Mook's Hill Tribe Crafts and Tours

The tradition of tying the wrists is a long-standing ritual and is held every year for the Karen tribe's belief from the past that everything has its own spirit. Tying the wrists represents bringing the spirit of the family back to the owner, so parents have tied their childrens' wrists to bring blessings and encouragement to the children and reinforce the tradition of tying the wrists as a custom into the future. To love family, know gratitude and respect parents.
The elders preserve cultural traditions by a ceremony like this…
It starts with the parents bringing in baskets of things such as clothes, bags, turbans, liquor, boiled rice and two chickens, which were a male hen and a female hen. They go to the doorway of the house, then the father knocks on the head of the stairs and prays for the holy things.
When the cooking is done, the food is placed on the khantoke (small eating table). The food on the khantoke consists of rice, chicken curry, Khao Bae, rice porridge, boiled glutinous rice and 1 cup of liquor, and cotton thread that is approximately 13-15 inches long (length equal to the number of members of the family).
The parents perform the ceremony by bringing wooden sticks to knock on the khantoke. They call the spirit of children to come back together with the family, then the parents begin to tie the wrists to the children.
Everyone summons the spirit of that offspring to reunite with the owner, then the parents raise a glass of wine in prayer. May the holy things protect and keep your children safe from evil, and bless good things to the family including easy livelihood, growing good crops.
After which, the whole family will share the glass of wine and have the meal on the khantoke together, to complete the ceremony.

Khao pook is made by pounding sticky rice to a homogeneous consistency. Sprinkling sesame in the khao pook makes it smell good and prevents it from sticking to the mortar and pestle.
The khao pook is used in ceremonial cooking. This includes Rink Kwan (soul calling) ritual and the arm tying tradition of the Karen tribe.

Karen life style

pumpkin :) pigs favorite food

Karen life style

our food for dinner,Karen style.
แกงมะเขือใส่นกจ้า.

Herbs collected

Curry paste from herbs collected in our garden.

cooking catfish in a bamboo tube

หลามปลาดุกในกระบอกไม้ไผ่ใส่เครื่องปรุงสมุนไพร หอมกลิ่นไม้ไผ่และสมุนไพร
cooking catfish in a bamboo tube

Family means you’re never alone

family is the best
Family means you’re never alone

Karen life style

Hello everyone, we're going to feed the pigs!

Karen Village Food - Pounded Sticky Rice in Mae Hong Son, Thailand!

ข้าวปุกงาดำ หรือภาษากะเหรี่ยงเรียกว่า เมโต่พิ กินกับนมข้นอร่อยทีเดียวเชียว This is Khaw puk with Black sesame,(Karen language called Meto Phi ) Thank you so much khun Mark for sharing the video :)

lifestyle

สวัสดีจ้าเพื่อนๆ เช้านี้ฝนตกทุกคนเลยไม่ได้ไปทำงานนอกบ้าน แต่ก็ยังมีงานอื่นให้เราทำนะ และ นั่งดื่มชา คุยกันตามประสา ความสุขกับชีวิตที่เรียบง่ายที่เราอยากให้ทุกคนมาเยือน Hello to all friends today we not go to work in the jungle because rainy day well we still work at home and spend time together just like simple happy life 🥰