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Today I’m is proud to present one of my favourite recipes. This is something that I often make it by myself, don’t worry it though, it’s very easy to do.

This dessert is very popular in Thailand as it is easy to make, and everyone, from children to adults, enjoy it. Of course this being Thailand, there are plenty of Coconut trees around, there is even one outside of my house! Which gives us a good excuse to make this particular dessert ourselves whenever we feel like it. Today, I’m going to show you my method for making this particular Thai speciality.

Aromatic Coconut Jelly

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Thai desserts are well known for not only being sweet, they look beautifully colourful, and taste delicious too. They are used in Buddhist rituals and auspicious ceremonies, and are also given as gifts for special occasions.

When we talk about the look of the desserts, and in particular the colours, we always use ingredients from nature and try to avoid using any chemical based colourings. For example; the red colour is from Roselle, yellow is from Pumpkins, green is from pandanus leaf and purple is from the Butterfly Pea.

natural-colour

Some Thai desserts are very rare, and in my opinion this has a lot to do with the newer generation of Thais being more interested in modern convenience foods and in particular western style bakery, most of them probably don’t know what a traditional Thai dessert looks like. I don’t blame them, I like western style bakery food as well, but I won’t forget my traditional Thai desserts. When I ask my foreign friends about Thai desserts, most of the answer with this one; Kao Niaw Ma-Muang (Sweet Sticky Rice with Ripe Mango and Coconut Cream). So, for you guys I’d like to recommend some Thai desserts to try when you visit Thailand, here are my top ten:

1) Red Rubies Tub Tim Grob (Crunchy Mock Pomegranate in Iced Coconut) ทับทิมกรอบ

Red Rubies

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Hello again everyone. I actually mentioned briefly about Tung Sri Muang festival, Udon Thani in a previous blog called “Travel in Udon Thani, Tung Sri Muang festival”, and it seemed to capture the imagination of many people and got many views, so I’d like to say “Khop khun ka” to all of you for that. I thought that this time I’d write about it properly since this years festival started here two days ago (Dec 1st-15^th).

The Monument of Krommaluang Prachaksilapakhom

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As you’re probably aware if you’ve read some of my previous blogs, I’m keen on checking my site’s Google Analytics quite often, especially the “keywords” section. This week I was looking specifically for keywords about Thai food, as I was interested to see what many people have been searching for from the major search engines. Amazingly, I’ve found some famous Thai dishes in that list that I’d never thought that foreigners would pay attention to, because most of the time when I’ve been in conversation with my foreign friends about Thai food the dishes that were mentioned most often were; Pad Tai (Fried Noodle), Green/Red Curry, Massaman Curry, Tom Yum Kung and Fried Rice.

If I look for what types of Thai food people are searching for in the “keywords” section from my Google Analytics, the following come out as the top ten most popular:

1) Massaman curry มัสมั่น

Massaman curry

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When I was in university over ten years ago, a friend introduced me to a chat program called mIRC. Whenever we had free time at the university we would go to the top floor of the Library building, where they would let students use internet for free for research and assignment purposes, but funnily enough most students didn’t use for that, instead they used it for online chatting.

mIRC – remembering the old days.

Back then IRC (or Internet Relay Chat) was very popular, and so the area around then university had a lot of internet cafés. At night these would be very crowded, and I was one of those who was IRC addicted. Luckily I had a friend who owned an internet café near the university, and I was regular customer so got discounts. As I was new to the whole thing initially, the first greeting confused me, which was “ASL”… what the hell is ASL?!? I later found out this meant “Age, Sex, Location”. Some of my friends met with foreign guys via IRC although I never did met a guy via IRC myself, even though I spent a lot of time on there as it was free at that time.

Kit at twenty

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