#Suan Kaew Food Festival
🛕Wat Saphan Sung, Pak Kret District, Nonthaburi Province, is an ancient temple since the reign of King Rama II. This temple has 3 famous monks, including Luang Pu Eiam, Luang Pu Klin, and Luang Pu Thongsuk. Legend has it that if anyone enters this church, their life will change immediately. And if you walk under the base of the principal Buddha image in the chapel, your bad life will turn into good. Because Luang Pu Eiam often uses this chapel to perform rituals to bless amulets, inscribe sacred letters, and perform meditation. 🛕The temple has opened this chapel as a special occasion for us to pay homage to the principal Buddha image in the chapel and have the opportunity to walk under the base for good luck in life. You can also walk around important places in the temple, such as the Luang Pu Eiam Wihan, the three-tiered pagoda, and the Luang Pu Eiam Museum. Anyone interested in walking under the base of the principal Buddha image in the chapel, get ready. Mr. Kluay Chanyut Sewatsawan, Director of TAT Bangkok Office The temple has requested permission to open it specially for the public to visit during the upcoming Songkran Festival, which is April 13-15, 2025.
🌉Saphan Sung, the origin of the temple's name 'Saphan Sung', was originally a wooden bridge, but now it has become a concrete bridge.
📸The Tourism Authority of Thailand organized a Media Fam Trip to take us to the 2nd Suan Kaew Food Culture Power Event.
🥭We wanted to try cooking with GI mangoes from Nonthaburi Province because people may not know much about this type of mango. We thought about how to make people more familiar with Ya Klam mangoes.
Suan Kaew Temple used to organize a food festival, so we came up with the idea of making it a temple food festival because we organized it at the temple. Last year, we did a chef's table and sold courses of food. This year, we had the chefs try making a menu using mangoes. Luang Pho Phayom really liked it. There were a lot of Ya Klam mangoes at the temple, so it was a way to promote the sale of the produce.” This year, Ya Klam mangoes were used in a menu called Ya Klam Mango and Ancient Dried Fish Soup.
🧑🍳Chef Noon-Patcharanan Saengruang Wechakul, Head Quarter Chef from Kiew Kai Ka restaurant (who oversees all 6 branches of Kiew Kai Ka restaurant), created a delicious menu for Suan Kaew Food Festi-Wat 2.
Nang Ek rice cooked in young coconut water mixed with saffron, served with river prawns stir-fried in tamarind sauce, a royal recipe.
#Grandma Klom's Mango Curry with Ancient Dried Fish and Nang Ek rice cooked in young coconut water mixed with saffron. When cooked, the rice will be pink and appetizing. It has a sweet coconut flavor. Served with river prawns stir-fried in tamarind sauce, a royal recipe.
#Grandma Klom's Mango Curry The raw mangoes are clear when cooked. The sourness of the mangoes can easily replace tamarind. When the dried fish is added, it immediately becomes delicious like an ancient curry.
🍰For dessert, there is fresh coconut milk panna cotta with Grandma Klom's Mango Sauce and roasted coconut crumble, served with Khao Niew Moon Luem Phua is the creation of ‘Chef Tiw’ Phuritat Petchkanchanakul, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu Dusit Culinary School. 🍸🍹Refillable drinks include Butterfly Pea Lime Juice, which instantly turns your afternoon drowsiness into a morning refreshment. For those with a sweet tooth, order the Suan Kaew Sugarcane Juice, a sugarcane grown right here at Wat Suan Kaew. The three-course menu costs 899 baht, and you can just walk in and eat without having to wait.
# For this trip, after visiting Wat Saphan Sung, we went to ‘Wat Suan Kaew’, taking a golf cart tour of the temple to see the agricultural plants that Luang Pho Phayom diligently selected and planted on 375 rai of land, originally starting at 3 rai.
This Wat Suan Kaew has about 7 monks living there, but there are many families working at the temple, helping to take care of the cows, buffaloes, and goats that were redeemed, as well as the stray dogs and cats that the temple has taken care of, fed, and cleaned the animal pens. Use animal waste to make fertilizer, etc. Have a chance to see the mango tree of Grandma Klam, the trunk is very big. Thinking about how to climb up to pick mangoes is tiring. The mango tree of Grandma Klam is very tall. 🥭 These 'mango trees' were attached to the land before becoming temple land. Therefore, each tree should not be less than 30 years old. This type of mango is suitable for eating ripe. The fruit is as big as a fist. The raw fruit is very sour.
Visit the various fruit gardens. There are rose apples, Grandma Klam mangoes, Nonthaburi durians, many varieties of bananas, and cocoa. Then come back to eat food made by Chef Noon-Patcharanan Saengruangwetchakul and 'Chef Tiw' Phuritat Phetkanchanakul. Then go to see various activities.
👉 Check-in point for taking souvenir photos inside Suan Kaew Temple There are places to feed fish, ducks, and geese.
👉In the Suan Kaew Food Festi-Wat 2 event, more than 30 restaurants that have passed the 5-star chef's glass standards have been selected, with more than 100 menus, such as 'Crispy pork leg' that is not oily, 'Ancient Khanom Krok' and 'Bua Loi Song Krueng' with full ingredients, Crispy Kroang Krang, Crispy and salty, Crispy Roti that is baked instead of fried, 'Khao Kriap Wao', 'Khao Kriap Wao grilled on a charcoal stove', Fried pork coated with a special sauce, with stir-fried rice vermicelli in Nakhon Pathom style, Pork sausage without flour, Fresh coconut flower nectar from the 'Luk Lan' garden, which takes 50 years to bear fruit, Traditional Thai desserts and herbal drinks. There are many more that cannot be mentioned here.
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