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Thai Festival
The weather was wintry today (45 degrees F), so we went to an outdoor festival, of course!
The festival mostly involved trying out a bunch of Thai street food. I do not like the food I have tried at any of the Thai restaurants I have been to. But today I learned that I like savory pancake/scrambled egg things cooked in lots of oil in a wok with garlic and bean sprouts. (There were also mussels in there, but I didn't eat those.)
Smoked pork, covered with spicy hot oil? Delicious.
Deep-fried battered plantain? Of course I liked that.
Sesame balls that look like sesame-seed-covered donut holes? Crispy and hard to bite. Very chewy. Mildly sweet. So delicious! My favorite thing!
Friends were most excited about a mango rice dish. It was sliced mango served on sticky rice with a cup of coconut milk dipping sauce (coconut milk heated until slightly thickened). It was all cold, but we were told it is often served with the rice still steaming hot. Pretty good. I brought most of it home, heated the rice, poured the sauce over everything, added sesame seeds (because why not?), and that was pretty good. And to ruin the authenticity even more, I bet I'd really like rice pudding made partly with coconut milk and with a lot of mango mixed in. And then I could use brown rice! (I think--I still haven't tried making rice pudding with brown rice. But surely that works, eh?)
The festival also involved very loud dance music. Mostly American music!
The festival mostly involved trying out a bunch of Thai street food. I do not like the food I have tried at any of the Thai restaurants I have been to. But today I learned that I like savory pancake/scrambled egg things cooked in lots of oil in a wok with garlic and bean sprouts. (There were also mussels in there, but I didn't eat those.)
Smoked pork, covered with spicy hot oil? Delicious.
Deep-fried battered plantain? Of course I liked that.
Sesame balls that look like sesame-seed-covered donut holes? Crispy and hard to bite. Very chewy. Mildly sweet. So delicious! My favorite thing!
Friends were most excited about a mango rice dish. It was sliced mango served on sticky rice with a cup of coconut milk dipping sauce (coconut milk heated until slightly thickened). It was all cold, but we were told it is often served with the rice still steaming hot. Pretty good. I brought most of it home, heated the rice, poured the sauce over everything, added sesame seeds (because why not?), and that was pretty good. And to ruin the authenticity even more, I bet I'd really like rice pudding made partly with coconut milk and with a lot of mango mixed in. And then I could use brown rice! (I think--I still haven't tried making rice pudding with brown rice. But surely that works, eh?)
The festival also involved very loud dance music. Mostly American music!