Colours

Where ever you travel in Thailand you will see coloured ribbons around trees, different coloured candles, Buddhas and the like.
Have you ever noticed more yellow on the streets on a Monday? In a Thai diary each day comes colour coded thus -

Sunday is red for the Sun god Phra Arthit.
Monday is yellow for the Moon god Phra Chan.
Tuesday is Pink for the Mars god Phra Angkarn.
Wednesday is green for the Mercury god Phra Phut.
Thursday is orange Jupiter god Phra Pareuhat.
Friday is sky blue for the Venus god Phra Suk.
Saturday is violet for the Saturn god Phra Sao.

If you don't know which day of the week you were born on you can find out by clicking here.

A Thais birthday will determine his or her lucky colour, visits to temples will often occur on this day of the week.

Thai Khanom

Thai Khanom

There is no getting away from the fact that Thais have a inordinate liking for all things sugary. This extends far beyond our simple western idea of sweets. You can buy coconut drinks with so much sugar your straw literally stands up by itself, to sweetened milk for your coffee. Cakes of every colour, shape and size, filled to overflowing with various sticky substances, line night markets. Everywhere you walk vendors hawk highly coloured gel's cakes and drinks. It certainly makes for a veritable feast on the eyes.

In every food store you have to look hard to find coffee that isn't already premixed with sugar, and as for the sweet section, it's enormous!
You will see bread and milk bars in most of the larger shopping malls, toast is often consumed dripping with sweet condensed milk.

Next time you sit down to a meal in a restaurant look amongst the various spicy condiments and you will find a sugar bowl and sweetened ketchup. Essential for that tasty snack.