Feed me; an excellent business!

Another flat tire on Lao gravel roads. There is always a repair/noodle shop near by. An excellent idea, Have some noodle soup or a beer and crackers while waiting. Ban Dong Daeng, Laos.

Pad kra pao...

Ingredients: shallots 2, red chili peppers 2, garlic cloves 3 to 4, fish sauce 1 tbsp, light soy sauce 1 tbsp,  a little sugar 1 tsp, minced meat (pork or beef) 250 gr., holy basil (or bai kaphrao), bird's eye chilies 10, sunflower oil 2 tbsp

  

Chop the shallots and chili peppers finely. Heat a frying pan, add the oil. Fry the shallots and chilies for 1 to 2 minutes. add the smashed garlic cloves , fry for 1 more minute. Now add the minced meat and fry while breaking it up into small parts with a fork or spoon. When almost ready add the fish sauce, sugar and soy sauce. mix well, add the chopped basil and turn off the heat. Serve with steamed rice and the sliced bird's eye chillies (if you like it hot).
Pad Kra Pao chicken; use little strips of chicken instead of minced meat.
You can make a vegetarian pad Kra Pao using soy meat.

Feed me; sugar and fish sauce.

On every table and in every soup you're bound to find sugar and fish sauce. A pungent smell at first, the fish sauce but unmistakably Asian. You get used to it fast and it is a very nice condiment. The picture is taken at a lovely restaurant where Thanon Phra Athit turns into Thanon Phra Sumen (close to Phra Sumen Fort). Careful with that sugar, probably already added.

Feed me; Chicken feet

  

Chickens at an Asian market. The feet still attached and well presented, as they are a delicacy in most Asian countries. The chicken feet make a delicious gelatinous stock and a fine soup. Not very fond of the chicken feet salad though.