Around October each year, when the monsoonal floods are just draining off the rice-fields, every depression fills with water that is, mysteriously, teeming with small fish.
The villagers all get involved in netting the fish, and most are sold to people who specialise in preparation of rotted fish [bara] that is so prized in NE Thailand for flavouring of the green papaya salad [somtam] which is eaten in vast quantities.
The villagers all get involved in netting the fish, and most are sold to people who specialise in preparation of rotted fish [bara] that is so prized in NE Thailand for flavouring of the green papaya salad [somtam] which is eaten in vast quantities.
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