The end of August does not signal the end of the hot summer weather. But it does mean that the beach huts must shut down.
So that will mean no more take-outs from the perennially popular temporary Thai kitchens...
These are some of our favourites...
Kaeng khiao wan — green curry with chicken, eggplant, bamboo and piman pepper in coconut milk, with Thai basil and a good tingle of heat...
laab gai (spicy chicken "salad")...
tod man plaa/tod man gung (fish/prawn 'cakes'); and the fragrant pork sausage, packed with plenty of spice and rice and cellophane noodles...
This kind of food never tastes better than when you have sand between your toes.
My column on the Thai food stalls on the beach in Kamakura ran last summer in The Japan Times.
Our favourite of the four restaurants that run the kitchens here is Ban Phu Thai, which is based in Narita. I've always been tempted to make a stop-off there for a good spicy meal before flying out!
