Wonderful morning with deep-fried doughstick and soy milk at Kow Jow market

               Most of Thai people like having coffee with gruel and deep-fried doughsticks with soy milk for healthy eating when they wake up in the morning. So the subject of this trip was to discover delicious deep-fried doughstick and soy milk at Kow Jow morning market.

Kow Jow market is located beside Lampang train station. A local person wandered and spent money at Kow Jow market. Aunt Mei and uncle Kow Lin, a lovely  couple and food shop owner. Pretty grandmother was  trading her product. Proof dough was preparing to fry. Dough was frying by well-skilled cooker. The yummy deep-fried doughstick was ready to eat.

               Kow Jow market - a large fresh morning market where is more famous in Lampang province. Kow jow market is located beside Lampang train station. Along the way has many shops are installed which offering merchandise and variety of foods to sale such as meat, vegetables, local fruits, local food and wild products; moreover there is unique deep-fried doughstick which local persons and visitors recommended to try it once.

               At Aunt Mei and Uncle Kow Lin’s food shop, they offered very tasty soy milk, ginger ale and deep-fried doughsticks. Their deep-fried doughsticks were crispy outside, smooth inside, not oil-rich, yummy and much smaller than general deep-fried doughsticks. The other specials were deep-fried doughsticks were still crispy and not sticky around an hour; furthermore they had experience with that food about 7 years. So they have a lot of regular customers about 80% until now.

               By day Aunt Mei and Uncle Kow Lin start making soy milk and preparing dough until 9 to 12 pm, after that they peddle soy milk, ginger ale and deep-fried doughsticks with barrow to the following place: in front of the bank, Atsawin market and Kow Jow market. If visitors would like to eat ready soy milk and deep-fried doughsticks, you have to go to Kow Jow market only because the shop in front of the bank and Atsawin market only provides take home soy milk and deep-fried doughsticks. Their shop at Kow Jow market was contained a table and five chairs which customer who is first come is first served. It was funny that some customers had to eat while they were standing because of lot of regular customers and no available seats.

 

               To process deep-fried doughsticks, they used flour over 10 kg a day. If let us calculate how many deep-fried doughsticks they sold, you would surprise with their circulation. They made 100 pairs of them for 1 kg of flour. So if they used 10 kg of flour, they could sell it about 1,000 pairs of them. Then they could provide 1,000 pairs of deep-fried doughsticks a day at least. A pair of deep-fried doughsticks, a pouch of soy milk and addition soy milk’s costs were 50 satang (0.5 bath), 3 bath and 6 bath that the customers can order the special additions like black jelly, Job’s tear, lemon basil seed, sweet potato preserve, agar and sago into soy milk.
 

Soy milk and many kinds of delicious addition.	The ginger ale and soy milk already provided for a customer.
	The ginger ale and soy milk already provided for a customer.

               For visitors who stay whole night at Lampang province and would like to wander at Kow Jow market, you have to wake up since 6 o’clock. In that time, you can breathe of morning market atmosphere besides the train station and enjoy a lot of good foodstuffs particularly soy milk and deep-fried doughsticks at Mei aunt and Kow Lin uncle’s food shop. For one who hardly wakes up early in the morning, you should try to do it early. After that just wander around the morning market near your house, then you will impress with new experience and unseen stuffs.

 
The legend of deep-fried doughsticks

                The legend of deep-fried doughstick was related to Chinese story. Once upon a time in China, the soldier named Hakhuy who was brave, strong and beloved among people. He was loyal to the King Kow Jong. One day, he and the troops had to fight against the Gim (the gad lived between China and Korea religions). Hakhuy tried his best in the war, finally he was almost done but the King Kow Jong commanded the army to retreat because there was the spy named Ching Kwai convinced him to give up in that war. When Hakhuy and the troops returned to their land, Ching Kwai accused him to the King Kow Jong that he was a revolter. After that Hakhuy and his child was arrested. Despite there was no any evidence but Ching Kwai used the dark authority and assaulted him and his child to jail. So they were executed, though there were not guilty. Finally Chinese was angry for that unfair situation, so they made a pair of deep-fried doughstick called “Ew Ja Kwi” but Thai people called “Pa Tong Go” which was represented people’s anger to Ching Kwai and his wife. They thought flour was same as Ching Kwai and his wife’s meat, so they ate much of deep-fried doughstick for liberating their bitterness.

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