Tasty Thai buffalo wing -Street food

These chicken wings are main dish on many streetside shops in Bangkok and other parts of Thailand. Never try it means you not really in Thailand.


Thais soaked the wings with soy sauce or fish sauce and some other ingredients like garlic or peper ,marinates for an hour or more ,then grill it on fire along street's footpath .The by-product of this dish is a plume of smog or foggy-smelly smoke rising up on the sidewalk.

Well.....this is one of the crazy dish in Bangkok.Welcome yourself with one of these when you were there.This food is not means for westernner ,just for ordinary thai people so this is not a tourist thing.


Most shop that sell it are Northeastern food shop or E-sarn food shop.You may tried thai food in the past in your own country but I have to say those Thai restaurant around the world mostly sell Thai central food (Just a central thai cusine) .While in Thailand we have other cusine as well: Northern,Southern and Northeastern .We will talk about those cusine later.



ปีก - Peek means = wing

ไก่ - Gai means = chicken

Then ปีกไก่ - Peek-Gai = Chicken wings

ปิ้ง - Ping means = Grilled



A good news is the menu is not hot . Unless you put in an accompany black-and-smell chili concentrated sauce(or jaew - แจ่ว in Thai.)

Adidas football museum

Our work rapidly deteriorate since the world cup begins in South Africa. Fewer updates and seem like all things just stop now… ….ha ha ha.

Well…one of us here found an Adidas Exhibition in Bangkok .This is a showcase for all world cup’s official footballs made by Adidas in the pass 40 years .

Also, Dont miss our scoop: Behind Adidas World Cup 2010 Football design


Let see all Adidas balls here :



Above: Telstar 1970 World Cup Mexico



Above: Telstar 1974 World Cup Germany



Above: Tango 1978 World Cup Argentina



Above: Tango Espana 1970 World Cup spain



Above: Azteca 1986 World Cup Mexico



Above: Questra 1994 World Cup USA



Above: Tricolore 1998 World Cup France



Above: Fevernova 2002 World Cup South Korea Japan



Above: Teamgeist 2006 World Cup Germany




Above: Jabulani 2010 World Cup South Africa

Strange railway carriages service in Thailand.

We found an old looking poster at Hat Yai railway station .The poster has many pictures and informs about all various services of Thai railway.

But. Have you ever seen this following two services ? :



Air-conditioned Reserved Saloon


Air-conditioned conference car

Are these really put in service ? or just a show case and long forgotten ? No one know and what we really sure is no one on Eastcode team never seen any of this “concept railroad car” before.

Rocket festival vdo in Phonsavan,Lao

Our friend at Hotsia.com capture this video clip from a paddy field not far from Phonsavan,Laos . One of our team accompany him said This is not the biggest rocket but quite impressive lah!

Laos and Thai(in the Northeast)use home made rocket to ask "Pa-ya Tan",the lord of sky,to give them seasonal rain and posperity.

Old Posters bring old nemories of the brave Elephant round up

On 18 March 2010, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) just turned 50 ! The old name was Tourist Organization of Thailand and I found this old poster from the organization ‘s exhibition .

The English poster said :

“Elephant round up
November 16-17 ,1963

in Thailand
Ask your travel agents or write the tourist organization of Thailand for details…”

You can see clearly that the elephant tamer hold a long stick with a lasso rope for catching a wild elephant.

The Thai word for “elephant round up” is “คล้องช้าง” (Klong-Chang) .The word Chang is means Elephant (So Chang Beer is means elephant beer!)


Oh 1963! Seem like a lifetime ago ! The Vietnam war still raging on and the American Military involving more and more in Vietnam,Laos and Thailand at that time.

The address of this poster still use the old one at Rajdamnoen Ave ,not far from Khaosan road and the main royal palace.
Wow……Thailand changed a lot in the past 50 years.


The elephant round up is an archaic traditional Siam practice of round up wild elephants in to a big trap by a group of hunters –tamer and some domesticated elephants . Those wild one will be tamed to work as a domesticated elephant work force.



But the Thai version said something a bit different :



Hard to see! Exciting!

Also It’s just the elephant show not a word mentioned any thing about round up .I thinks that because the word might not so catchy in Thai .

Also this is said clearly that the show locates in Surin province in the Northeast and close to Cambodian border. Years later,This show will organizes annually in the province and become famous worldwide.

But the group of Tamers who handdle an ancient art of capturing one of the most dangerous and biggest wild animal and tamed them for domestic use are the "Suay" or "Kuy" people.(call kuy is more polite) .They are Not ethinic Thai or Lao or not even Cambodian.They are an ethnic group of their own and one of the oldest settler in this region.