves, swims,grows or flies that the locals won't eat? "...that the locals won't eat?" Spotted dick, toad in the hole, bangers & mash, Bedfordshire clanger, Cullen skink, bubble & squeak, haggis, sauerkraut, stargazy pie, Sussex pond pudding, Stilton or Limburger, black pudding, Scottish eggs, Welsh rarebit ... Edited July 13, 2016 by Suradit69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyjustice Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Back to the OP. Looks alot like the bluebonnets in Texas in the springtime. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancin Dna 11 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Thai Blue Bells. Looks lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 better the little blue flower plants, than one of those big smelly once-in-a-number-of -years monster plants that one hears about Isaan might love the smell though!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonbsails Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 My wife has planted several of these beautiful purple flowered plants in our yard and they just bloomed! woo hoo! Our entire yard is edible ----for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 I spotted several edible Thai delicacies in the photo...some may even need to be de-flowered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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