Food - Pt.1

One of the things here I was really looking for on this trip is all the food to try out. Not that I haven't eaten Thai food yet, but the "real thing" is probably different.

The first opportunity is just in front of you, more or less on every step you take. Small street kitchens producing stronger smells than flowers. Sometimes even Bangkok's or Chiang Mai's traffic is outsmelled by stir-fry, deep-fry, normal grill or charcoal grill. Pork, chicken and beef is by far dominating and some vegetarian friends have had quite a hard time finding their food.


Well, dominating is actually something else: fish sauce. Instead of salt it is used everywhere and in everything, only the explicit vegetarian stuff comes without. If it is just veggies, that doesn't mean that there is no fish sauce. This example here is called morning glory, although it was for lunch, with fish sauce.
Pete even blamed it on the bad quality of the street kitchens, since our only restaurant until yesterday was completly vegetarian. However, The Good View proofed is theory wrong. Red Curry Prawns and Prawns with lime and chili. All with the market taste, all with fish sauce.
Mine was veal sausage and cashew salad with chili and lime, no fish sauce.
It's weired to have a salad with just nuts, but suprisingly the spice / lime works out fine. We ate Thai style anyway, all in the middle, it was just a small rearangement on the table to comfort his taste buds.

A real new thing here in Chiang Mai are the sausages. In Thai-English this would be same-same, but different. From the outside, they look like a Austrian bratwurst.

However, they are a little bit more complex in taste, since you find spicy chilli, lemon gras, koriander and other tastes within the wurst. Even the aforementioned veal sausage, as homogenic it looked, had more spices that its similar looking friend Knackwurst.