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Thailand Food Exploration: Khao Lam

Are you getting your 5-a-day of bamboo? If you answered yes, you’re either an internet-savvy panda or a patently troubled individual.

Luckily, it’s what’s inside the bamboo that we’re interested in.

Since my Thailand post indicating my suspicion of coconut milk desserts, and my subsequent retraction, I have happily been eating the odd dessert of this type here and there.

Cendol (pronounced “chendol”) is another such creation, though this time pushing me to the limit with the addition of beans.

A mere day after my recent post relating my ambivalence towards desserts comprising things floating in coconut milk, I was forced to eat my words.

One of THE dishes of Northern Thailand is khao soy.

There is a branch of Thai desserts that I’m not totally on board with.