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| Wan Sat Jeen offering |
Welcome to Wan Sat Jeen, otherwise known as the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival. We are exposed to it less now that we have moved to the centre of town.
But this time last year, when we still lived in a market dominated by Thai-Chinese, it was all around us. Apart from the firecrackers and the traders burning paper in bins, I remember the large crowds at the local market, buying duck as offerings to their ancestors.
Last year I tried buying half a boiled duck to eat. A market trader told me that Thais buy whole ducks, not half ones at this time of year; and buy them as offerings to ancestors, not for consumption. So that’s why the birds looked so tatty!
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Maiyuu is making banana cakes for Golf, a woman friend.
He made a tray of cakes today, which he will take to her in a cardboard box this evening.
Thai-Chinese are great traders. Maiyuu has Chinese blood (though he doesn’t observe Wan Sat Jeen).
It would be great if this box of cakes were to be the start of a home baking venture.
He could put his Chinese trader ancestry, if he has any, to good use, and supplement our household income at the same time.
Home baking, anyone?
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