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Originally Posted by orlok
That's a breakfast to really set you up for the day! Though are you absolutely sure that's a sausage...?
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It's a variety of sausage that is only found in the north of Thailand, aptly named 'Chiang Mai Sausage.' Quite spicy but not hot at all. Oddly enough, Thais eat a wide variety of sausage, some made with glass noodles, others made with lots of rice, and still others that are fermented! I'm not a fan of the rice type, but I could eat all the others every day. There is a dish called
'Yum Moo Yaw' that is a very hot and spicy sausage salad using white pork sausage. I love it, but it's almost too hot for me to eat.
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The longan berries look like what we would call lychees. Is it the same thing?
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No, different. Longan are half the size of Lychee, and half the flavor. Probably somewhat related though as the pit inside looks almost the same.
Lychee are tied with mangosteens as my favorite fruit. In the US and in Japan (and now I guess in the UK too,) when seeing Lychee, the outer peel was
always a brown color, and often dry enough to crack. Until I started visiting Thailand 25 years ago I never knew that
freshly harvested Lychee are bright red, and the peel is soft and leathery. The are in season now, and it's all I can do not to eat a kilo of them every day... then spend half the night in the bathroom... There is such a thing as too much fruit. Howeve... talking about them has now created a void in my existance that can only be filled with fresh lychee... Time to make a lychee run to the local street vendor stand.
The glass if Iced tea that I made when I sat down at the computer will have to wait. My berry is calling me....
Stitchawl