Salmon salad. Thai ethnic fish salad is made from many different types of fish such as salmon, herring, sardines, carp, catfish… each type of fish will have its own flavor when processed into a salad, but in general they are all the same. gives people a feeling of freshness and coolness, especially in summer weather. An important part of deciding whether a fish salad is delicious or not is seasoning, fish salad has many ways of processing, but Thai ethnic fish salad is often processed into mixed fish salad. Mixed fish salad is usually selected fresh fish in clean water from 2kg or more, then stripped of the skin, carefully filtered the bones, do not let the fish meat come into contact with cold water, use white paper to cover the meat in a bucket of rice to absorb the fishy , dry the meat, and then slice it thinly. Then prepare the spices including: thinly sliced ​​forest banana flowers, soaked in water, coriander, herbs, basil, water basil, perilla, fresh chili, garlic leaves, garlic bulbs, crushed roasted peanuts, mac Khen, pangolin seeds, lemon, especially indispensable sour bamboo shoot juice. When the ingredients are ready, the processor uses a reasonable dose to mix the thinly sliced ​​fish with the prepared spices. With this method, the pieces of fish meat are mixed with banana flowers, plus the spices that create the strange aroma of sour water, the rich aroma of peanuts, and the spicy taste of chili peppers. Note, after mixing, you should use it immediately, avoid it for a long time, it will not be crispy, it will not be full of flavor. Mixed fish salad The fish salad of the Thai ethnic people who eat once, they want to enjoy it many more times, has become a special dish with a distinct culinary culture that is indispensable on the solemn trays, enjoyed by many people. Culinary experts and tourists appreciate and prefer.

If you go to some northwest highland provinces, you will be extremely impressed by the dishes of the Thai people, including grilled fish, also known as “pa Tỉnh top”. This is a traditional, unique, delicious, nutritious dish that is very strange to diners. To process this dish, in addition to fresh fish, you must have all the typical spices such as: Mac khén (a type of seed specific to the Northwest, like pepper in the lowlands), ginger, lemongrass, fresh chili , coriander, herbs, fresh onions, basil … After cleaning, the fish leaves its viscera to remove the bile (should be operated on the back of the fish because it will fold easily, sometimes grilled and the spices will penetrate evenly around the belly), stuffing the fish’s stomach with spices and then folded in half. The way of marinating fish is also the secret of the Northwest people to make the fish taste more special. This grilled fish does not use galangal or turmeric much because those spices will drown out the freshness of the fish. After about 5-10 minutes in the seasoning, the fish is then folded horizontally, using a grilled bamboo stick or a grill and bake over charcoal. When stuffing fish in the belly of the grilled fish on charcoal, the aroma will spread evenly into the fish. The aroma of cocoons, the hot pungency of chili, the rich taste of salt, the aroma of grilled fish mixed with the aroma of wild vegetables … all create a very unique, very attractive flavor. Each strand of ivory white fish meat blends with spices to create a complex aroma, tasting a piece also feels delicious, sweet and rich. In the past, people used thick, fresh bamboo as possible, split into two or three or four to secure the fish, then grilled the fish on charcoal. The aroma of fish mingles with the aroma of aromatic spices. PaPep is used by Thai people with sticky sticky rice. In addition, from fish, the Thai also process many different dishes, typical and delicious: Fish steamed in wooden jars, Thai people call them fish. The dish “pa lecture” is smoked fish. Closely attached to forests, rivers, streams, and fields, Thai people often take advantage of available natural products to improve family meals. In addition to pa pinh top, there is also a very special moss stone dish. Usually grows in rivers, streams, clinging to rocks. The Thai go to pick the moss when the moss is still young, then wash it, dry it, break it up to save it to eat gradually. There are many dishes cooked from stone moss, but the Thai people most often eat the “spicy pho” dish. Dry ice moss will be washed off all grit, then chopped short and stored in a banana leaf. Add onions, herbs, ginger, lemongrass, chili, salt, sprinkle a little fat, mix well, then wrap and cook. If you go to the Northwest highlands, do not forget to enjoy the dishes of the Thai ethnic people, you will surely have unforgettable aftertaste.

