Thai corn fritters

Last month I went to a festival celebrating Buddha's birthday. I'll admit it, I was there for the food. There was a wide array of vegetarian food stalls, and after I checked them all out, the thing that caught my eye was the stall offering Thai corn fritters. I love those things, so I lined up, money in hand, only to find that they had run out. Curses! All was not lost -- I ended up grabbing some delicious sesame balls filled with mung beans.

But Thai corn fritters are great, so I decided to make some. The thing is, once I mixed up the batter, it was kind of delicate (I put so much corn in that it would barely hold together), and the thought of forming individual fritters and trying to flip them without destroying them... well it seemed like way too much work. So my bright idea was to cook one enormous fritter, and -- success! We cut slices of this like a pizza, and had it with the traditional accompaniment of sweet chile sauce.