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Oh my gac!
This majestic fruit is perhaps my favorite in the entire kingdom of Thailand: Not just because it’s reminiscent of a freshly-used morning star worthy of Chuck Norris, Jack Bauer,…
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Unknown Thai Melon
Pictured above from the upper left: An unknown Thai melon, a katon (aka kraton, kraton priya, krathon wild mangosteen, santol, or sandorica. Scientific names: Sandoricum koetjape, Sandoricum indicum, Sandoricum nervosum or Melia koetjape. Family Meliaceae,…
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Roscoe’s Chicken, Long Beach
Roscoe’s – approved by the Yoshida Clan. 5 thighs for $6 (take out only) cannot be beat. We tried the chicken, fries, and waffles, and ate them in a huge…
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Best rice snack ever
Stacks and stacks of it. Porn is a common nickname in Thailand.
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Crispy durian for lunch
Crispy as in slightly unripe. It was delicious.
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Favorite topping
Breakfast of champions: Char siu and crispy pork combo plate with two cloves of industrial strength stankbreath on top.
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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…
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Flaming Morning Glory
This is the best Thai street food video I’ve ever seen.
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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…
