Month: November 2024

Next post overdue 27/04/2020

Situated in Khun Han of Sisaket Province, Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew or the Million Bottle Temple was built to draw attention to the need to recycle and adopt a sustainable lifestyle.

Work started in 1984 after the monks invited locals to help collect empty green Chang and Heinekan beer bottles. First came the temple and one and a half million bottles later a crematorium, water towers, sleeping quarters and and ablutions. Bottle caps were also used to create mosaics and Buddhist designs inside this unique temple.

Generally speaking one shouldn’t expect to find an authentic Thai street food cafe in the UK, let alone in Portsmouth.

Personally I do not believe that one can replicate the true taste and flavours of Thai food in a commercial kitchen. What is it about Thai food that sets it apart? What makes it different,  a niche that is separate and distinctly different?

What is Thai cuisine?

The question that took me across to Arundel and Thai Time.  Following the successful opening of their first restaurant in Forest Row, owners Mark and Bam decided to set up a sister restaurant in Arundel.  What caught my eye was their uncompromising committment to promote the authentic taste and flavours of Thailand.

Food normally eaten exclusively by Thai’s.

 

It is impossible to define what is and what is not authentic Thai street food. It’s not about recipes, what is right what is wrong.

It is about  people, what they enjoy, about everything that goes into the preparation and presentation of the food we call Thai street food.

At the age of five, Tippy’s mother Niang was helping her mother cook food for sale at the market in Surin. Lifeskills and experience she bought with her when she opened her first market in Glouster. Skills passed down to Tippy and in turn to her sisters.

Preparing food they sell at the street markets throughout Bristol. ThaiFridays.co.uk