Abstract:
Local wisdom food is important since it reflects the lifestyle, culture and can be developed into a tourism product. Nowadays, a community still faces food inheritanceุproblems ุthat ุmayุ resultุ in ุtheุ lossุ ofุ theุ communitys ุ foodุ wisdom.ุ This research is phenomenological qualitative research. The purposes were to study the context of local wisdom food in Kudi Chin community, to record local wisdom food recipes in Kudi Chin community, and to develop local wisdom food sets in Kudi Chin community. The informants in in-depth interviews were 18 people of the Portuguese Vietnamese-Thai descent. The informants in focus group discussions were 18 people of the Portuguese Vietnamese-Thai descent, government personnel, entrepreneurs in the community and tourists. The research instruments were a survey, an in-depth interview, a recipe recording form and an assessment form. The data was collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and evaluation of the suitability of food sets. The collected data was analyzed using essence analysis.
The results of the research showed as follows. 1) Local wisdom food of Kudi Chin community included a total of 53 names collected for culinary culture, food culture, cooking equipment culture. It was also found that at present, there was the cooking wisdom of various lineages. People still ate traditional foods and some families changed according to the times. Furthermore, some families used tools made from brass and wood to cook food which is like the past. 2) There were 21 recipes of local wisdom food from three lineages, including 12 recipes from the Portuguese, 4 recipes from the Vietnamese and 5 recipes from the Thai. 3) The developed wisdom food include 8 sets with the suitability evaluation results at a high level. It was recommended in this research that activities to transfer local cooking knowledge to the new generation shall be organized, the local wisdom food shall be publicized to support tourism through various channels and activities to create food experiences for tourists shall be organized to increase income for the community.