Northern Thailand is a place well known for its love of afternoon BBQ, and on grills throughout the region there can be no dish more recognizable than the glowing and glistening golden sausage coils of "Sai Oua" - the delightfully spiced Northern-style sausage.
Made with either pork, beef, or sometimes buffalo, this magnificent creation has has my attention ever since my first visit in early 2010. Immediately addicted, and still hungry for it 15 years later, I love the chance today to learn more from a family making these recipes for 3 generations.
Thanks to the children and grandchildren of "Grandma Bee" in Lamphun, this recipe and tradition continue to today (even though Grandma has since passed), and we are very grateful for the chance to visit their home and see the sausage cooking process.
After tasting a few samples, and buying several kilograms to cook at home for ourselves, we proceed around the corner to a massive Northern Thai lunch (watching all that sausage be prepared, we couldn't take it any longer! The sausages take about 3 hours from start to finish, there was no way we were gonna make it :)
LOCATION:
Find Grandma Bee's "Sai Oua" Home Factory here, on Google Maps.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/iaG2E3EFhuNatL3d9