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Songkran

Thai New Year in the hottest month, with rice in iced jasmine water and ripe mango with sticky rice.

Songkran Location : Wat Khung Taphao Ban Khung Taphao , Khung Taphao subdistrict, Mueang Uttaradit , Uttaradit Province , Thailand .
Photo: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is eaten for Songkran

Songkran is the Thai New Year, kept from 13 to 15 April with water poured over Buddha images, elders' hands and everyone in the street. People take food to the temple in the morning to offer to the monks. It is the hottest time of the year, and the dish of the season is khao chae, rice served in cold water scented with jasmine, with small fried and sweet side dishes. Mangoes are at their best, so mango with sticky rice is everywhere. Lao and Khmer New Year fall on the same days.

The dishes

Mango sticky riceRipe mango with coconut sticky rice, at its peak in April.LarbMinced meat salad eaten at Lao New Year, its name sounds like luck.

Also part of it, and being written: Khao chae (Rice in iced jasmine water, made for the hot season.), Sticky rice in bamboo (Kralan, roasted in bamboo for Khmer New Year.).

More dishes made for Songkran

Thingyan riceFish or seafoodသင်္ကြန်ထမင်း 🇲🇲 Myanmar and 1 moreRice in scented water, served cold with fried dried fish for the Burmese New Year Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
About this page

Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Songkran (Thailand)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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