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Thai style fishing in Australia

Once our fearless Crocodile Whisperer had dealt with the rouge crocodile we all settled down for a morning of fishing Australian style but cooking and eating it with a Thai twist.

Ariya was the keenest and wasted no time dipping her line in the water.

My Sister in law, her daughter and my youngest (left) were a little less enthusiastic but as soon as they started biting they quickly changed their attitude!

Can you believe that all that water behind Ariya is the overflow from Lake Argyle, the 2nd biggest fresh water lake in Australia, and at that stage it hadn’t rained for over three months!

Once the fish started out-numbering the fishermen my Brother in law quickly lit a campfire and started cooking up a feast.

The younger girls were not all that interested in the fish but wasted no time devouring the dried beef (เนื้อย่าง) and sticky rice (ข้าวเหนียว) that we had prepared earlier that morning and cooked over the campfire.

After all his hard work earlier coupled with a huge feed the Crocodile Whisper also looked rather stuffed.

After eating about 1/3 of the fish and packing the other 2/3rd in the esky to take home we bid farewell to the Crocodile Whisperer and his entourage and made a slight detour on the way home via Lake Argyle to show off the massive lake to the inlaws.

Here are my two girls with their cousin and just a small part of the massive lake behind them.

After a little sight seeing we treated the kids to some yummy ice cream at the local shop before heading home and beginning the long process of gutting, cleaning and freezing an esky full of fish.

After devouring her ice cream Marisah decided to ham it up for the camera with her Daddies hat.

BBQ chicken Thai style (Gai Yung/Gai Ping ไก่ย่าง ไก่ปิ้ง)

A visit to the village always involves a lot of eating. When I was there a few days ago my wife Seerung decided she wanted some BBQ chicken. In Thai it is called Gai Yung ไก่ย่าง or around these parts because of the Laos influence it is also called Gai Ping ไก่ปิ้ง Now these local chickens are not how most of you prefer your chicken. These dead chooks are as tough as grandfathers leather belt that survived the war….. and that is the way they love it! In New Zealand my parents save Seerung their oldest and toughest chooks just for her!

I must admit when I first tried it many years ago I wasn’t all that impressed but the tough texture grows on you and served up with fresh hot sticky rice (ข้าวเหนียว) it is now a real treat. The kids love it as well.

When Seerung put in her request to the brother in law I thought I might take a few photos of the process and share them with you here.

First of all you need to catch the Chicken.

Then you need to cut its neck. They do this very neatly and not how I remember my mother doing it (head severed) as they want to collect the blood.

Draining the blood. They will use this to cook another type of dish.

Make sure your coals are lit so they will be ready in time.

Sister in law is plucking the now dead chicken in some hot water.

Brother in law starts on chicken number 2 while my daughter Marisah looks on with fascination.

More plucking.

Burning those last remaining feathers off.

Splitting it in half.

Everything gets eaten. Everything.

Cooking over the coals.

The finished product. Yummo!

My niece loved her intestines.

Did I mentioned that everything gets eaten?

The dogs will be happy.