I read a story at Monsters and Critics about a water buffalo (khwai) dairy farm in Thailand. I never heard of this before. I know what buffalo mozzarella cheese is. Sometimes when I went out to dinner with coworkers in America they would order it. It’s not for me, that’s for sure, lian mak (very fatty). But it is very popular with some people.
I didn’t know the story behind buffalo mozzarella before reading that article. The cheese really is made from buffalo milk. It is richer than cow’s milk so makes a richer cheese. A certain kind of buffalo that comes from India is the favorite one for this because it produces a lot of milk.
Jump over to Thailand where we have a lot of water buffaloes that are mostly unemployed these days. Farmers used to use them for tractors but not so much anymore. A lady in Chachoengsao has started a water buffalo dairy farm where she is using milk from the water buffaloes to make cheese. She is cross breeding them with buffaloes from India to increase their milk production. And I guess she is becoming successfull selling the cheese product to places like Tops market. But the article says she is having trouble selling buffalo milk because Thai people think drinking it will make them stupid like a buffalo.
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