The Muong’s tray The weather in Nghia Lo is very strange this season, a day consists of all 4 seasons. Spring weather in mountainous regions was cold, making that morning field steps even more eager. Around through the cool green rice mat, a complex of 2 long stilt houses appeared. It is the house of Ms. Ha Thi Chinh’s family in the village of Diem 2, Nghia An commune. Ms. Chinh is also the chef of a culinary restaurant, holding in hand the secrets of creating unique dishes, bringing the breath of the land and people of the Northwest. We gathered to watch her processing the moss. After being cleaned, the moss is cut into pieces and mixed together with spices such as pasta, soup powder, herbs such as cumin, onions, dog basil, lemongrass, ginger, and sprouts … Next she packs the moss into leaves. bananas then put on the stove to grill embers slowly. About 1 hour, the moss ripe, bring up a hot plate. The grilled moss that day had a natural sweet taste, was very strange and cool. No wonder it is something that cannot be ignored when tourists go to the Northwest. Besides grilled, steamed moss is also very delicious. Ms. Chinh said that the moss is steamed in a pot but does not add water, simmer it to allow the moss to drain and ripen. While making moss, Ms. Chinh looks after a large rice bowl cooking in the middle of the yard. It was strange that when I opened the pot, under the smoky smoke I saw the sticky “cutting boards” of green, red, purple, yellow … separated by layers of banana leaves. All colors of sticky rice are derived from plants, taken from flowers and plants. The finished sticky rice dish has 5 different colors, so it is called “five colors” sticky rice. Red color is taken from the leaves of the red rice plant (Khau Lanh tree); yellow color from crushed turmeric, or from Bop Phon flower (yellow sticky flower); Purple and Black palate leaves are processed. Green color is taken from the leaves of star fruit tree, wild pineapple, sugarcane, gerbera leaves, ginger leaves … but must be mixed together. The leaves are crushed in a stone mortar, then boil the residue, filtered to get water into 4 different pots. Paddy rice has long and flexible seeds, taken from Lao sticky rice, grown by the Mong people in Tram Tau and Mu Cang Chai districts. The rice is soaked for at least 3 hours in 4 pots of colored water above, the longer it is soaked, the more flexible the sticky rice is, then poured each type of rice that has caught the color on the wooden wooden board, separated from each other by layers of banana leaves. Boil sticky rice just over fire, about 40 minutes is fine. Lunch tray of Thai Nghia Lo people Xoi served with “Pa Pinh Tat” – (that is, grilled fish is twice as much as the tail). The fish are brought back, cleaned, pecked from the back, discarded the intestines, prepared to reduce the pieces and then chopped, mixed well, stuffed into the fish’s body, grilled with a grill, or a bamboo clip on the charcoal stove for about 1 hour. to ripen to be delicious. The rice tray for Thai guests on average has from 5 to 6 dishes, containing the philosophies according to the human life of the people here, as well as the tonic for the body in addition to nutritional value. For example, if there is a Korean dish, there must be a heat dish to balance yin and yang. In particular, in Thai food, spice seeds are indispensable – a kind of forest seed only available in the Northwest with a fragrant aroma after grilling and pounding. This nut has the function of “odor indicator”, which is the number 1 important reduction in many dishes, dipping foods. That lunch in addition to “Pa PinhTop”, bamboo-shaped blue-fish, grilled insect plate, including rake, stink bugs, bee pupae …, also a bowl of bonito soup, was introduced as a “traditional trick” . The Thai Nghia Lo people have a saying: “Nao kin bon, thun kin pi” (that means, eat bon soup in cold, eat banana flowers in the heat – PV). Ms. Chinh said that the sweet potato plant grows wild, when picking leaves, one must read a “spell” to “turn into soup”, otherwise it will itchy when eating. The way of processing carbon soup is also quite sophisticated. Take home, wash, cut into pieces and mix with other types of discount such as Chinese coriander, cumin, cumin, ginger, lemongrass, squash, amaranth, eggplant, eggplant, shrimp paste, or soy sauce. Do not stir the bon broth when cooking, or only one side of the pot should be stirred and it must be simmered until the bon is over. A very special kind of food dish of Thai people, it is a sour, sweet “clumping” soup that helps to relieve alcohol. The way to make this kind of soup is also quite sophisticated. First to filter the beef feet, buffalo feet to get skin and tendons, remove the bones, then chopped, simmered and seasoned, sprinkle rice flour on the soup, stir well, chopped the leaves and then put them in the pot for about 5 minutes to Next nine, about to eat new. Carefully nibbling a lumpy tendon in his mouth. Ms. Ha Thi Chinh discussed with reporters During the meal, the landlord advised us to dab the sticky rice with a very strange dipping recipe, called “simmering”. Materials made from soybean seeds, boiled seeds, picked out leaves and wrapped, put upstairs in the kitchen for 5-6 days to ferment. When hanging up the kitchen, it is absolutely forbidden to cook all kinds of firewood with smell, especially burning and baking the buffalo skin underneath because it will damage the soy sauce. Next, bring the soy sauce down the mortar, crush it, make it into small pieces, wrap it in hairy leaves (like eggplant, white eggplant) so as not to rot, then put the kitchen guard to dry naturally. When eating, bring the soy sauce to grill and mix with the seeds, garlic, coriander leaves, grilled chili … into the perfect food for sticky rice, boiled meat, vegetables and fruits. This is