And for me, the factor that I saved on saying on the first trip is: Thailand isn't a monoculture. Otherwise you might have the local Phuket cuisine, which includes the intersection of Peranakan delicacies with Southern Thai components, coconut milk and that form of thing. There have been the Malay people, and then the Straits Chinese, and then there’s the central Thai folks.
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