TourBlog 10: Shining THAI Culture & Tradition

TourBlog10: Shining THAI Culture & Tradition

                                                                                     

  

Thai Traditional dress

                I would like to introduce Thai traditional dress from each parts of country.

1. North: It depends on which tribe you are from, for example Tai Lu people wear headdress, shoulder boards is not too long and do not wear belt on it, and normally they wear sinh which come from Laos.

2. North-East: Most of men wear dark blue shirt called Moohrhom with same goes for pants, and tight around their waist with fabric called Pa-kao-ma. For women, they wear Sinh for whole dress, wear Sabiy, and wear accessories.

3. Middle: Around Rattanakosin period, men love to wear Jong-kra-ben and wear white shirt called Rajapratan. For women, they wear Sabai.

4. South: It depends on which tribe you are from; mostly we see them wear long shirt, and Sinh in Southern Style.

Thai Religion

                Thailand has a lot of religion, but the main religion is Buddhism.

Thai Language

                Thai language has its own characters and the way to pronounce it, it may hard to write Thai, but  makes it beautiful.

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                Thai culture has been one of a kind that every country remembers. We teach by our parents to be polite and generous, we teach to respect people who older than us, be generous with friends, and “Wai” is the way we greeting, pay respect and thank others.

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TourBlog 9: Feel like Cooking! "Larb Muu / Minced pork Salad"

TourBlog 9: Feel like Cooking! 

"Larb Muu / Minced pork Salad"

Background

                Larb (ลาบ) is a local food of North-East and North of Thailand. We put meat into minced meat and mix it with other ingredients. You can use any kind of meat to cook Larb.

Ingredients

Minced pork                              350 g.

Mint leaves                               2 table spoon

Lime juice                                 3  table spoon

Fish sauce                                 2  table spoon

Roast ground rice                       2  table spoon

Minced spring onion                    3  table spoon

Pepper                                      1 table spoon

Sugar                                       0.5 tea spoon

Shallot                                     0.5 cup

Stock or water                           1 cup

How to cook?

1. Boiled water, then we poured pork inside the pot, and cook it. You need to separate pork, do not let them attach together. When it cooked well, move the pork into the bowl.

2. Pour shallot, fish sauce, pepper, sugar, and roast ground rice, then mix well.

3. Pour minced spring onion and mint leave the last, then mix.

4. Put Larb into the dish, and decorate it with mint leave. Eat it with fresh vegetables or sticky rice.

Please enjoy the video ... :P

 

Feel like Eating!!!

Tour.Blog 8: Fragment of Thai history “Ayutthaya”

Tour.Blog 8: Fragment of Thai history 

“Ayutthaya”

                Ayutthaya, this is one of Thailand province with the long history as an old capital city of Thailand. What we have today is the fragment of history, which remains in the land of Ayutthaya.

                The fragment of Ayutthaya history is nowadays the landmark for tourists to travel. There are a lot of old temples and castles, even they were almost damaged by wars and times, and they still the evidence of Thai livings and Thai history. I would like to present “Ayutthaya Historical Park”, a place where the central of the old capital city. There are Wat Ratchaburana, Wat Mahathat, Wat Phra Sri Sanphet, Wat Phra Ram, Wat Lokayasutha, Wat Kasatrathiraj, Wihan Phra Mongkhon Bopit, Wat  Yai Chai Mongkon, Phra Chedi Suriyothai, Wat Phanan Choeng, Wat Chaiwatthanaram, Ayutthaya historical Study Centre, Japanese Settlement, Wat Phu Khao Thong, and Elephant Camp. We are so proud to say that UNESCO gave this place as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Even in the past foreign people called Ayutthaya as Venis  of east, since Ayutthaya is around by river and klong.

                I love history, and of course Thai history is one of them. I impressed by the queen and the king in the past, Sri Suriyothai and Naresuan The Great. Sri Suriyothai was a Chief Queen of Siam (Ayuthaya Kingdom), she was wise and brave, she helped her husband (Maha Chakkraphat) to rule Ayutthaya Kingdom, but what made her famous is her bravery. She went to a war and protected her husband from killing, but she died instant. The other one of my favorite is Naresuan The Great, which is actually Sri Suriyothai’ nephew. He lived in Burma since he was a little as a hostage, then he came back to free Ayutthaya from Burma.

                For those who interest in history like me, you cannot be miss Ayutthaya of Thailand. The history which floating by the times into fragment of memories, what still remain is the thing that we should respect and learn them.