isaan Tag Posts Index

🐍 Yummy Snake Dinners: Deep Isaan Hunting

Do you guys like eating snakes? Because I absolutely love it! Snakes have a very distinct, unique aroma. While it’s structurally close to frog or crocodile meat,

🐸Protein from frogs!

Hi there! Frogs, just like crabs and other small creatures and insects, are an essential source of protein here in Isaa`1n. They classify them into different types:

🤫🦀The Secret Ingredient: Hunting for Field Crabs [The Isaan Chronicles]

Hello again, Hive community!In my previous post, we dived into the pungent and spicy world of SomTumLao—the traditional papaya salad that journeyed from Laos into

Let's focus on "larb". Another one of my favorite Thai foods

When people travel to Thailand as a tourist they will probably be ushered to the usual Thai foods that are likely served all around the world anyway such as green

Som Tum: One of the most glorious food items of Thailand

When people who have never been to Thailand think about Thai food they probably think about things that would be featured on Thai menus abroad like Tom Yum, red

Ban Somtum, Green Papaya salad in a unique way!

Here come another som tum meal. I love Som Tum, this Thai style green papaya salad with all the flavors you can imagine, salty, sweet, sour, spicy and umami! This

One cool way of drinking alcoholic drinks!

Ok, tell me if this is not one hella super duper cool way of drinking any kind of drinks or in this case, alcoholic drinks. I just found out about this drink not

Rotisserie Chicken! + Papaya salad

Whaaa here come another papaya salad post. I just can't stop eating them! (and the reason why I can't stop sharing..) It's that good that I wanna insist enough so

Lady boy ISAAN FOOD!

What attracted us to this restaurant in the first place is the name! Sounds like a fun place to eat! Then we started reading the reviews and found out that it's

WHY I love Amanta Hotel!

You know I'm a foodie if you have been following my blog for a while. There's not so many reasons that would make me feel in love with any hotel. A soft bed, good

Colorful Isaan food - DONG DANG SALAD!

Steamed veggies with spicy dipping sauce Tum Dong Dang! or Dong Dang Salad Dong Dang a little closer Khao Poon Hon Just fried chicken wings but dang! aren't they

It's always ISAAN FOOD!

You gotta! People (foreigners especially) always ask me what's my most favorite Thai food. Noodle soup is one of them for sure (Joy, @joythewanderer knows it!) but

Purple Swamphen in my backyard.

Traditional Thai Wedding in Isan

When my cousin got married to his thai wife...we were invited and it was the most amazing wedding we have ever been to. With all the traditional rituals and the

Mor Hin Khao, Isaan, Thailand

Mor Hin Khao is a white hill located in a broad field at Phu Lanka National Park in Chaiyaphum province, not far from where I live... It's also known as Thailand's

Thank you all, One hundred followers...

Thank you all, just a random pic or two to say thanks.....

Sala kaew ku, Nong Khai, Thailand

This is an interesting place on the Thai/Laos border at Nong Khai, It's a large Buddhist/Hindu themed statue park and Temple created by a Laotian Buddhist monk in

Mushrooming in the jungles of home...

! After a month of the rainy season the mushrooms start to come out... DSCF8860.JPG! here in the mountains and jungles of Isaan NE Thailand... DSCF8864.JPG! and

Age old Animist rituals in Thai villages

I live with my Thai family in a small village in the north east of Thailand, every year that the rainy season seems a bit late in starting, May/June we have a

Some more Thailand pics

Some sunsets from my home village, and some from Koh Mak....