Our awesome Thai teacher organized a field trip to a local village where we cooked a lot of great local Thai food, and also learned a bit on weaving and fabric work. This local village in Chiang Mai province are entirely Chinese descent, they immigrated from Yunnan, China, around 700 years ago. So by now, they actually look more Thai than Chinese, and they speak just the local dialect, no Chinese as far as I know.
This trip was planned ahead of schedule to accommodate my best buddy Fahim, who will be leaving our program early to snag a PhD in Translation in New Zealand this July! Will definitely miss you bro!
The food was delicious, like all Thai food, but this local style had some strange additions --- like jack fruit that's used well before its ripe, I cut it myself, its extremely astringent and full of sap and very gross, but after a hard boil, and added to a curry, it sure is yummy!
We also learned the typical Thai way to know if a woman is ready to be a good wife, it's so simple, you just look at how she uses a mortar and pestle to make Som Tam! (spicy papaya salad) A truly Thaier than Thai woman will have a bigger bicep than the average Asian man! (I've seen this in person, you can check out "Cooking with Poo" on YouTube)
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