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Chiang Mai, Thailand
6 dishes to eat in Chiang Mai, what is in them, and where they belong.
The northern curry noodle soup — coconut broth, boiled and crisped egg noodles, pickled mustard greens, lime. This is its home.
Northern herb sausage with lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime, grilled over charcoal.
Two northern chilli dips — one tomato and pork, one roasted green chilli — eaten with sticky rice and crisp pork.
Fermented rice noodles in a tomato and pork-blood broth with dried flowers. Very local, rarely on English menus.
Gai yang with sticky rice and som tam, from roadside charcoal grills.
Doi Chang and Doi Tung arabica, grown as crop-substitution projects and now genuinely good.