No one can call their rice Thung Lula Rong Hai Hom Mali unless it really from there just like Champagne. Its not easy to get this even if can pay that's what I heard.
Thanks. Great story. BTW I also enjoyed your recent trip reports from Pai/CM very much - nicely done.
Your pictorial on the deep-fried crickets made me laugh. Why? One of the first times I went north, I noticed my ex's mom putting out many plastic buckets with nets in the yard. These contraptions look like a mosquito net tent with the bucket in the middle, a fluorescent bulb in the middle. Strange I thought. What could they be for?
I found my answer at dinner.