This is my kitchen. Here in Saipan having a comfortably cool home is expensive so cooking outside makes sense. It’s fun too.
Anytime between 5–10 PM the air around the apartment complex is filled with the sweet smell of steamed fresh veggies or fried fish and sesame oil. As people make their dinners you’ll catch sight of them ducking back inside for an extra splash of something.
Everyone has a slightly different style from what I can tell. My neighbor has a little plastic caddy she brings out so everything is at hand. A woman across the parking lot comes out with everything she needs in the wok already and just plops it on the little stove top.
I learned how wise their ways are through trial and error. I broke a soy sauce bottle, spilled quantities of oil on the ground, and tipped a tray of broccoli and peppers before settling on a my method for dinner making. Nothing fancy. I put a dollop of oil in the pan before I bring it outside. I cut all my veggies up inside on my kitchen table and trot them out as needed. My stir-fry sauce I mix up in a little jar and bring out right when I need it. The results are delicious!
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Your dinner looks delicious! Did you put hot Thai peppers in it?
I keep putting more and more Thai peppers in my food.
This morning for breakfast I chopped 4 of those little demons up and through my hiccups though, maybe one more would have been better. (I get hiccups when I eat something really hot, is that normal?)
Yum Yum. We ordered Toi’s Thai take-out last night, but this would definitely compete! Miss ya.
Hey that sounds great! This was the first dinner after grocery shopping so it has a little of everything in it. (And was big enough for 3.) I’ve not found anything like Toi’s good Thai food here, she’s hard to beat. But I’ve had a wicked coconut milk potato soup and there’s still one Thai place I haven’t tried…