Chiness community

Nowadays, Chaina influence in many area. If you go aboard you will notice that there are some ares of Chiness people or Chiness community. We called "Chaina Town". In Thailand we know as "Yaowarat". Yaowarat is the area of Chiness community and also there are a lot of Chainess culture happen there.

Chinatown is a colourful, exotic and busy area, packed with market stalls and probably the greatest concentration of gold shops in the city. The Chinese community still continue their own traditions and religious practices, and the area is quite unlike the rest of Bangkok.

However, the Chinese community in Bangkok, descendants of early traders, have been living in Thailand for generations, and generally consider themselves very much as Thais; most can no longer speak any Chinese. The area has a somewhat seedy historical reputation for large numbers of opium dens, brothels, pawnshops and a fondness for gambling that used to prevail.

Today, gold shops and pawnshops are still very popular in Chinatown, and can be found almost anywhere and everywhere. Drug dealing, prostitution and gambling (all now illegal in Thailand) are also still thought to be widespread in this area - although they are not likely to be very noticeable to the average visitor. So don't expect to see any go-go bars in Chinatown!

Kimchi as a side dish.

During meat what kind of side dishes do you love? Chili, ginger, cucumber or fish sauce? In general most of Thai food also have side dishes for tasty of meat.

Korea also has one favorite side dishes as well. That is "Kimchi". Most peculiar about Korean cuisine is the way of pickling instead of cooking vegetables. Kimchi also means pickled vegetables and they only specify the preparation if it is other than pickled.

Koreans are likely to eat pickled vegetables every day, commonly for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In the cold Korean winter kimchi can last for many months. However, in the tropical Thai climate kimchi should be and is prepared only several days before consumption. The pickling process takes about 12 to 14 hours. Almost all available vegetables can be pickled but the most common in Korea are cabbage, turnip, and cucumber. The seasoning is chili, garlic, onion, ginger, oyster sauce, fish sauce, and salt.

Kimchi is most peculiar to Korean cuisine, it's rather the Korean habit of preparing meat as barbecue (in Korean: bulgogi) that has appealed to a large number of gourmets around the world.

Spaghetti for Thai people

Do you love spaghetti?

On last Saturday, I read a newspaper and saw one scoop about restaurant. That is Spaghetti House at Thonglor. As everyone knows spaghetti is the famous menu of Italian. If you don’t like to eat international menu, you may don’t like spaghetti menu.

Spaghetti House makes me wonders about its menu because each of menus was adjusted especially for Thai people who love to eat spicy dish. Moreover, Spaghetti House creates many fusion food menu and also mix with Thai ingredient such as Spaghetti with Crispy Fish, Spaghetti with Spicy Seafood, Spaghetti with Salted Fish, or Spaghetti Chili Sauce with Fried Baby Clams.

After I read this column I can notice that not only people who have to adapt themselves with culture but also impact on food as well. From this case, it shows that even Spaghetti House has Italian menu as a main dish like Spaghetti but they can apply their famous menu with Thai culture as well.

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