Mobile Thai Grocer

By Thai-Eyes | February 6, 2010

Especially Thai construction workers and business people don´t have time
to do their daily shopping,
so the mobile Thai grocer shops are coming to sell fresh vegetables
and other stuff from cars and modified motorcycles.
While in many western countries attendance is already a foreign word,
in Thailand service is still an important issue.

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Image: Mobile Thai Grocer
Photographer: Posantor “Chocolate” Saelie

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Kratae Luk Tung and Muay Thai Kick Boxing

By Thai-Eyes | January 30, 2010

Cute Thai girl Kratae (real name: Namwannoi Sakboonwa) from Lampang, North Thailand
had to make a decision between Muay Thai Kick Boxing and Luk Tung.
The beautiful and fragile looking Kratae challenged more than 40 Muay Thai fights
and just missed to be an international champion in 2003,
while she lost the day against Isabe Watanabe, a Japanese Kick Boxer.
In 2002 Kratae was winning the champion title in Thailand in the 45 kg class.
While she started her career as a Luk Tung singer, the risk of an injury
in a Muay Thai fight was too high, so Kratae had to give up her kick boxing carer.
Nowadays Kratae is a quite famous Luk Tung star,
many of her songs are sung in northern Thai dialect,
which made her much-loved in North Thailand.

Image: cute Thai girl Kratae (Namwannoi Sakboonwa)

Image: cute Thai girl Kratae (Namwannoi Sakboonwa) as Kick Boxer

Just a few days ago, we got her new album: Kratae & Kratai – Tee Kao Kayao Dance,
which Kratae is performing and singing together with her younger sister Kratai.
In the musicvideo, Kratae is fulling one of her dreams,
she want to fight against a man.

Musicvideo: Kratae & Kratai – Yarng nee tong tee kao (กระแต + กระต่าย – อย่างนี้ต้องตีเข่า)
Album: Kratae & Kratai – Tee Kao Kayao Dance

A Kratae Song in northern Thai dialect
Musicvideo: Kratae – Perd jai sao tae (กระแต – เปิดใจสาวแต)
Album: Rod Mun Non-Stop

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Jungle Food Jungle Eggs Ancient Cooking

By Thai-Eyes | January 30, 2010

Food, like the jungle eggs, which is prepared with an ancient cooking technique
in the wilderness, is in common parlance called jungle food.
While people are on a trek in the jungle,
there are no cooking pots, no pans, no ovens and also no tableware,
but there are still traditional, ancient cooking techniques.
banana leaves, in Thai called Bai Tong, are long-time heat- and fire-resistent
and are used like aluminium folie.
So it´s quite easy to prepare the tasty jungle eggs.
First make a form from banana leaves,
scramble the eggs and spice them with herbs
or whatever you willl have at hand
and fill them in Your banana leaf form,
then put it on live coals at a campfire.
Wait until the eggs are done and enjoy Your tasty jungle meal.
Nowadays jungle food, still prepared using ancient cooking techniques,
became quite popular in Thailand and is also sold at markets in big cities.
The jungle eggs on the left side off our picture contains Surimi,
an artificial crab meat, which is a big hit all around Asia.
While You´re along the way in the jungle,
You have to abandon delicacies like that
and eat what mother nature provides for You.

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Image: Jungle Food, Jungle Eggs
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

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