"Today we put our shoes on and went searching for an unmarked yellow Song teaw in a sea of unmarked yellow Song teaws in China Town of Chiang Mai city. Somehow amidst the chaos, we found our way and began our 3 hour-drive wayyyy up into the mountains of Chiang Mai, past Samoeng to a village called Pang Term. (Pronounced Pong-term)
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| On the ride up into the mountains |
It is very rural here.
We are at a farm (organic) with lots of mudhuts! We ate an edible weed called 'Nok-sai' for dinner, among other things. Guided by the Thai farmer, we picked the entire plant with the root, and cooked the upper portion by leaving out the roots and cotyledons and soaking the rest of the plant in boiled water. Afterwards we drained it, and then stirfyed it with soy sauce, and peanuts ground in a mortar and pestle. It was pretty delicious! We also had some wild sweet potatoes freshly pulled up from the ground. They are purple on the outside and white on the inside and and incredibly sweet like candy. There is a girl here from Switzerland and she made a ginger glaze for them. O ya! Made my day after a long trip!"
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| Arriving at the farm in Pang Term |
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| Using the clay oven |
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| Nok-sai |
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