The Annual Chiang Mai Thailand Food Festival, December 2013

   

     The 26th Annual Chiang Mai Thailand Food Festival was kicked off again this week. The location was outside of the Robinson's Central Department store, in a gigantic parking lot. All types of high quality local and regional Thai food was available.

     It is one spot not to miss if you are traveling through Thailand this winter.

Here is a very tasty steamed fish in curry,
nestled in a banana leaf as a bowl.
This is also environmentally friendly!

These are fish Maw balls.
Eaten with a sweet dipping sauce.

A nice guy selling his Pad Thai.
He was proud to be at the festival. You could tell.

Some of my favorites. Beautiful Andaman Sea Crabs, delicious Thai Scallops,
fresh large mussels, and grilled squid.  I ate some of the mussels, and they were good.
Cooked in a spicy sauce, directly over the fire.

Here are the fixings for fancy Thai Som Tam Salad

Here are the rest of the ingredients to put into Som Tam.
This is one of the most well liked fresh spicy salads in Thailand.

Grilled Breaded Fish!

Street Food at the Chiang Mai Winter Orchid Festival

It is time for the Chiang Mai Thailand winter Orchid Festival once again. This is one of my very favorite events in Chiang Mai Thailand's busy year. The festival is exemplified by its parade and elaborately decorated floats.

 A portion of "the Moat is closed to traffic, where food vendors and flower merchants set up their stalls and tables. The food is delicious, and the flowers and shrubs for sale are very inexpensive.

I hope that you enjoy this post.

There were so many tamarinds for sale.

Delicious Waffles. I had one with Chocolate and banana.

Sweets, Waffles and fruits

Sunflower seeds to eat as you walked, or lager nuts to chew.

There was Pad Thai of every variety. Do you see the different types of noodles?

Loi Kratong Festival of Lanterns in Chiang Mai, Thailand 2012



Here are three different batches
 of Pad Thai. One heavily mixed with
Egg, while the others are more
noodle filled.


     This post will show you the food that was available at the 2012 Loi Kratong festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on the banks of the Ping River.

    All of the food available was street food, and all of it wasbeing sold for a very low cost, considering how amazingly tasty it all was.

Check out these pictures!

Stuffed Crab Cakes are one of my favorites.
For 50 cents each, they were fabulous!



Here are some crab claw Tofu snacks,
and some Fish Tofu



This is a special rice snack, which is mixed with sugar
 and some seasonings, and then slow cooked over the
fire inside a bamboo shaft. It is very common in the hills,
and is a popular treat of local country folk.



Here is a batch of large squid.

 

This is a piece of Sushi that I ordered.
It is a baby Octopus.
He was delicious!