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    Teak store?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Curious George
    ^ Peering through the slats, it looks like clean cooking pots and dishes, ready to be used.
    Another correct answer! The screens used on top kept the critters away. Nowadays instead of wood most of these cabinets are made out of a cheap metal and plastic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougal
    I would say that is some sort of alarm. Maybe hit the hanging bamboo with the smaller stick to call the workers home from the rice paddys...
    Exactly right! Upon hearing the gonging sound the villagers would rush to see what was going on.

    I am having one built, but instead of wood will be using bamboo. Hopefully, this will create a louder noise.

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    You gonna use to call your daugher home from the neighbors? When I was a kid my dad would whistle me home long, short, long.

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    I would guess that this is the nursery where the mother and new baby sleep. For some reason they like to sleep with a fire in the room to keep them "warm".

    My wife did the same when she had my son up in Surin - I slept in the bedroom with a fan on.

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    NickA, you are somewhat correct. The mom would use the rope in the upper left hand corner to help with delivery. Men were not allowed and the new mom would often spend about a month here.

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    Yep, I think those ropes are still used, had an Australian friend whose wife used it for his son, I think he said she just kinda pulled on it - a bit like church bell ringing - and the sprog popped out!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hillbilly
    The mom would use the rope in the upper left hand corner to help with delivery. Men were not allowed and the new mom would often spend about a month here.

    I hope she didnt wrap it around the kids head to pull him/her out. If that has continued until today it answers some questions I have as a teacher at uni here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougal


    I'm going to go with extracting coconut milk for these two.
    Is Dougal correct, or not? I thought these were for polishing rice by removing the bran and any remaining husk. That is what this lady is doing, and the implements look very similar to me. Do I win??



    For coconut milk, my Mother-in-law scrapes the coconut meat out by hand. She then puts it into a muslin type cloth, wraps the cloth around the coconut meat and squeezes the milk out by hand.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Curious George
    For coconut milk, my Mother-in-law scrapes the coconut meat out by hand. She then puts it into a muslin type cloth, wraps the cloth around the coconut meat and squeezes the milk out by hand.
    Have done the same thing myself, with that and getting the bloody things down in the first place it makes "cooking a curry" into an all day event (or at least when you're as crap as I am it does)

    Anyway here's a scraper thingy...


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    Quote Originally Posted by NickA
    Anyway here's a scraper thingy...
    Aah! Now I undertsand what something I have seen in the shops in Brick Lane is used for.

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    NickA, I see you've got one of those newfangled 'store-bought' graters on the end of the stool. I thought everyone still just nailed bottle caps on the end of the stool to do the same job.

    By the way, are those stains red paint, or have you been chewing betelnut while working?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougal


    American B29s hitting the railway yards at Bangkok 1944?
    Close but it is a gigantic fire in P-lok in 1973.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RandomChances
    Where in P-lok is it hillbilly. I might pop up there on day as I'm only an hour or so south of P-lok
    I usually have to ask about 10 Thais the directions and instead of saying 'mai lu' they point in different directions. Actually, the museum along with the Bhuddha-Casting Foundry is located on Wisut Kasat Road.

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    Washing board isn't it.

    I can;t remember their real name. I am sure Hillbilly bands use them to make music.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dougal


    I'm going to go with extracting coconut milk for these two.
    I think Curious George is probably right. These devices are used to separate the rice husks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hillbilly
    Now what was this room used for?
    I love history and want to keep this thread going. Can I give info about the birthing room of post #4, that seem to puzzle people? In hot Thailand, why does the new mother and child stay in a room with a fire? The fire does more than keep the new baby warm like inside the mother.

    I don't think any one of you really know why the women have to stay in the room with fire after having a baby. The real reason was the mother's womb and the child's umbilical cord need to be dried. The humidity of Thailand does not help, so building a fire dries this out. The fire drying the room, driving away the moisture is to help prevent infection for the first few weeks. The Thai word for this is "Yoo-Fai". My Thai-English dictionary translates this as "roasting the mother".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thai Wife
    My Thai-English dictionary translates this as "roasting the mother".
    Not a bad idea. Chuck the noisy little oik on the fire too!

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    This looks like a functional kitchen.


    These wooden boats are slowly being replaced by the plastic ones. What is hanging above the boats?

    Last edited by hillbilly; 31-05-2006 at 04:17 PM.

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    My guess the woven things above the boats are seines.

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    Fish traps ain't they

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