What you eatThe Yunnanese table at Ban Rak Thai
อาหารยูนนานที่บ้านรักไทย
Steamed buns, braised pork, black chicken, and tea grown on the hill you can see from the table.
N509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0What it is
Chinese Yunnanese food, on a reservoir, a few kilometres from the Myanmar border, at the end of a road that goes nowhere else.
The long version
Chinese Yunnanese are one of the named population groups of Mae Hong Son province, and this village is the most concentrated expression of that on the circuit: the cooking is Yunnanese, not Thai, and so is the architecture.
Inference — for a rider the thing worth knowing is that it is a dead-end road, so this is an afternoon out of Mae Hong Son rather than a leg of the loop. Which is a large part of why Mae Hong Son is worth two nights and not one.
Tradition holds — the tea is grown on the terraces above the village and is sold and poured by the people who picked it. That is the meal, as much as the food is.
Runs with
- stopBan Rak Thai — The village itself.
- townMae Hong Son — The town the afternoon starts from.
- coffeeArabica off the ridge you just rode over — The other thing grown on these slopes.
Named here by
- coffeeMiang and mountain tea — Tea poured the Chinese way, at the border.
- coffeeArabica off the ridge you just rode over — The other thing grown on these slopes, a ridge further west.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Yunnan cuisine — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Yunnan cuisine — Wikipedia (en)
- บ้านรักไทย — Wikipedia (th)
- Mae Hong Son province — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there