Author: k2w20046wp

His most recommended fruit is Dorian

A section of “Thai flowers-fruit trees, vegetables and leaf petals” have been launched and posted on Facebook. Photos from Thai group members and FB friends are also posted. During my stay in Thailand, whenever I visit a temple, I take pictures when I find beautiful flowers and trees in its garden.

However, the situation that I haven’t been able to go there in the last few years due to Corona situation. I often go to tropical botanical gardens around Japan (Also introduced in this blog) to take pictures, look for books to look up names in the library, and ask people living in Thailand. Recently, I learned that it has become easier to check using special application for smartphone.

Photos are also posted in the “Thai Flower Series” page on the Wat Japan website. However, unfortunately, the name, shooting location and time for those flowers is not completely mentioned. Please visit website as below.

http://marsk.html.xdomain.jp/pics/thai_flower.htm

http://marsk.html.xdomain.jp/

Let me post a mail from Mr. Mizukoshi as below.

A few days ago, I found an evening edition featured as the situation of Thai Dorian. In Thailand, it was said that “a fruit that I want to eat even if I put my wife in the pawnbroker”, and I also ate it every year during my stay in Thailand.

Even after returning from Thailand, I was buying it that cost 7,000 to 8,000 yen at that time. Now you can buy it for 1-2 thousand yen.

It has a unique scent and is prohibited from being brought into airplanes or hotels, and children criticize it at home.

Known as the king of fruits, when the season comes, I want to eat it.

A few words from Suchitoo;

Unfortunately, delicious Thai fruits import into Japan are having some restriction. Canned food is possible, but I don’t see it at Kaldi, which sells imported foods. There are many Thai restaurants in Japan, so if you make a joint purchase, it will be cheaper … I think as a fan of Dorian. However, each fruit has a season, and the season is short, so it is the best to eat it locally. There are mango, papaya, longan (Ram Yai), banana (Year round), rambutan (Ngo), mangosteen, lynch and pineapple. Northern area of Thailand is famous for its delicious fruit regions.

＠From left Dorian at fruit shop and Papaya is taken at precincts of Wat Japan.

June 18th is “Onigiri” Day

There is a fun rice ball culture in Japan. However, there is no such country in Southeast Asia as Thailand, which has the same rice culture.

In 1994, when rice was poorly harvested in Japan, they sold Thai rice specially, but it was not popular because it was not favorite for Japanese and could not be cooked well.

However, the price was low. It was rice that helped the food crisis when it was in trouble. At that time, a Japanese Thai food researcher impressed Japanese agricultural scientists with the rice cooked by mixing Thai rice and sticky rice (Mochi rice). I had them eat it as Sushi and rice balls. This is because I didn’t know that Thai rice is different from Indica rice and Japan is different from Japonica rice, so it is not suitable for cooking.

Japanese rice is sticky and including water more than Indica, so it is easy to hold by hand. You can’t do it with Thai rice, and even if you hold it, it will be fluffy.

However, glutinous rice Thai Onigigiri “Kaoniam” is similar to how to eat Sushi because it is hardened by hand and soaked in juice or soaked in meat and vegetables and eaten together. Also, I think it is (Thai version rice ball) to eat ripe fruit mango with sticky rice. ..

I would like to introduce another (Thai version of grilled rice balls). Put glutinous rice in a bamboo tube. Then, I put it in a fire and bake it, and it is the best dish in northern Thailand that has good taste and sweetness due to its (Bamboo) aroma and steaming condition.

＠The photo shows that are Sushi, Rice, Meat dishes, Curry, Mandarin oranges, etc. I received from local people while I was out for dhutanga.

Welcome to Suchitoo’s Soliloquy (Thai)!