Why strawberryfanta still flows into Thai spirithouses

I can't shake the feeling that Los Angeles is a city of the highest spiritual importance. Maybe I feel like this because I see from my car window. The estimated 15,953 religious organizations Always in the area U -Bahn. Or maybe it is the case that this has this tradition. I noticed that the divinity always appeared in the AITEs of Grosy shops.

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So imagine my simultaneous surprise and lack that I am known to the tradition of the Thai strawberry -Fanta, known as Fanta Nam Daeng, or “Fanta Red Water”, which was found in Spirit Houses. The small shrines – building outside the Thai restaurants, cafes, shops, houses and parks – honor the assertion of spirits on the country and give them a place to the apartment.

The red Fanta, almost always a spirit house offfering, flows free in Los Angeles when you consider that it is. Home of most Thai people outside of Thailand.

My clear “Why?” Is, I have a suitable queetic in view of the universities in the game. As always, the answer is almost easy.

In Thai culture, ghosts are accepted as a phi (ผี ผี ผี ผี) and believed. The list of spirits is long, each with their own physical attributes, epic folklore and methods of calling.

Similar to this earthly level, the way to the heart of a spirit through it is every stomach. The list of snack and drinks in Spirit Houses is almost as long as the list of ghosts itself. In the Spirit House outside the Silom Supermarkt on the Hollywood boulevard food coconut water, rice, fruit, fermented milk drink yakult and desserts, as are grown by the sidewalk below. But Red Fanta is the perning.

Pip Paganelli, a cashier in Thai Dessert Shop Banh Kanom Thai, gives me an explanation. “He says. The bubbling strawberry rectar has released.

He also determines that Red Fanta can be seen the line of the sick sweetness and is loved by spirits that are exactly. Most spirits have a sweet tooth and shake fruit, sticky rice and coconut cake.

Some have bay theories. “Red Soda is special for you, pray to the children's spirits,” tells me another employee of Banh Kanom Thai (who preferred to only indicate her first name).

“It is the spirit of a boy who died.

She speaks of Kuman Thong, a common budgetary deity that can be helpful to protect the house, help in school or or.

An answer to the advance question of “Who Fanta?” Is a lice fuzier and most similar. Coca-Cola, the drink that sells its products with Fanta in more THA 200 countries, did not answer inquiries about comments.

“It can be every red drink, but the red Fanta is the most common,” says Paganelli. “There are some of your office.

Paganelli refers to Phra Rahu, who is often portrayed as a huge black creature, Jaws, who are eagerly wrapped around a shining planet.

Although Buddhism is the leading religion in Thailand and through the city of Thai city the cultivation of spirit houses and the offers that actively come from the animism mix, which mixes with Brahmanism, which then gets into Buddhist beliefs. Spirits can offer protection for houses and companies, ensure a fertile year or to ensure the health of friends and loved onses – a sip of the champagne of fruit lemonades that smear these preparations.

I recorded the stuff of the stuff at Lex-C, which is known to many as Thai Costco. Looked elegantly stacked on Bangluck Market; And at Silom it was based on the regional Thai taste of Fanta “Green Cream”, which tastes of bananas and citrus fruits.

In Wat Thai, the massive Thai Bhuddist temple in North Hollywood, I went together on the lush red carpet to find a lack of the same shade. It was the case that I showed on the weekend -food court where a corner stand confuses icy cups of Hale's Blue Boy with milk or sparkling water. Hales, a Thai concentrated syrup, are available in several flavors, including red-tinted idiots or snake fruits. I said that this was the trick.

Apart from the belief system or sugar threshold, excursions to Thai food in LA should not be completed. In Los Angeles, the ingredients for cakes grow plenty and they may be right in front of them.