Exploits
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You are legend?
It’s the Friday night before a four day weekend, and the streets of Bangkok are uncrowded. It feels like a dream. I’ve come back from our trip to Pattaya with my coworkers, Teera and Kwang, in their Almera. We’ve just checked into a hotel on Rachada soi 20, and will go out exploring the empty city in a while. I’m looking forward to not feeling crowded in this city for once.
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Let’s play a game…
Its called the Three Dollar or Less Beer Bonanza (Eastern European Edition): How many of these beers do you know? How many can you try while packing suitcases last minute?
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Crystal Cove, CA
Even in the land of endless beaches, this is a special one.
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America Has Fish Sauce
But there are so many basic types and specific variants, as well as imported and domestically produced brands, it’s mind-boggling. Referring to any specific type as just “fish sauce” could be quite disastrous, depending on the context (who put pla dak in the nam pla?). Bonus shot: Ultra dope station wagon in the Costco parking lot.
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Family Portrait
At a pond full of turtles and one giant carp.
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Saturday Shopping
Family bike trip lol.
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I found a dinosaur
I found this on the street just in front of our house last week. Either it got run over during the rainstorm the night before, or the cats claimed another victim.
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The Best Braised Pork Leg in Issan
Google review of Panom Rung Restaurant by Justin Yoshida https://goo.gl/maps/cShnNWMJMcu Staring locals. Scary truckers in the dark, broken parking lot… Raw chili and garlic in a dirty center bowl. Unapologetically fatty pork. Best of all, it’s sandwiched between a second rank gas station restroom and minimart. Need I say more? It’s an epic hole in the wall.
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Frangipani
On our recent trip to Surin Province.
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Jet lag, Brain lag, everywhere a lag lag
We just got back from an epic trip back home to the states where I officiated my baby sister’s wedding, reunited with whole gaggle of relatives (some of whom I hadn’t seen for decades), and took the kids to Disneyland for their first time (thanks dad and Vangie!) the day before we left. It was basically a day and a half by planes and a bus (including a 1.5 hour stopover in Incheon and a brief respite in the Lad Prao area of Bangkok at our relatives’ place), and jet lag/exhaustion has hit all of us hard. I nearly went out of my mind for the past couple hours by accidentally enabling this…
