Word: thai
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...medium Pineapple• 3 Tbsp. Cooking Oil• 4-6 Garlic cloves, coarsely chopped• 3 Tbsp. Shallots, diced• 4 oz. Spam, cut into small dice• 1/2 Tbsp. Ginger, finely chopped• 4 cups Day-old rice• 2-3 Tbsp. Fish sauce• 1-2 Tbsp. Thai soybean sauce• 1 Tbsp. Sugar• 1/2 Tbsp. Curry powder• 2 to 3 Green onions, chopped• 2 tsp. White pepper• 3 Tbsp. Cilantro leaves
...Thais believe that a person's soul abides in the crown of the hair on top of the head. To bump, hit, rub, or touch the head is to offend the soul, perhaps causing it to run away from home." - Handbook for foreign students at a Thai university...
...many Thais hope his no-nonsense style will help their national team achieve something unprecedented: a place at the World Cup finals in 2014. It is a daunting task. Reid must motivate not only talented yet underperforming young Thai players but also millions of cynical Thai fans who would much rather watch English Premier League football than their often amateurish homegrown variety. Though Reid has a four-year contract, his honeymoon period will be much shorter. "People want the Thai team to upgrade itself, and not just into an Asian powerhouse," says Tor Chittinand, soccer correspondent for the Bangkok Post...
...farcical performances that date back to the team's notorious match against Indonesia at the 1998 ASEAN championships. Both teams set out to lose, since the winner would play a stronger team in the next round. Indonesia lost 3-2 after deliberately scoring against themselves. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the Thai national team has a less than fanatical following. Only 25,000 spectators went to watch the team play Japan in Bangkok earlier this year - and most of those were Japanese. (Thailand lost...
...That seems almost inevitable. A billionaire populist, Thaksin was deposed in a 2006 military coup amid corruption charges and now lives in exile overseas. His supporters, reconstituted as the PPP, won elections last year. Even before the PPP was banned, another shell party called Puea Thai had been formed. Somchai, who is Thaksin's brother-in-law, is now exiled from politics. But other Thaksin allies will helm Puea Thai, from which the next Prime Minister will likely be picked in the next week...