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<i>Miang kham</i> is a snack food that originated in the northern part of Thailand, originally using pickled tea leaves (called <i>miang</i> in the northern Thai language).<br/><br/> In Thailand, <i>miang kham</i> is usually eaten with family and friends. It is also popular in the Central Region of Thailand.<br/><br/> In Vientiane, the capital of Laos, <i>miang</i> is often folded in cooked cabbage leaves or lettuce.
One of the great culinary treats of Thailand comes with its abundance of seafood. From 5-star restaurants to street stalls, the varieties of dishes and styles of cooking are immense.
<i>Thod man goong</i> or Thai prawn cakes can also be made with crab meat or fish.
<i>Nem nướng</i> can be eaten alone as an appetizer or snack, and dipped in Nước chấm (dipping sauce), or with a peanut dip. Nước chấm is fish sauce diluted with water and flavored with sugar, lime juice, chopped raw garlic, chopped fresh bird's eye chili (Thai chili)/cayenne pepper, and sometimes with vinegar. The peanut sauce is made of peanut butter and hoisin sauce, flavored with fish sauce and crushed garlic, topped with crushed roasted peanut. It is served with fresh vegetables such as lettuce, julienned pickled vegetables like carrots and white radishes, and fresh herbs like mint and basil.
<i>Nem nướng</i> can be eaten alone as an appetizer or snack, and dipped in Nước chấm (dipping sauce), or with a peanut dip. Nước chấm is fish sauce diluted with water and flavored with sugar, lime juice, chopped raw garlic, chopped fresh bird's eye chili (Thai chili)/cayenne pepper, and sometimes with vinegar. The peanut sauce is made of peanut butter and hoisin sauce, flavored with fish sauce and crushed garlic, topped with crushed roasted peanut. It is served with fresh vegetables such as lettuce, julienned pickled vegetables like carrots and white radishes, and fresh herbs like mint and basil.
Bananas have been around a long time, at least in the Old World of Asia, Africa and Europe. Quite where they originated remains uncertain. Some authorities favour West Africa, since the name 'banana' is believed to have come from Guinea, via Spanish and Portuguese. In all probability, though, bananas - and their equally useful green cousins, plantains - originated in Asia, possibly in the Middle East.<br/><br/> Certainly bananas are noted with approval in early Greek, Latin and Arab literature, and the name plantain is believed to derive from the Latin planta, 'a spreading sucker or shoot'. Alexander the Great saw - and no doubt tasted - bananas on his expedition to India in the third century BCE, and they are mentioned in Chinese lists of Tang Dynasty exotica as pleasant fruits of nan-yang, or Southeast Asia, more than thirteen hundred years ago.
Like many of their neighbours, the Lao are adventurous eaters. In any village market you may find whole fried snake, barbecued field rat, grilled dog meat, fried baby frogs, frogs on skewers, fried giant water bugs and beetles – as well as more mundane offerings like marinated chicken feet, fried mole crickets and grasshoppers.
Rushan is a cow's milk cheese of Yunnan, China. It is traditionally made by the Bai people.<br/><br/> It is flat and has a leathery texture. It may be served fried or grilled and rolled up on a stick. The Mandarin name means 'milk fan' as it is said to resemble a folding fan.<br/><br/> When served grilled (often as a street food), it is usually spread with various sweet condiments and rolled around a stick, resembling a popsicle. Some of the popular toppings include sweetened condensed milk, rose petal infused honey, chocolate syrup, and fruit preserves.<br/><br/> If <i>rushan</i> cheese is served deep fried, the cheese changes its texture and becomes somewhat flaky.
Rushan is a cow's milk cheese of Yunnan, China. It is traditionally made by the Bai people.<br/><br/> It is flat and has a leathery texture. It may be served fried or grilled and rolled up on a stick. The Mandarin name means 'milk fan' as it is said to resemble a folding fan.<br/><br/> When served grilled (often as a street food), it is usually spread with various sweet condiments and rolled around a stick, resembling a popsicle. Some of the popular toppings include sweetened condensed milk, rose petal infused honey, chocolate syrup, and fruit preserves.<br/><br/> If <i>rushan</i> cheese is served deep fried, the cheese changes its texture and becomes somewhat flaky.
The Chatuchak Weekend Market is the King of Thai markets; on weekends almost 9000 stalls cater to an estimated 200,000 visitors a day.<br/><br/> Everything is sold here, from pets to opium pipes and pots to herbal remedies. You'll also find musical instruments, hill-tribe crafts, religious amulets, antiques, flowers, clothes imported from India and Nepal, camping gear and military surplus equipment. The best bargains are household goods like pots and pans, dishes, drinking glasses and second hand books.
Famous for its seafood and its spicy Si Racha sauce (<i>nam phrik si racha</i>) – Thailand’s answer to Tabasco – this sleepy seaside town is the launching point for trips to Ko Si Chang. Several piers run off busy Jermjompol Road, Sri Racha’s main waterfront street. At the end of each pier are breezy, open-air restaurants ideal for sampling the local delicacies, oysters (<i>hoi nang rom</i>) and mussels (<i>hoi thot</i>), dipped in the famous – but optional – fiery sauce.
The Naxi or Nakhi are an ethnic group inhabiting the foothills of the Himalayas in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province, as well as the southwestern part of Sichuan Province in China. The Naxi are thought to have come originally from Tibet and, until recently, maintained overland trading links with Lhasa and India.<br/><br/> The Naxi form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The Naxi are traditionally followers of the Dongba religion. Through both Han Chinese and Tibetan cultural influences, they adopted Tibetan Buddhism and, to a lesser extent, Taoism, in the 10th century.<br/><br/> The Old Town of Lijiang dates back more than 800 years and was once an important town on the old Tea Horse Road.