A Special Lunch

Our friend Ming's family home is in Chiang Mai, although we met her when she was a student in Goshen. She recently completed her Ph.D. from Purdue University in Food Systems. (Congratulations!!) She has been here with her family for a visit and we were able to get together for lunch on Monday. She picked us up and we drove out to the edge of the city to a northern Thai place her aunt recommended.

When we arrived, the place appeared attractive. After a bit of confusion as to which place we were meant to be, we were seated.

Dan took this photo of Ming and me.

We ordered a plate of assorted northern Thai appetizers. The bowls had sauces, the brown one being ground pork and the green one being chilis. Two kinds of sausage, a tan-colored kind of solid pork pudding (? not the right word, but I can't think of another way to describe it), pork rinds, and some slightly cooked vegetables, including purple sweet potato.

We got a Burmese style pork curry, which we've had before. It is slightly sweet and very good.

I don't know what this dish was called, but it was a kind of green cooked up with egg and something else. It was fairly mild and a nice flavor.

There was also a small salad bar and we had some cucumber, carrot, and some very unusual greens.

There is so much variety of food available here and I am a bit embarrassed at how narrowly we regularly eat. So thanks to Ming, we really tried some different things!