I've just been pottering around a garden centre mingling with a bunch of Burmese labourers..I know how to choose my company..and needed to know the type of wood that they were using to build a certain type of sala...

One of them was mai daeng - ok easy, know that one, but the other was mai sak which I've never heard of. I asked the labourer to spell it for me and he rattled off ไม้ ส้ก. I think he's got it wrong as Google translate offers 'social and wood' when I feed it in.

Any clue?