Touring THAILAND without leaving MINNESOTA! (MinnesoThai Street Food Festival)

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: salt + vinegar

Soy sauce is easier to find and lower in sodium.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: pork

Tofu is plant-based and often less expensive.

peanuts

🥗Healthier: sunflower seeds

💰Cheaper: cashews

Sunflower seeds provide similar crunch with fewer allergens.

Thai basil

🥗Healthier: sweet basil

💰Cheaper: regular basil

Sweet basil is more widely available and still aromatic.

Visit the Minnesota Thai Festival and explore various food booths.

Order a Thai sausage with lemongrass and garlic from an unnamed booth.

Receive two types of Thai sausages: one with lemongrass and one with garlic, along with a bamboo tube of purple sticky rice.

Taste the traditional Thai sausage with lemongrass, noting its chunks of meat and rich flavor.

Taste the traditional Chinese sausage, describing its sweet and spicy flavor profile and good cuts of pork.

Taste the traditional Thai sausage infused with garlic, expressing a dislike for the overpowering raw garlic flavor.

Taste the purple sticky rice served in a bamboo tube, describing its unique lavender flavor and pudding-like consistency.

Wait in line for pork skewers at Kathy's Kitchen.

Taste the pork skewers, comparing them favorably to bacon and noting the Southeast Asian spices.

Try the pork skewers with hot sauce, commenting on the unexpected mildness of the sauce.

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