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October 24th, 2006 by Andrew Walker · 5 Comments

Spotted in London:

global thai.jpg

Tags: Snapshots · Thailand

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 So-what // Oct 24, 2006 at 7:18 am

    Uh, you can get Thai food in London? Wow! What’s next… Indian food?

  • 2 Andrew Walker // Oct 24, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    What’s next …. perhaps a sense of humour?

  • 3 chris white // Oct 24, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    Yeah – perhaps ‘tim tam’ is so culturally specific that only the white fellas get it.

    Or perhaps the reality mixing up ‘dimsum’, ‘noodle bar’ and ‘tim tams’ says something about ‘Thai’ identity that the proponents of an essentialist ‘Thai’ world view find difficult to come to terms with.

  • 4 So-what // Oct 25, 2006 at 4:28 pm

    Sorry, what do white fellas think when they see “tim tam?”

  • 5 chris white // Oct 26, 2006 at 1:15 pm

    Hi so-what

    Have a look at this first:

    http://www.arnotts.com.au/products/TimTam.aspx

    Then if you would like to put it all in to some context have a look here:

    http://journal.media-culture.org.au/9811/timtam.php

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