Sara Sarver

A few weeks ago, Brook and I went to camp.  Camp?  Yes, camp.  For a whole weekend.  With 50 other Thai friends from our church.  And, I’ll bet you a whole bag of Tostitos Hint of Lime (those are like gold over here!) that our camp looked nothing like the camps that you’ve ever been [...]

I couldn’t believe it, when going through my collection of Tasty Tuesdays thus far, that I have yet to do one on perhaps Thailand’s most well-known dish across the globe.  How could I have missed it?  After all, I probably eat it once a week.  I see it everywhere I go.  And, as I said [...]

This week’s tasty Thai treat is something called โรตีสายไหม – Roti Sai Mai – also lovingly known as a “cotton candy burrito” among English speakers. If you remember from the last Tasty Tuesday, a roti is basically any kind of flat pancake / bread / tortilla / crepe type food that can be wrapped around [...]

The blogging has been lacking around here the past few weeks, I know.  It has been rather exciting here in real life though!  My goal is to write about it in the next week or so, as it should slow down for a few days.  We’ve had visitors, then camp, then studies, gardening, meeting more [...]

The latter part of this past week was an adventure for Brook and I in more ways than one.  We experienced new foods, Thai river life, a coconut grove in the jungle, a camp completely run in Thai with no translators for 3 whole days… it was stretching, exciting, tiring, and wonderful all at the [...]

Sometimes I seriously wonder what the people of Thailand think of us in terms of our intelligence and language ability.  Those two things really do go hand in hand here, at least as far as first impressions go. I’m sure you’ve all heard it before, the idea that in order to assimilate well into your [...]

Having quite recently professed my preference of rice to noodles, is it hypocritical that I’ve had two posts in a row now that sing the praises of Thai noodle dishes? Nah, if you consider how many 100′s of other noodles there are out there in the Thai food world, me liking just two is no [...]

When Brook and I were still in school at Huntington University, we spent a good bit of time researching and learning about the world’s many differing religions.  We made it a point to study about Buddhism in particular, as we knew we would be spending most of our Senior year living abroad and working here [...]

How did you feel the first time you ever started up the engine of a car by yourself?  Was is thrilling?  Exciting?  Were you nervous?  Ready?  Or just plain terrified? When it came time for me to learn how to drive (back in the States), I was excited and ready.  I had a good deal [...]

Mmmm… noodles. When I am in the mood for noodles (which doesn’t happen very often – I’m more of a rice girl), there are 3 Thai dishes I like to go for: Phat Thai, Kuay Tieaw, and Rad Naa. The last one, Rad Naa, is what I’m going to introduce you to today. Check it [...]