Songkran 2009, Wat Pa Buddharangsee

We went to Wat Pa Buddharangsee in Lumeah for our annual Thai-Burmese-Malaysian eat fest to celebrate Thai New Year. It's become an institution and our group just keeps on growing. This year we're joined by Dan's sister, his Mum and her husband. New this year is Ivy, Daniel and Chantel's gorgeous baby.

Everyone brings as mat and sits around the temple, makes offering to the monk and basically eat all day.

My favourite is always the Som Tum woman that mixes the paw paw salad as you order and you can ask her to make it hot, medium or mild, sweet or sour, all to your taste. She uses proper paw paw and doesn't try to skimp by putting in too much carrot. This year was a killer, I asked for mild but it was still so hot.

Another favourite was roti bread, eaten as savoury first, with chicken curry, then as sweet, smothered in condensed milk and with a sprinkle of sugar on top for good measure. I think this was my favourite this year.

A new innovation we discovered this year was grilled egg. Yes, four eggs in somehow skewed and then grilled. I've got no idea how they did it. We had to try it. As you can see by the video, it's quite tasty.