And continuing from last week, more strange meat products… The different shades of meat on a stick Thais seem to love their unidentifiable, processed meat on a stick. Along with a number of fish balls and crab sticks, they also love to turned process fish bits into characters, like Angry Birds. ** Hot dog or […]
Archives for September 2012
Spirit Houses – Cleaning Up My San Pram Phum
Everywhere you look in Thailand, Burma, Laos and Cambodia you’ll see these decorative little houses on stands outside of homes, businesses and schools. Known as spirit houses (or in Thai ศาลพระภูมิ ‘san pram phum’) these dwellings are supposed to house spirits protecting the place and are decorated with regular offerings of flowers, food, water, insense […]
Strange Snacks – Part I
For having some of the best food in the world, Thailand has some pretty questionable snacks. Looking past all the fish- or shrimp-flavored chips, rice cakes, etc. that are found throughout Asia, there are some particularly peculiar things available here. And considering how common they are, I have to assume people are actually purchasing and […]