Northeast Thai Food

Northeast Thai Food

**Like Thai food of the north, Thai food of the northeast has steamed glutinous rice as a staple base to be taken with spiced ground meat with red pork blood, papaya salad or som tom, roasted fish, roasted chicken, jim-jaem, and rotted fish or pla rah. The northeast prefer to have their meat fried and the meat could be frog, lizard, snake, rice field rat, large red ants, insects etc. Pork, beef and chicken are preferred by well to do families.


**Food is taken from the dishes is taken with steamed glutinous rice contained in a wicker basket (katib) made in the peculiar style of the northeastern people.

Thai South Food

Thai South Food

**Thai South Food tends to be exceedingly chili hot compared with Thai food from other regions of Thailand. Specially favored dishes of the south are a whole variety of gang (spiced soup or curry) for examples, gang liang, gang tai pla, and budu sauce. Boiled rice mixed in budu sauce known as khao yam is a delicatessen of the southern people. Salty is taste, khao yam is taken with an assortment of vegetable. Considered special ties of the south are sataw, med riang and look niang.

**Sataw is a green pod when stripped reveals green berries. Strawberries sometimes chopped into thin slices are cooked with meat and chili or simply added to any gang or maybe boiled with other vegetable in coconut milk, or taken raw with chili sauce. The berries can be preserved by pickling and eaten without further cooking.

Thai Central Food

Thai Central Food

**The Thai in the central region have adopted spoon and fork and a common ditching spoon as the standard cutlery set for Thai meals. Dishes, boiled rice and drinking water are laid on the dinning table and for the family which can afford the service of a maid, will be replenished by a waiting maid as the meal progresses. Less well to do families may do without shared spoons together, and family members take food from the dish by their own spoons.

**Thai meal of the central region are vegetable, namprik (chili sauce), platoo (local herring), and perhaps omelette (Thai style), fried beef of roasted pork. On the whole Thai meal should meet protein and vitamin requirements with plenty to spare

Thai Northern Food

Thai Northern Food

**The northern people are known to follow their traditions in a very strict and faithful manner, in particular the tradition of serving and partaking of the evening meal. Food is placed in small cups placed on "kantoke" .Served together with "kantoke" is steamed glutinous rice that is the staple food of the northerner packed in a wicker basket. There is also a kendi containing drinking water nearby. Water is poured from the kendi to a silver drinking cup from which water is drunk.

Kantoke

**The common meal includes steamed glutinous rice, chili sauces which come in a host of varieties, such as "namprik noom", "namprik dang", "namprik ong" and chili soups (gang) such as gang hangle, gang hoh, gang kae. In addition there are also, local sausages such as sai ua, and nham; steamed meat, roasted pork, fried pig's skin, fried pork, fried chicken and vegetable to go with them.

fired pig's skin

local sausages

Traditional eating

ition eating

Historical of namprik

**Professionals of agriculture believe that the capsicums or called Chili and Prik (Thailand) came to Thailand about 400 years ago. So,Namprik (chili sauce) should be assumed a first plant that people of Siam (In the past, Thailand called Siam) adopt the chili suitable for the cultural Thai food. Make use of namprik to relate the important resources of us those are rice, fish, and vegetable in the country. namprik can make we eat more vegetables and the taste of rice and fish are deliciously more. An interesting is the valued nutrition when we eat rice, vegetables with namprik that we will get carbohydrate from rice, protein from fish and many vitamins and element from assortment of vegetable in an area.
**The present time of new trend and the free trade policy under the policy of WTO (World Trade Organization) and the agreements of FTA and other many countries are impacted to the cultural Thai consumption.
**The new trend of consumption makes the cultural consumption of Thai change. Especially, the necessity of eating Jung food in the rush hour work, the cultural food of West nations (Fast food) through all foods ready to eat, such as canned food and quick noodle.
**The searchers discover the younger people decrease to eat namprik and the amount of people who can prick namprik is decreased. The problem remarkable increase caused consumes more meat and fat. The research result within country between 2539-2544 finds the children of age below 6 years is increased fat 40 percentages.
**At present, the amount of People who until eat namprik eat a few kinds of namprik .The favorable namprik is namprik kapi(namprik shrimp paste) 54.5 %,namprik plara(namprik fermented fish)12.6%,and orther namprik noom, ,namprink tadang namprik platoo namprik narok and namprik ong.
**In fact, Thailand has plentifully kinds of namprik. According to the recourses of food project within not much of months and research in 35 areas, can gather 191 kinds of namprik.The free trade policy ,especially in agriculture is impacted to ingredients of namprik and Thai food are differenced. For an example, China garlic and Chaina onion are imported to Thailand and to be an ingredient in namprik and somtum(a sour relish with sliced papaya) in Thai kitchen. The Thai farmers about more than thousands who used to plant garlic need to plant other plants.
**The important thing is when we are realized many usefulness of namprik,we will realize kindness of agriculturalists, farmers , fishermen and other rural people in Thailand for keep natural resources, original Thai food and Thai cultural.
**Next I will mention to many kinds of namprik.

**My happiness

**Today I just get A grade from English Oral Test. I always get C or C + from the examinations and B or B- from Oral Test. A- is very surprised me. I do not supposed I will get its. I like to study English language, although I cannot talk or write its well. I am realized English language is important language. So, I intend to learn. Today I tell news about kind of Thai Namprik, Thai herbals and variety of Thai vegetable.

**So, next times I will present you to know the culture of Thai people to eat Chile dips or called “Namprik” which are healthy food.

Chille Dips or Namprik

Sister's Birthday

On Thursday 25 August, 2007


On 23 August is my youngest sister .I surprised her with a little cake. I did not have other gifts for her . I waited her return to our bedroom, she returned to our bedroom at three o’clock (am.).She thought I forgot her birthday because I surprised her very lately. We also sang a birthday song, together. She was very happy. I was very happy, too.

Happy birthday….. To my sister.

At MaxCats Coffee-Café….