Until We Meet Again (English Translation)

29 (end)

After the chaos, everything went normal. During the long term break, Parm decided not to go to America to visit his family, but he take a summer course at the university, together with his friends in the gang, such as ManNow, Del and Team. That is because after the short film from the acting club which get second place prize makes many students to join the club and with the credit given to the Thai dessert club, where Parm is the member, they get some new members as well.

Today, the Thai cooking club made a demonstration for the new students. Parm and the president of the club is demonstrating on how to make rice to the members. Many methods from picking, washing, boiling until steaming cause a chaos. He showed each step in details using hand to spin. He smile widely when the food is taste good. Personally he was more interested in demonstrating on how to make Thai desserts.

"Parm, the coconut milk is ready" phi Dech, the boy with a big body built constantly pouring jelly into the coconut milk. Today he mixed coconut cream with pandan flavour water to make the food smell delicious "this is the juice from pandan leaves which is squeezed" he move the dark green water to the side.

Parm looking at the pandan juice and couldn't helped laughing. He was remembered the big man who helped him to squeeze the pandan juice until it's all messed up.

"Today I will demonstrate to make a dessert that is usually eaten the afternoon. This dessert is called inthanin. It is a traditional Thai dessert which is now hard to find" Parm started the demonstration by pouring tapioca flour, pour in pandan juice and stir until it become light green. (* the original word is อินทนิล the roman is inthanil, read as inthanin)

"actually, there is no more ingredients needed, but the most difficult thing is to stir the flour until it's cooked, because it will take a long time" once the flour mixed well with the water, then he slowly pour it into a brass pan. He stirred the flour softly. The fragrance of the pandan leaves is so delicious that made the club members rub their stomach hardly.

From an opaque liquid powder which was easily stirred, it starts to clot and then turn into a transparent, viscous green dough. (*adonannya kek cenil kalo di Yogya didaerah lain apa sih yak? ... for those who don't understand this translator's note forget it, I just writing a similar food from Indonesia)

When the dough becomes transparent, put down the fire and add sugar" he said while put the sugar in and stir it until all the sugar dissolved and mixed with the dough. "After finish, lift the dough and place it in ice. The dough will cool down and become hard" he move the dough and wait it to cool. While waiting the dough to be cold, he prepare a small plastic cup and scoop the fragrant coconut milk into the cup.

"Scoop into a small pieces, just one scoop size" he wash his hand thoroughly and then cut the soft viscous dough with his fingertip. Then he put the dough into the coconut milk which has already prepared one by one.

"Add a little young coconut and then put some ice will be very delicious la khrab"

Phi Dech scoop the ice into the cup before distributing it to everyone to taste. The fragrance of the pandan leaves along with the sweet taste is so tempting the people who were just eat it for the first time. The dough and the young coconut is so soft almost no need to chew them. Many people raised their hands to ask for more until all the dessert is gone.

All the cup of the dessert are gone. After the end of the demonstration and let everyone rest, Parm sit down to open his notebook, thinking about what he will demonstrate next week. Being able to make desserts and the club activities make him more focus to himself and start asking about his own feeling.

For almost 3 months phi Dean has never showing up. But he sent message everyday asking general things such as eating, sleeping, or how is him. Phi Dean is still phi Dean even though he give space to think about himself. Pham himself always responding to his message every day, sometimes sending a picture of the dessert to him.