Sarim (dessert)
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Sarim (Thai: ซ่าหริ่ม, pronounced [sâːrìm]; or ซาหริ่ม, pronounced [sāːrìm]) is a Thai dessert. It consists of colourful (usually pink and green) thin noodles made from mung bean flour in coconut milk and syrup, served cold with crushed ice.[1] The dish is mentioned in the Kap He Chom Khrueang Khao Wan poem of King Rama II (r. 1809 – 1824), though back then it was seasoned with patchouli rather than served with ice.[2]
With the 2020 Thai protests, the term salim (สลิ่ม), derived from sarim, came to be used in a political sense to refer to ultra-royalist, pro-military conservatives. For more than a decade, Thai society had been divided between "Yellow shirts" (conservatives) and "Red shirts" (progressives).[3] Then, Yellow shirt leaders—seeking to distance themselves from their association with their government's often violent repression—recast their effort as a "multi-colored movement", a makeover more representative of the "silent majority". As sarim, the dessert, comes in many colours, the term was applied to the now multi-coloured Yellow shirts.[4][5]
References
- ^ Royal Society. พจนานุกรมฉบับราชบัณฑิตยสถาน (ออนไลน์) [Royal Institute Dictionary (online)] (in Thai). Office of the Royal Society. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ Roufs, Timothy G.; Roufs, Kathleen Smyth (2014). Sweet treats around the world : an encyclopedia of food and culture. p. 332. ISBN 9781610692212.
- ^ JI UNGPAKORN, GILES (2020-11-26). "The Return of Thailand's Democracy Movement". Jacobin. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ^ Ruiz, Todd (4 March 2020). "Explainer: How 'salim' went from Thai dessert to fashionable insult". Coconuts Bangkok. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ^ จุดติด-ไม่ติด : แฮชแท็กและการชุมนุมประท้วงของนิสิตนักศึกษาบอกอะไรเราบ้าง. เดอะโมเมนตัม. 26 ก.พ. 2563 (เข้าถึง 2 มี.ค. 2563) https://themomentum.co/students-protest-after-after-future-forward-party-disbanded/
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