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For breakfast, we headed to this local beloved shop which is selling one good khao jee pate, Lao style bread that is similar to banh mi. It’s a long bread roll filled with meats and vegies. In here, she first heated up the baguette on a griller over charcoal to get a nice crusty skin then smeared inside with pate and she put some Vietnamese ham and sausage slices as well as some fresh vegetables on top of the pate. It was a really good bread roll salad as good as what I can get from back home. They also do have khanom pak mor or the dumpling like we had last night from Ratri night market. The shop is located on the si yaek or 4 intersections near talad mhoo.
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| Vietnamese snack, crispy cracker with dried bananas (I don't know the name) |
We spent the day visiting a few temples and church around the area. This giant blue colored Naga (dragon) statue is in Wat Roi Phra Phuttabat Phu Manorom in Pong Kham. In Mukdahan as well as areas around Northeastern Thailand along the Mekong river, people here pray to Phaya Nak or Naga or some sort of dragon that believed to be living in the water here in Mekong river. Therefore, you will find a lot of temples that house Naga statue.
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| White Naga at the Phaya Si Phuchong Mukda Nakkharat Naga in Pong Kham, Mukdahan |
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| Our Lady of the Martyrs of Thailand Shrine |
The signature dish around this area is this Kaeng Kabao suckling pig from Sirichai, a restaurant by Mekong riverbank. Having these succulent porks with some spicy and sour tom yum soup and you will feel like in heaven. The meat from the suckling pig is quite thin but those crackling skins were totally addictive.
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