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🇹🇭 Thai · Beginner Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 26 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Soup

New Year's Eve afternoon in the kitchen, Aunt Oy's chicken soup step by step: boil the water first, then the galangal and the lemongrass, not the chicken yet, mushrooms first, last the lime and fish sauce; Jack says it all back, and he is a boatbuilder, not a cook: first, then, last.

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THE STORY

The kitchen of the house behind the pier, New Year's Eve afternoon: Aunt Oy at the pot, Jack beside her. Aunt Oy speaks to Jack plainly; Jack keeps the polite word.

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แจ็ค, ซุป นะ. ต้ม น้ำ ก่อน.jaek, súp ná. tôm náam kàawn.Jack, the soup. Boil the water first.
น้ำ ก่อน. แล้ว ก็ อะไร ครับ?náam kàawn. láeo kâw à-rai khráp?The water first. Then?
แล้ว ก็ ใส่ ข่า กับ ตะไคร้.láeo kâw sài khàa kàp tà-khrái.Then put in the galangal and the lemongrass.
แล้ว ก็ ไก่ ครับ?láeo kâw kài khráp?Then the chicken?
ยัง. เห็ด ก่อน, แล้ว ก็ ไก่.yang. hèt kàawn, láeo kâw kài.Not yet. First the mushrooms, then the chicken.
สุดท้าย. มะนาว กับ น้ำปลา.sùt-tháai. má-naao kàp náam-plaa.Last. Lime and fish sauce.
น้ำ ก่อน, เห็ด, ไก่. สุดท้าย มะนาว ครับ.náam kàawn, hèt, kài. sùt-tháai má-naao khráp.Water first, mushrooms, chicken, last the lime.
ผม ช่าง เรือ ครับ, ไม่ ใช่ พ่อ ครัว!phǒm châang ruea khráp, mâi châi phâw khrua!I'm a boatbuilder, not a cook!