Real Homemade Isaan Food Thailand

I returned home and found Noot’s mother was visiting and was outside euthanizing some frogs by whacking them on the head a few times and then skinning them and ripping their guts out. I missed these pictures sadly as I was a little slow changing.

But this is what is left after skinned and washed, delicious Isaan frogs.

I am not sure what these mushrooms are called, in Thai they are "เห็ดละโหว Het Lanaw” and are a very sweet and delicious mushroom.

This is Nong Ja’s younger uncle and these two together is more than a handful.

The frogs cooking away on the induction cooker.

These are brown eggs or known as Kai Palow, they are boiled with meat bits from memory and are in a sweet sauce with congealed blood. Absolutely mouthwatering I can tell you.

And the mushroom dish is made with fermented fish sauce and was also bloody beautiful.

And this is known as “gang som” and can be made with any meat or even seafood and is best described as a sweet and sour soup with bamboo, another favourite Isaan dish of mine.

And the frog soup was superb, I love this soup and I used to actually spit all the tiny bones out but when it was explained a long time ago that you just eat everything, it is much easier now and the bones are very soft. They must have nutritional value as well.

This was complimented with the staple Isaan sticky rice, I wish I had a cold beer in the fridge to wash it all down, but water had to do.

Real Isaan food at its best. I cannot believe that the girls are sitting outside now in the porch eating what the call Korean BBQ, Thai girls have hollow legs for sure.

Brunty