phiketpete Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 Watching the TV this morning there was a little feature on the good old som tam girls of Hualamphong station Never having been down there I had always assumed that they were 60 year old good time girls at the end of their carrers. The group that this feature focussed on were young girls (20's) and I have seen far worse walking up and down Sukhumvit. However the pictures were taken from some distance. They go the whole nine yards in pretending to sell somtam,carrying all the paraphenalia but as the presenter noticed If all they are selling is som tam why do they need to wear so much make up. Now that it has been openly shown what actually goes on down there I wonder if this will now lead to a clamp down on som tam sellers around the city as part of this new govts clean up campaign. Get your som tam while you can [ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: phiketpete ] [ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: phiketpete ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BkkShaggy Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 This news has been around for a few months now. This som tam thing happens to be around Hualamphong station only and it is catered to locals. I think the police won't do drastic thing like cleaning up all som tam sellers as you said.(You were joking - right?) After all, the police love som tam too [ June 19, 2001: Message edited by: BkkShaggy ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phiketpete Posted June 19, 2001 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 Shaggy, Err.. Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 Can somebody please tell me what a somtam is ? I assume it's fruit or something... mischa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 20, 2001 Report Share Posted June 20, 2001 Mischa28 Som Tam is a dish originating from the North East,Issan region of Thailand. It consists of shredded green papaya, dried shrimp or crab claws, lime juice, garlic,fish sauce and chillies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 20, 2001 Report Share Posted June 20, 2001 Don't forget the authentic Isaan somtaan has the secret ingrediant the rotten fish juice b lar or something said like that, and I don't mean Pla as in fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BkkShaggy Posted June 20, 2001 Report Share Posted June 20, 2001 quote: Originally posted by kratai: Don't forget the authentic Isaan somtaan has the secret ingrediant the rotten fish juice b lar or something said like that, and I don't mean Pla as in fish. Kratai, Actually,the fish jouice you mentioned is called "Pla Rah". Very aromatic indeed BkkShaggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 21, 2001 Report Share Posted June 21, 2001 the bangkok post ran a feature about the "som tam girls" at the train station about a year ago- it didn't do anything to stop business then- none of them speak english and although the going rate is about 300 baht, i didn't think it was much value Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 21, 2001 Report Share Posted June 21, 2001 please please tell me that som tum guy outside woodstock/g-spot is not secretly a good-time gal! that's where my BG sources her/our som tum and i'd hate to think with a wink and a nod i could have got him back to the room too. its bad enough having to run the casanova gauntlet on the way downstairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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