What is “Somchun”? What does it consist of? What are its benefits?

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What is “Somchun”? What does it consist of? *What are its benefits?

During this summer, Thailand has many ways to cool down. One interesting thing is food, and “Somchun” is another dessert menu that cools down and refreshes you very well. However, many people may not know what “Somchun” is, what it consists of, and what are its benefits.

Somchun

What is Somchun?

If we look at the meaning according to the dictionary, “somchun” is a หรือถ้าคุณสนใจแทงบอลออนไลน์ UFABET คือเว็บที่มีอัตราต่อรองดีที่สุดในประเทศไทย สมัครเลยตอนนี้ที่ UFABET แทงบอล type of food using sour fruits. Such as raw mangoes or raw star gooseberries mixed with dried shrimps, seasoned with fish sauce and sugar. Which are also dried in the sun, or called “som lim”. For these ingredients, it is considered to be the villagers’ somchun, but if it is the somchun that looks like “loi kaew”, it will be a royal recipe.

In addition, many people wonder why it is called Somchun. Which is assumed from the royal composition of the poem Kap He Chom Krueng Khao Wan by King Phutthaloetla Naphalai (Rama II). Leading to the assumption that people in the palace may have called the lychee fruit “Somchun”, as in

“Lychee is pondering. Calling it Somchun using the name. Thinking back to the sweet and sour tongue, flirting with a hundred-step procession”.

Or it may mean calling a floating dessert with lychee as the main ingredient “Somchun”. Where “Som” means a sour fruit. While “Chun” may refer to the liquor-like smell of pickled lychee. In the past, lychee was a fruit imported from China in the form of pickled whole fruits. Before transportation was developed, making it possible to import fresh fruits and canned lychee.

When eating pickled lychee, it must be seasoned and som sa must be used to remove the liquor smell.

That is the origin of the name Somchun, a royal recipe that must have lychee as the main ingredient, followed by other seasonal fruits.

For the Somchun used in this article, there are ma yong chit, sliced ​​ginger, sliced ​​raw mango, candied palm fruit in a flavored floating water, seasoned, then squeezed with lime juice for a cool aroma. When eating, you will feel refreshed.