A Behind the Scenes Look at Exotic Food Photos in Thailand 180º (อาหารต่างถิ่น)
(Updated September 29, 2017)
One of my favorite things about traveling is tasting different kinds of food. I’m usually very brave, especially if I think that I might not ever have a second chance for a sample and besides, the taste of an exotic dish really helps me remember a place. Thailand still has many forests, plus jungles and tropical islands that hold many sources of protein. When you think about it, protein is protein, and that’s how food is viewed in many remote areas.
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A woman sells BBQ voles at a roadside stand in Chainat, Thailand. (Image from the 180books.org Photo Collection by George Edward Giunca)
BBQ Voles -A Must Try!
While driving through Chainat, Thailand, we passed several roadside stands selling char-broiled Voles. Voles are rat-like creatures that live in the rice paddies. They are very clean animals and vegetarians for the most part. It’s a shame I didn’t get to sample one, but we had just finished breakfast and my wife and the driver didn’t want to help me eat one. Luckily for me, this is a common food in the up-country areas and I’m sure I’ll get my chance someday. Probably tastes like chicken, anyway.
ระหว่างเดินทางไปจังหวัดชัยนาท เรานั่งรถผ่านร้านค้าข้างทางมากมายเลยจอดรถลงไปดูสักหน่อย “หนูย่าง” เป็นหนูนาย่างนั่นเอง หนูนาไม่เหมือนหนูบ้านนะ พวกหนูนาสะอาดและเป็นมังสวิรัตคือพวกมันเป็นสัตว์ไม่ทานเนื้อนั่นเอง เสียดายที่ไม่ได้ชิมเพราะเราเพิ่งทานอาหารเช้ามาแล้วก็ไม่มีใครอยากช่วยผมชิมเลย แต่ไม่เป็นไรไว้ค่อยหาโอกาสมาใหม่เพราะอยู่ไม่ไกลจากกรุงเทพเท่าไหร่ รสชาติน่าจะเหมือนไก่เนอะ
Dried Buffalo Skins in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand (Image from the 180books.org Photo Collection by George Edward Giunca)
Dried Buffalo Skins? Ah, Sure!
What do you do with your buffalo, when it’s too old to work? Eat him, of course! Above is a photo of buffalo skins that have been cured in a mixture of salt and rice bran, sliced and bundled. Before you can crunch on this with your beer or add it to your favorite curry, there is still much work to do. First, you’ll need to burn off the hair, then grill and tenderize it by pounding it with a hammer. After you’ve repeated this many times, it should be tender and ready to eat. Don’t allow it to get cold, or you’ll have to wack it with the hammer and cook it some more. Once again, I didn’t get a chance to taste it, since we’d forgotten to pack our hammer and grill.
Bamboo worms, AKA rot duan to Thais, are fried in oil for a crunchy treat. (Image from the 180books.org Photo Collection by George Edward Giunca)
Fried Bamboo Worms -Seriously, One of My Favorite Treats
Fried bamboo worms, above, have to be one of my all time favorite snack foods. I can eat handfulls of these crunchy, salty creatures. My Thai friends know that if they go to the northern provinces, I have a standing order for all they can carry. The worms spend their whole life inside a bamboo tree, until it is broken open over a wok full of hot oil. They are a good source of protein and studies have shown that farming these and other edible insects could help solve the world hunger problem. I also like the fried flying grasshoppers that have a shrimp-like taste, but I draw the line at eating mole crickets. Mole crickets have a liquid center that pops in your mouth, yielding a strange taste and sensation.
A woman sells frozen wild boar meat at a Hill Tribe Market in Tak, Thailand. (Image from the 180books.org Photo Collection by George Edward Giunca)
Wild Boar Curry
The Hill Tribe markets can be full of exotic delights, such as deer, snakes, frogs, wild boar, etc. I’m not sure what some of the meats pictured above are, but the hair on what looks like pork, means it’s a wild boar. After returning to this market at different times during our project, the vendors became very friendly, and invited us to one of their holiday feasts, but we saddly had to decline in our race to cover events in other provinces. I bet that their free-range food sources are much healthier than some of our western counterparts.
Lizard, deer, and wild boar; a tasty treat in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. (Image from the 180books.org Photo Collection by George Edward Giunca)
Hotter than Hell Jungle Food
We had been traveling through Kanchanaburi, in the west of Thailand for most of the day, without stopping to eat and I was so hungry I could eat a lizard. A deer and a wild boar, too. Our driver asked some of the locals for the best restaurant to try authentic jungle food, and we were soon to be satiated. The photo above is a picture of our table, just before our first bite. The dish on the left is wild boar, stir-fried with chili paste, Thai eggplant and herbs. The wild boar was far from boring, but instead proved to be very tender and spicy, with a gamey ham taste. The top plate contains deer cooked with a black pepper and oyster sauce, which was very tasty as well, but the bottom dish of lizard stir fried with fresh ground chili peppers and young Thai peppercorns, was the most memorable. The lizards, called Yae in Thai, are chopped up along with their bones, making this a very crunchy dish. It’s also, the hottest food I’ve ever eaten and tears ran down my face as I ate it. I won’t give too much information about the morning after, but let me just say that just because one can eat very spicy food, does’t mean it’s a good idea, and won’t cause suffering later on.
We’ve been told that the THAILAND 180º books are finished, so I expect we’ll be setting up our online store, within the next ten days. Yea!!!!!!!!!!!
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About the Authors
Photographer George Edward Giunca, and his Thai wife, Apisatha, have traveled around Thailand armed with a circular fisheye lens to create a photo essay on the rich cultural diversity, and abundant natural beauty of the Kingdom of Thailand. Fleeing from angry water buffaloes, slapping huge mosquitoes, watching exotic festivals and religious rituals, gorging on delicious spicy food, applying aloe vera cream to sunburned skin, wading through rice paddies, getting drenched to the bone by heavy monsoon rains, and gawking at breath-taking scenery; made it a journey of epic proportions! The result is the book, THAILAND 180º. Later, they traveled extensively through Myanmar, Malaysia, and India, gathering a massive collection of 180º photos. They currently live in Bangkok.
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This show details the origin of 180 Books, a series of art/travel books illustrated with a circular fisheye lens. By using infographics, pictures from our THAILAND 180º book, and never seen before images from our vault, we’ll demonstrate this unique lens and present our unique books.
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