Although the food was prepared over a fire in the "kitchen" it was put on little floor tables and we all sat around them to eat main meals. i.e. breakfast lunch and dinner.
When it wasn't a main meal we were usually huddled around another floor table in the kitchen eating fruit of some sort like the picture below.
Below is a pan of silk worms specifically grown to eat. They stir fried them and served them with sticky rice. The taste wasn't bad, but for me it was my mind that couldn't get past eating a worm especially when it squished in your mouth. Preston however ate a couple of them wrapped in sticky rice.
On Thursday we visited another house and they slaughtered a goat. Literally every part of the goat that could be eaten WAS used. I mean every part consumed including the blood of the goat. The men butcher the goat and cut it into the appropriate pieces then they hand over the bowls of meat to the women to prepare the food.
The picture below is of some of the plates that were created. In the center was the bowls of goats blood with either slices of liver, or goat meat on top Im not sure because it was the only dish I did NOT partake of.
Above is right before we all began to eat. A toast was made and we all dug in.
Between meals more fruit was consumed. Above is Preston and his friend enjoying dragon fruit. One of Preston's favorite fruits. Below is the mother of our guy friend preparing the sticky rice for dinner.
Like I said in post part 1, in Black Tai culture friendship is cultivated over food and drink...BOY DID WE EAT! By Thursday night I was so full and people were still trying to feed us. :)
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