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ALTHOUGH Thailand are volatile, but if one day you’re on holiday here do not miss a visit to Wat Rong Khun, a Buddhist and Hindu temples that are different from other temples in the country this white elephant. Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, the temple is not conventional, but has a contemporary touch. The temple was designed by Chalermchai Kositpipat whose construction began in 1997.
The first time you see, you must be thinking if Wat Rong Khun temple is extraordinary. The temple is also different from other temples in Thailand, because all-white design that surrounds the entire building with some use of glass. Use white color for the exterior surface of the temple has a particular purpose. The white color is believed to symbolize purity, while white glass symbolizes the Buddhist wisdom of Buddha who shines brightly in all the earth and the universe.
Being in the temple complex, you’ll pass a bridge that represents the cycle of birth to return to the residence of the Buddha. Half a small circle that existed before the bridge is denoted as the human world while a large circle with a canine is Rahu’s mouth, a representation of hell or suffering. Read the rest of this entry »
In Bangkok, miang Kham usually only presented in a classy fine dining restaurants. Chapu leaves are presented in separate dishes, then at a larger plate arranged a variety of small containers whose contents various kondimen savory, such as: srundeng, dried shrimp, peanuts, fried / roasted, sliced ginger, and there is also a kind of savory spicy thick sauce. Kondimen versatile little we take it, wrapped it in leaves chapu, then eaten with a bite.
In Chiangmai, Thailand’s second largest city, are presented in different miang Kham. Although basically similar, but in Chiangmai kondimen it all – plus shredded chicken – cooked into a dish rather nyemek, and disendokkan chapu into the leaf. This mode is far more practical. But, what if for example there who do not like ginger, or are allergic to chicken, so it must be hallowed it first? Read the rest of this entry »