Pictures from Isaan

**Fabian** · 02-06-2008, 02:58 AM

I thought I will look into my old pictures and show you some of the isaan countryside. There are a few problems. First, they all are on paper and have to be scanned. Second, which has a bit to do with first, I did not take so many pictures back then. And third, many of them had my ex on them so they already have been destroyed. So you will have to do with what I've found.

View form my ex's house to the village temple:

The temple in full:

I am sure I donated some money so this building could be build.

**big_cloud** · 02-06-2008, 05:21 AM

Hi, Fabian
I hope you got a receipt about your donations

thx for the nice pics

Lothar

**Fabian** · 02-06-2008, 02:45 PM

Donations abroad cannot be deducted from the german income tax.

We could form a non--profit organization in Germany though to support thai temples, then we could deduct the donations from our taxes.

**dirtydog** · 02-06-2008, 05:39 PM

That would be a good idea, just send the money over to your thai bank account, a fake reciept and you got some tax free money, ahhh, I forgot, aint you a tax advisor or some such beast

**Fabian** · 02-06-2008, 07:23 PM

But that would be tax evasion and of course I wouldn't anything like that.

**Fabian** · 07-06-2008, 04:06 AM

I did not find many pictures so this trhead won't go on for much longer.

I realized I could do a house building thread instead.

But first the few pictures I have.

A typical Isaan backyard:

Me back in the days when I still had a lot of hair, killing some chicken:

**Fabian** · 07-06-2008, 04:16 AM

There was a temple nearby. Problem was it was on top of some hill and only later I found out there is a road up instead of taking the steps. Anyway, I was a lot faster than all the thais of course.

That temple with a huge buddha statue is near the Ubol Rat dam lake. They got an area called Bang Saen 2 without a beach but some activties thais seem to like as banana boat.

**Mathos** · 07-06-2008, 04:38 AM

I like the photographs Fabian, tell me though, what on earth did you do with the chicken blood you were so carefully draining into the soup bowl?

**Happyman** · 07-06-2008, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Mathos

I like the photographs Fabian, tell me though, what on earth did you do with the chicken blood you were so carefully draining into the soup bowl?

Don't know what he is doing but in Taiwan the blood is put in a shallow tray with some cooked rice and herbs.
It is steamed and then cooled - it is solid by then- cut into small pieces and added to conge ( rice soup) lovely !!

**Fabian** · 07-06-2008, 05:10 AM

I did nothing with the blood of course.
What scared me a little bit though was that my wife, who killed the other chicken, stopped the chicken from moving by banging its head on the pole you see in my back. That should have been an early warning but I have not seen it.

**Mathos** · 07-06-2008, 05:24 AM

Originally Posted by Happyman

Originally Posted by Mathos

I like the photographs Fabian, tell me though, what on earth did you do with the chicken blood you were so carefully draining into the soup bowl?

Don't know what he is doing but in Taiwan the blood is put in a shallow tray with some cooked rice and herbs.
It is steamed and then cooled - it is solid by then- cut into small pieces and added to conge ( rice soup) lovely !!

I've seen them filling big stainless steel bowls with pig blood in Burma and Cambodia. Then it is set in big blocks of a jelly looking substance.

I asked them what they did with it, and they simply said "Eat it"

Maybe they add the pig blood to conge as well?

Yes Fabian. we used to neck, pluck and clean our own chickens, once upon a time. My daughters and grandsons think I'm 'barmy' when I tell them about it.

Catch the chicken and turn him over, hold him by his legs and wings back down. Hit his head hard on a table top or block of wood as shown behind you, then wring his neck, pull until it cracked but not too hard or it would come off in your hand and blood would shoot all over. If you let him go, he would run around with blood shooting about like crazy for a little while. Hence the expression 'Like a headless chicken'

Pluck him quickly (It's easier whilst the body is warm} and pull his guts out via the back end. Cut head and feet off, wash him out and fasten him up neat and tidy for the oven. Sometimes you would come across an egg when you cleaned them out. We never drained the blood though.

**extras** · 19-06-2008, 11:40 PM

May I share a few pics from Mukdahan.

My mate took me to a temple, and this's one of the places where the monks keep their drinking water.

The next day, we all went to a village outside of Mukdahan. It was near the border, obviously, as some of the texts I sent whilst there were charged on International Roaming service.

Walking through the village to the Mekong river...

.. through another temple. I suppose the water here was cleaner than the first one..

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