Stacks and stacks of it.
Porn is a common nickname in Thailand.
Category: Food
Crispy durian for lunch
Crispy as in slightly unripe. It was delicious.
max daddy day
Tuesday was Max’s last day of school, and he’s not going to summer school since we’re visiting the US in a couple weeks, so he’s been hanging out with daddy. So far today we’ve gone to the playground at daddy’s university and eaten a big bag of deep fried duck wings.
explosion!
So we went out for a family dinner last night, to a place we used to go a lot for crusted garlic fish, but stopped visiting for no reason in particular. Mina was acting kind of funny, not scarfing down everything in sight as usual. Finally, she really stated acting up and did something that merited a spank on the bottom, so I put her over my lap and wound up for effect.
I knew something was wrong by the sound of impact: SCHLOP!!
Baby shit splattered all over my hand and a stinky mist expanded from the area of impact.
Mina looked at me in defiance.
Nam thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Max just shrugged at me.
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Of course, I already had shit on my hand so I had to change Mina’s poopie diaper as well.
Yesterday’s lunch
This is a highway rest stop outside of Bangkok we always stop at when headed to Rayong, Pattaya, Hua Hin, etc. It used to have just Thai food shops and a KFC, but it seems to be getting a lot more international now. I saw a Muslim restaurant and an “Indian fast food” place among others.
Favorite topping
Breakfast of champions: Char siu and crispy pork combo plate with two cloves of industrial strength stankbreath on top.
Fresh honey
Yesterday I bought some fresh honey at a friend’s house. I have different samples from roadside stands all over Thailand; they’re sold in recycled whiskey bottles. The prices generally range from 150 to 200 baht per bottle. Yesterday was the cheapest I’ve seen it in a long time, 120 baht.
Update: Yes, the seller is filtering out debris and drowned bees out with a fish net.
Flaming Morning Glory
This is the best Thai street food video I’ve ever seen.
Perfect Chicken Pot Pie
As perfect as it gets for NE Thailand, at least:
It only tasted about half as good as it looked, which was still pretty good. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize that the plate was flipped around the wrong way until after I took the photo. On the positive side, I’m pretty happy with the quality of the camera on my Desire HD. It pretty much replaces a pocket camera, not that I ever carried one regularly.
Aegle marmelos
This is a bael or bael fruit AKA Bengal quince, wood apple, stone apple or seer phael (head-fruit). In Thai it’s known as matum.
In Thailand, bael is usually found in the form of dried slices, which are reconstituted in water to make juice. Our housekeeper brought over a few from her tree and I was surprised at how hard and heavy they were. We did as she said and boiled them, but then accidentally left them out on a hot night and the next day, they had fermented in the shell and burst, oozing a heavy syrup onto our counters. I threw them into the pond out front as an offering to Shiva, although he seems to favor the leaves instead of the fruit.