Khoa Tom Mud (ข้าวต้มมัด)
“Khoa Tom Mud” is one of Thai local wisdom which may be Thai sweet. This sweet is cooked from stick rice, coconut milk, sugar, and a little salt. Ripe Banana will be put in the inner. Black big beans will be stirred together with sticky rice, coconut milk, sugar, and a little salt before wrapping banana. Then they will be wrapped by banana leaf before steaming. It is very convenient to carry and eat because no spoon or bowl is needed. You just peel out banana leaf and eat. This “Khoa Tom Mud” has been done for a long time before the plastic bags are used widely. Thai farmers or gardeners put “Khoa Tom Mud” in their bags for their sweet after lunch and go to work in their fields or gardens where are very far from their
homes.
Thai people especially in the north-east of Thailand cook “Khoa Tom Mud” when they celebrate the
religion ceremony such as “Magha Puja” day, “Vesak” day, or “Vassa” day. This means that it is a very
special occasion to cook “Khoa Tom Mud”.
Some of “Khoa Tom Mud” comes in pairs, so people who want and wish to have long and continuous
marry life will put “Khoa Tom Mud” in the monk’s bowl. They hope that they and their love ones will
stay together until the end of their life. Moreover, “Khoa Tom Mud” consists of ripe banana and sugar
which may refer to their marry life will be sweet forever because ripe banana and sugar are sweet. Even
though salt is opposite to ripe banana and sugar, but it is needed for their life.
Some may hear that life always has two aspects: good-bad, sweet-bitter, or happy-unhappy. People
face with laugh or cry one day or another. People who have rank today, one day in the future, their
rank may be gone. Thus, Buddha teaches us to live or stay in the middle way and careful when doing
anything. This is why a bit salt is put into “Khoa Tom Mud”, so it is not too sweet.
Some may think that the above paragraph is none sense because there is no proved. When I was young,
I absolutely agreed with this, but now I change. Sometimes, something, or some stories do not need to
be proved. It is just because you belief and you feel happy or relax to do so. Don’t you think so?
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