Breakfast in Mae Sai - Great Thai Food

We have been taking it easy now that we are back home in Thailand.

We had a great meal at 10:00 AM today when we went to Daeng's brother's home. Yep, breakfast in Mae Sai, Thailand

Daeng bought the food yesterday for 340 Thai Baht ($10.20 USD) and they cooked it for the family this morning.

Going clockwise around the food setting here is what I know it to be:

1:00 o'clock wrapped in cloth is a red sticky rice and chili seeds. ** By the way, you might notice that at about 7:30 o'clock, I am the only one with a glass of water. This stuff is HOT! The red rice comes out of the mountain and is know as an AKHA dish. AKHA's are a mountain people.

3:00 and 11:00 o'clock is a soup type dish with pork feet and lots of vegetables.

4:00 o'clock is roasted red chili peppers. ** Be sure and eat ice cream after you eat one of these so in the morning you can scream: "Come on ice cream!"

6:30 o'clock is fried bamboo worms, crunchy and very tasty.

9:00 o'clock is a small front half of a river fish, (small cat fish) fried. Very easy to eat as the only bone is the center skeleton and that stays together in one piece with the head.

Center is the back half of the cat fish which has been roasted in banana leaf over charcoal with spices and a vegetable that is very stringy but a little crispy after being cooked with the fish. I am told this is also a AKHA mountain dish.

You may have also noticed that only spoons are at the food setting. The meal was eaten with fingers and spoons. The newspaper used to cover the floor was folded up after the meal and no mess!

The majority of the costs for this meal were the bamboo worms $3.00 USD and the fish $5,00 USD. The other $2.20 USD went for a little pigs feet in the soup, the rice, vegetables and charcoal.

The meal feed six people and we all ate until we could not eat any more. There was soup, rice and a little fish left over.

I am still stuffed from the 10:00 AM meal. We probably will not eat again until late this evening and that will be a very small meal.

The Thai folks really like to eat. Maybe that is one of the reason I love it here.