Thai Festival

Sep

Today we went to the annual (=once every year) Thai Festival in Sakae. It was pretty busy when we arrived at 2pm, & was still busy when we left at about 5pm. It seems very popular!

I tried a few different Thai dishes - fried thai noodles, chicken with basil & chilli, boiled chicken with rice, deep-fried marinated pork strips, spicy papaya salad, deep-fried banana, & of course some Singha beer. Mmmmmm... it was all delicious.

Maybe you`re not interested, but beer Singha beer used to be 6.0% alcohol content, but now (since 2007) it`s 5.0%. I think it tastes better. Beer Chang (`Elephant Beer`!) is 6.4%, but ONLY in Thailand - if you buy it in Japan, it`s 5.0%!

There were various performances on stage e.g. Thai dancing, J-pop, traditional Japanese instrumental, & when we were leaving, they were preparing for a kids` Muay Thai demonstration. I didn`t wait to see it though. If I want to see kids fighting, I can just tell my students I`ve hidden candy in my classroom.

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Commented by bell
Posted at 2010-09-06 01:10

Thai festival!

Fried Thai noodles with chicken&basil....sounds yummy!!

Commented by mika-chu
Posted at 2010-09-06 07:10

That sounds delicious!

I want to eat Thai food.

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That sounds delicious!
I want to eat Thai food.

Commented by Rinko
Posted at 2010-09-08 22:35

I wanna eat thai food!!


I didn't know it's high alcohol in Thailand!

Commented by Teragoya Otto
Posted at 2010-09-13 17:15

Yes - one reason I never drank Chang beer when I lived in (or visited) Thailand was because the alcohol content was so high - dangerous in such a hot country! I was surprised to learn it is made weaker for other countries.

Commented by michiko
Posted at 2010-09-09 15:02

Owen is cool in the festival!He was exciting,wasn't he?

It seems very delicious that you introduced Thai dishes.I would try to eat them some day,but I  worry about thm that are spicy.

Commented by Teragoya Otto
Posted at 2010-09-13 17:23

Thai food is famous for being very spicy, but actually, there are many delicious dishes which are not spicy e.g. boiled chicken on rice, or noodles with soup & red pork, or stewed pork on rice; even young children & New Zealanders can eat these dishes.

Commented by Amber
Posted at 2010-09-11 18:12

Sounds sooooooo yummy~!!

Commented by Dad
Posted at 2010-09-12 23:17

The Spicy papaya salad sounds interesting. We have been making paw-paw salad lately, initially from Araya's recipe. Somewhat bland, but it came good with some extras like tomato and crushed peanuts.

But hold the fish sauce!