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Rolling Motorcycle Kitchen Prepares Larb and Somtum


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Recipe for Larb

Recipe for Som Tum

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Stainless steel large spoon/rice ladle

Kiwi brand knife

Fresh shallots

Ground Thai chile

Fresh lime

Clay mortar and pestle for somtum

Fresh green papaya

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Thanks to the creativity and resourcefulness of street vendors, they're able to prepare an incredible assortment of freshly-cooked meals right in front of your home. The lady in this video is a very good example of this, as she has an entire cooking cart connected to a motorcycle which buzzes around a local housing community. She even has a charcoal barbeque on the tail end, as you can see, and her cart is just packed with good things to eat. We have featured similar motorcycle vendors previously, see here for soup and here for noodles. She moved quick in the preparation of the larb and somtum, so see our recipes (linked above) for step-by-step directions.
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September 10th, 2008 3:22 PM

Shaun said:

I find a look at Thai life and culture through food fascinating and interesting. Those bananas in sticky rice look delicious, and I might try that down the road... (I unfortunately don't have the cookware to do sticky rice yet [may purcase in the future] and always use jasmine and my rice cooker at the moment, and I'm assuming that might not work well for this recipe.) I definitely am interested in trying the larb at some point also as it looks very tasty. Just having the recipes is great, but being able to see how the wonderful Thai people live and cook and add their unique flair is even better, and there's a lot of great content in these videos where you can learn quite a bit (I just wish I was half as adpet at chopping and preparing the ingredients). I enjoyed the motorcycle kitchen - mobility plus food seems to be a pretty common theme in Thailand.



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