Chiang Mai Temple and street food tour
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| Tha Pae Gate in Chiang Mai |
Today is our day of exploring the old town of Chiang Mai in the day time followed by a food tour in the night time.
There's so many temples in Chiang Mai that we went to 4 and called it a day =)
One of the most famous temples in Chiang Mai is Chedi Leung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Chedi_Luang
This is an old ruins temple that is beautiful and house the emerald buddha before (that statue seems to move around quite a bit!)
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| Chedi Luang |
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| Dipterocarp tree that guards Chiang Mai that's >200 years |
Next is Wat Phra Singh which has some beautiful old Lanna style building
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| Wat Phra Singh |
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| Wat Phon On |
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| Pagoda in Wat Phan On |
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| Wat Umong |
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| Wat Inthakhin |
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| Wat Pan Tao (Taek wood temple) |
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| Old tree in Wat Pan Tao |
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| Colorful decoration at the yard |
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| Wat Pan Tao |
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| This Wat i have no idea what it is =) |
At about 5pm, we met Moui our food tour guide. The tour is fantastic that shows us a lot of places and way too much food. Bill managed to map out our tour on google map, showing how we move just around the outskirts of Chiang Mai old Town for this whole tour.
Cowboy hat lady pork rice
This is a famous lady who is from mainland China. She married a Thai and started selling the pork trotters rice. Moui says she sells about 300kg of pig legs every day.. that's a lot of pork!
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| Stewed pork and intestine with duck egg |
Local market
After that we went to a local market where we are shown all the local ingredients for northern Thai food, including some local sausages, local snacks, not to mention the creepies crawlies
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| I had a cricket.. but not the other stuff.. |
Moui also got some dips and some food for us to try in our next stop at the market.
The local sausage is great and i recognized the sausage from the breakfast at U Chiang Mai.
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| Award winning Chiang Mai sausage - chunks of garlic and pork |
We also had some steam glutinuous rice in bamboo that's only available seasonally and it was interesting that they had to break it by hitting it hard
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| Breaking the bamboo that contains the rice |
She also got some local sweets for us to taste
Shan restaurant
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| Pic in the restaurant depicting the life of Shan people |
Our next stop is a Shan restaurant. It's interesting as we got to try ear mushroom salad, pickled tea leave salad and a basil salad. Moui says traditional northern Thai food is mainly vegetables, with some meat for special occasion.
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| The 3 vegetarian salads that we tried |
So she also showed us how to make their snack which is bethel leave with ginger, shallots lime, peanuts, dried shrimp followed by a sweet spicy fish sauce.
We also tried 2 dips which has pork and tomato for the red one, followed by the green with chilli for the green one.
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| Typical northern Thai snack |
I also learned something new about the Shan people that makes me a little sad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shan_people
Burmese food
Next stop is a typical Burmese food place that she showed us how to eat with our hands, with pork curry and glutinous rice.
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| Burmese food |
Chinese night market
At the night market, we first stop for some deep fried potato ball, which contains sweet potato, flour and coconut. Very tasty!
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| Deep fried sweet potato ball |
At this point we are both so full that we asked to share the rest of the food for the night. So we shared a bowl of rice noodles that's typical for northern thailand with pork blood and curry sauce.
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| Local lady selling different kind of curry noodles |
Then we walked around the rest of the market where she got us more snacks like Thai pancakes, glutinous sweet rice ball and steam corn cake.
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| Local Thai pancakes |
Finally, we had some red Ruby Thai dessert that is water chestnut in a pandan syrup.
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| Red Ruby dessert |
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