Anasuya (my foodie wife) and Austin (my foodie pal) and I have wondered many times:
Since Thailand is home to so many buffalo, when will cheese-loving foreign and Thai consumers be able to purchase buffalo mozzarella?
Turns out, as a 2008 DPA story says, various Thai companies have been producing local cheeses for several years. But I’d never seen Thai buffalo mozzarella in stores.
To my great astonishment, Anasuya recently brought home the packages pictured above.
That’s right — it’s not buffalo mozzarella, but buffalo feta. I’ll take it.
Anasuya purchased the items at a central Bangkok outpost of the famed Aw Taw Kaw (Or Tor Kor) market.
I did a little poking around online, and I’d forgotten about this WSJ Scene Asia story last year about Thai buffalo feta.
The piece says that the Thai king’s Royal Project group has been tinkering with various buffalo products for around five years. And, the story notes:
Today, there are 24 female Mehsana water buffalo, an Indian breed named after the western district from which they come, and they produce six to eight kilograms of milk a day each. That is used to make the aforementioned feta, and yogurt and mozzarella — all branded under the name Bubalos.
Last year, sales of the water-buffalo milk products topped 500,000 Thai baht (US$16,229). At local markets, a 200-gram block of Bubalos feta costs 145 baht (US$5)
Indeed, we are now in possession of the Bubalos feta product. We haven’t tried it yet, but I have high hopes.
It’s nice to see an epicurean dream come to fruition.
3 replies on “Off Topic: Thai Buffalo Feta Cheese”
Is it good? I’ve seen it many a time, but have yet to try. Occasionally you can get their mozzarella, and a couple other companies are also making buffalo milk mozzarella in Thailand as well.
Yes, Anasuya reports it’s good! Still haven’t tried it myself, but will do so soon…
UPDATE: It’s excellent. I really like it.