3 Days 2 Nights Amazing Chiangmai + Pai + Mae Hong Sorn.

3 Days 2 Nights Amazing Chiangmai + Pai + Mae Hong Sorn.                 Day 1 Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden + Mork Fah waterfall + Lunch + Geysey + Pai Canyon. Pick up from the hotel in …

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Chore : The never ending work!!

Chore : The never ending work!!

Today we’ve just spent our free time on housework or “ The Chore”. Of course you might think why have to be this word!  Let’s say. If  you are not going out anywhere and you are home. 100% you might start doing something that involve with the chore.  Please!! Don’t say no. Because we won’t believe you. Haha.   The chore or housework is something hiding in every  houses.  It depends on how we see them or not. Some people might not see them or see. But ignore them and says “ I would do it later.” Then forget it.  These could be some disaster as they would be like diseases which would expand  quickly to every corners of the house if you not doing something.

However when you have started to do one of the chore…more would come and then you could continue and they would keep you busy for a whole day long. Tired?  Oh..Yes!!! But it is worth doing. Because after you clean the house and do the chore, you would feel happy and confident when there are guests visit to your house.  Also it is for your hygienic.  Other benefit you could get from doing the chore is exercising. You spend and burn your energy after eating lots of food…both good food and junk food in the same time. Find some music you like to listen to while doing the chore is not too bad. It would make you feel relax and enjoy while doing the chore, cleaning , washing or whatever.  We don’t mind dancing and singing in the same time while doing the chore, right?

Well …let’s get started. Do it bit by bit for every day. You might have to do the same things almost every days  for the  chore as we says the chore is the never ending work, but it is the better way of living. Let’s do it!

Khnom Kroak, the Thai pancake

Khnom Kroak, the Thai pancake

The most common Thai dessert foreigners know might be mango sticky rice, and that’s it. But, there are actually many others that are very tasty and easily found almost everywhere. One of the most famous street desserts is called khnom kroak or they easiest way to explain it could be ‘the Thai coconut-rice pancake. The size of this pancake usually is a lot smaller than the normal western pancake and the ingredients are also different too.

Thai pancake can be found in most local markets. Or, street vendors make this type of dessert by putting the pan and stove on their motorbikes adapting them as the mobile shops. One can notice by looking at the metal pan with small sinking parts/ little pans in one big pan, similar as the one used for making tokoyaki.

The 2 main ingredients are rice flour and coconut milk. There are 2 main flavors choose depending on the preference of the customers; sweet and salty. If it is the sweet ones, sugar will be added into the 2 main ingredients or sometimes the pancake maker add sugar later on top of the cooked pancakes before serving them to his/ her customers. For the salty ones, a bit of salt is added into the ingredients that has been making as the thick liquid by mixing with the water.

Once the pan is heated up, the seller would scoop up the ready mixed liquid using the round spoon and fill it in each small part in the big pan. It takes around 4-5 minutes to be well cooked. It will be a bit crunchy on the outside and soft custardy inside the little pancakes, with very nice smell. Usually for the salty pancakes the topping is cut green onion leaves whereas the sweet ones have different toppings such as cooked taro or corns. When taken out from the pan, 2 little pancakes will be paired up, that’s the traditional and complete way to make Thai pancake.

Usually fresh banana leaves are used as the plates to put the pancakes that are sold to people. It costs around 10-20 baht for a plate that has between 5-8 pairs of those little pancakes. Customers usually pay and then walk around and eat the dessert using the small stick to pick up the pieces and put into their mouths… hmmm so yummy.

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Chiang Mai Walking Streets

 Chiang Mai Walking Streets       There seems to be one or two weekend markets in almost every town and city in Thailand, especially the more touristy ones. Chaing Mai, as the main spot …

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