the best dish of Thai people. In Nghia An commune, there are 2 old people who make this dish very delicious. The Thai people in the Northwest have quite a high alcohol intake. Having partyed, or met or met, there is indispensable cup of wine. The Thai girls are healthy and youthful with silver buttons, leggings, black skirts, wine cans and cups in hand. They both offered wine and sang: “This wine, I invite you, drinking from the beginning of the village at the end of the village is still fragrant. One cup of fragrant wine is like a thousand cups, for years, the wine is still fragrant, fragrant with your love”. There have been cases where guests panic because of the welcome cup, off the cup, they jumped from the window to the yard to “hide” the wine. Near the end is when the show begins. The girls who blocked us on the stairs of the stilt house to offer wine before, turned into dancers, performed ancient Thai dance such as “Khâm praise” (hand spread round); “Khap towels to open hot pot” (lift towels to invite wine); “Ripper” (circle of applause); “Destroying” (dancing for 4 people); “Falling kisses” (spread forward and backward); “Aluminum khan” (tossed scarf) … After the broadcast, the girls switched to perform the songs “Xin Le” and “Ha Oh” … Turn national customs and cuisine into tourism products Explaining the position of Thai cuisine in the local tourism economy, the director of Nghia Lo Town Culture and Communication Center Nguyen Viet Chung said that, according to the epic Quam To Muong, Muong Lo is the ancestral land of the people. Thai in Vietnam and neighboring countries. The mainstream folk culture in this land is the customs and habits of living with folk songs, folk music, folk dance … of the Thai people. Processing moss In which, traditional cuisine is a very unique culture that has been “packaged” into a typical tourism product with high economic value. Currently, there are about 20 homestay businesses owned by Thai people, providing services from eating, staying, taking tourists to visit the sights in the Muong Lo basin area, to experience making dishes, transplanting rice, harvesting agricultural products. Guests are immersed in the lives of people, cultural and cultural exchanges, so they are very interested. Many people have therefore returned to Nghia Lo during the tourist seasons and local festivals.

“People will carefully celebrate Songkran at home,” Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha announced on April 6. He asserted that the regulations of a state of emergency still apply in response to the Covid-19 epidemic. All provincial governors are allowed to enact more stringent anti-epidemic measures if necessary. So, one year from now, the streets of Thailand will be free from laughing crowds, water gun fights from locals and tourists. Thailand attracts thousands of foreign visitors each year thanks to the Songkran water festival. Photo: Reuters. Songkran Festival usually starts on April 13 every year and takes place for 2 days. This year, the Thai government approved an additional day off on April 12 to give Thais a week-long vacation, to encourage people to travel, boosting the economy. However, the back outbreak of the epidemic destroyed the opportunity to revive the economy of the Golden Temple during the festival. Economic impact The Tourism Authority of Thailand predicts a rebound of the disease could cause tourists to reduce spending during the Songkran festival by 2.4 billion baht ($ 75 million). Many tourists have canceled their schedule to Thailand and checked out the hotel. “About 20% of the number of pre-booked rooms in major cities like Phuket, Pattaya and Hua Hin has been canceled,” said Pisoot Saekool, president of the Thai Hotel Association. The Thai Hotel Association and the Tourism Authority expect tourist spending on Songkran to drop to 9.6 billion baht, down from an earlier prediction of around 12 billion baht. Although more than 300,000 Thai people have been vaccinated with Covid-19, outbreaks are still popping up in Bangkok and can spread across the country during the Songkran holiday as many return home. As of April 7, Thailand had a total of 29,905 Covid-19 cases. Of which, 28,069 people recovered, 95 died. Many pubs and restaurants in big cities have to close temporarily to maintain social distance. This year, Khao San Road, a famous place to attract foreign visitors during the water splash festival, will no longer have crowds playing around, splashing water on each other. Photo: Akira Kodaka. At the upcoming festival, the Thai Covid-19 Situation Management Center (CCSA) only allows traditional activities such as pouring perfume on a Buddha statue. However, this operation should also be carried out at a distance of at least 1.5 m. With no public events and celebrations left, spending by locals on Songkran is also expected to drop significantly. A poll conducted by the Thai Chamber of Commerce University shows that this year’s Songkran will be less noisy as more Thais plan to stay at home. Holiday spending is expected to fall below 100 billion baht ($ 3.1 billion). This figure is still better than the Songkran festival in 2020, but much lower than the annual average of more than 135 billion baht. Khao San Road, a popular place to attract foreign visitors during the water festival, is also said to be very quiet as no public events are allowed, meaning the sales are bleak. business in this area. Sa-nga Ruangwattanakul, president of the Khao San Road Business Association, said the number of tourists is expected to plummet this year as fun activities such as splashing water and powder on each other are prohibited. “Before the Covid-19 pandemic, our revenue during the Songkran season was about 100 million baht per day. This year, however, I think it was only about 10 million baht,” Ruangwattanakul said.