Buriram Expats
Buriram Province - General Category => Thai Food in Buriram. => Topic started by: Lourens on August 29, 2008, 02:24:36 PM
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It's not always possible to get all the right ingredients for a farang cocktail so I decided to make use of the local produce. I love a good bloody mary but vodka is expensive and tabasco rare. Here is my recipe for the Isaan version:
1 tot (or two) of Lao Kao
1 crushed red chillie (or two)
A splash of nam pla
Some pepper if you liike
Tomato juice (available locally)
Stir (or shake) well.
Pour over crushed ice in a plastic bag and garnish with a lemongrass stalk and corriander.
It will blow your top off steamingMad
What's yours?
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Name this drink. First prize is one on the house. Second prize is two on the house and so on...until someone falls over.
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Isaan Isotope..it'll blow your mind confused4
TBWG sawadi party5
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
You may already have won a free drink.
Pending other entries, your location in the world, the state of your liver and permissions from your wife and family biggrinbar
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Now comes in a handy can! party15
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Now comes in a handy can! party15
Hi Chris
See you are really on top of paintshop!
TBWG sawadi
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I wish... It's from a website http://www.says-it.com/ (http://www.says-it.com/). It's loads of fun.
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Cracking site! party3
TBWG sawadi
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Although not Buriram but its still not that far.........
Norbies in Surin has re-instated the DRAFT German Bitburger beer. I love that stuff jumping9 party4 party3
Dave
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[qoute]Thailand launches national cocktail to lure tourists
Ian MacKinnon in Bangkok
The Guardian, Friday 20 February 2009
When tourism has taken a self-inflicted battering, the temptation might be to have a drink to drown your sorrows.
Thailand is going a step further: it has invented a new national cocktail, which it hopes will help visitors forget the hangover from the disastrous airport shutdowns late last year.
Intended as an answer to Singapore's slings, Cuba's mojitos and the many manhattans downed in New York, the Siam sunray is intended to give tourists an instant taste of Thailand's charms.
At the very least the drink's ingredients are far from bland: a shot of vodka, coconut liqueur, a dash of chilli pepper and sugar, lime juice, a few slivers of lemongrass and ginger, with the whole mixture shaken then strained into a glass with ice and soda water.
Thailand's tourism authority formally rolled out the drink yesterday, grandly styling the concoction "Thailand in a glass: the new punch in Thai tourism."
Perhaps it is a long shot. But with the country's export-led economy taking a beating in the global slowdown and the vital tourism sector that once drew 14 million visitors to jungles and pristine beaches still suffering, anything is worth a try.
The hope is that the heady brew will ease the pain caused by 300,000 stranded foreign travellers at the start of the peak season when Bangkok's main international airport was closed by anti-government protesters for eight days. Thailand's tourist resorts and hotels - major contributors to the economy - are still feeling the effects.
But perhaps the Siam sunray - coined to evoke Thailand's ancient name - may leave a better taste and instil a collective amnesia among the travelling public.
"Thailand's new signature drink is based on very Thai ingredients," said the tourism authority. "Successful signature drinks are one way to fast-track holiday destinations on to the world tourism map."[/quote]
What about the Isaan Isotope then??
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There! And I thought the Thais already had a national drink, Samsong and soda!!
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Yes. And if the Siam Sunray is Thailand in a glass then I guess we could call the Isaan Isotope: Isaan in a Plastic Bag party12
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Yes. And if the Siam Sunray is Thailand in a glass then I guess we could call the Isaan Isotope: Isaan in a Plastic Bag party12
So true.. :D
And for the newbies I'll explain,unlike in foreign countries where you buy your drink in a plastic/paper glass,here,EVERYTHING is being poured into plastic bags; coffee,fruit-shake,rice,cakes,som-tam(papaya salad).
I think they have to register copyrights on this.
Any drink can be poured into a small plastic bag with ice and a straw if you want it to go. This looks very strange at first but actually works quite well!
Anyway,you find yourself hanging on the street with a plastic bag and rubber as a holder (see picture below).
Up and down like YoYO..
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MY favourite drink in Isan is...... CLEAN WATER ! :dry:
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TRY 85% COKE + 15% M150 = Dr. Pepper secret formular.... can any of you find another one!
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definitely BEER ! party10
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beer & lao. wildman hahaha
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Definitely BEER, every brand but Heineken ofcourse. crazydance crazydance
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Though, not my favourite by any means, I just wanted to throw a shout out for real homebrew lau khow. I believe most that are unacquainted with how locals imbibed this white lightening years ago and understand the mythology of the commercial side of the crap have been mislead. For sure, commercial {store bought} lau khow is quite near diesel fuel or paint thinner - in taste as well as potency. If you've ever had an opportunity to take the local spirit as it was once known, you'll find that some of the homebrew is quite decent and delicate. Not the chemical enriched s**t that passes for the masses - but real time honoured rice whiskey. Some home producers fuse the sweeter and milder "wine" with assorted flavours - citrus, jasmine, papaya, etc. Since the ban on home manufactured whiskey had been lifted a few years ago {not that such mandates stopped anyone before}, the local art and craft of creating such lovely lau khow has returned for local consumption. My Father-in-Law comes from the old school of spirit making......quite nice. As I've taken a number of recipes for for the brew over the years in a variety of places throughout the country. One cannot even compare the home-style for the commercial side. A caveat.....lao khow was not meant to be taken everyday - as it can be a killer.
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A very tasty coffee being made by this lovely woman.
I always like to drink Lemonade there as its from 100% natural lemon, little bit of suger. spiral
Location: Soi Hanchana, Just few meters from Buriram Expats office.
party3 Enjoy.
most tasty coffee shop soi Hanchana Buriram.mpg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eFM4LxoJC0#)
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Though, not my favourite by any means, I just wanted to throw a shout out for real homebrew lau khow. I believe most that are unacquainted with how locals imbibed this white lightening years ago and understand the mythology of the commercial side of the crap have been mislead. For sure, commercial {store bought} lau khow is quite near diesel fuel or paint thinner - in taste as well as potency. If you've ever had an opportunity to take the local spirit as it was once known, you'll find that some of the homebrew is quite decent and delicate. Not the chemical enriched s**t that passes for the masses - but real time honoured rice whiskey. Some home producers fuse the sweeter and milder "wine" with assorted flavours - citrus, jasmine, papaya, etc. Since the ban on home manufactured whiskey had been lifted a few years ago {not that such mandates stopped anyone before}, the local art and craft of creating such lovely lau khow has returned for local consumption. My Father-in-Law comes from the old school of spirit making......quite nice. As I've taken a number of recipes for for the brew over the years in a variety of places throughout the country. One cannot even compare the home-style for the commercial side. A caveat.....lao khow was not meant to be taken everyday - as it can be a killer.
'Lau Khow' is also a reason for the high number of liver cancer deaths in Thailand