Photos – Page 45 – C. Buddha's Hasty Musings

Thai Spirit House on Top of a House

In Thai they are called san phra phum. Never seen one on top of a house before.

Taken down the street from Max & Mina’s great grandmother’s house in Sankha, Surin Province, Thailand.

Mina and a Monkey

This monkey liked yardlong beans more than bananas.

@Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Chonburi, Thailand

Nice Toilet Kit (Dusit Princess Korat)

We rockin rock glasses, foo!

We leverage Agoda points gained by using our account for official trips, and can stay at all but the most expensive hotels in Thailand for very reasonable amounts.

Link to the Dusit Princess Korat

Korat Street Art

Some good, some not so good.

The first two seem to have been walls for a building some time in the recent past, but now just serve to host art and demarcate the boundary of this lot.

Lego Time @Highway Rest Stop 90km from Korat

I don’t know the name of the town because I couldn’t be bothered to look at my phone’s location. However, it’s only fair to note that this is the first fueling station I’ve ever seen to have two 7-11s – one for the petrol station and another, newer one for the LPG filling station; they were about 120 meters apart across the huge parking lot.

Rainbow on the Bypass (Maha Sarakham)

A fortuitous sign right at the start of our journey…

Mina pimping new Jordans @Mag Shop, Maha Sarakham

I don’t know why she likes five stars and six stars so much; it must be a phase… She will undoubtedly mature to a stage where she realizes that ten or twelve spokes are where it’s at, I’m sure.

Maha Sarakham Restaurant Review – Little Tokyo

Went to a new Japanese restaurant opening today with Tong. It wasn’t crowded at all, and my first impression was bad because it reeked of fresh paint inside.

I don’t want to go into much detail, because we only had a few dishes, but what we did have was enough to lure me back again to try some other things.

The interior is neatly if unimaginatively decorated,and the coolers work well.

"Little Ramen" - actually kinda full-sized and with decent broth and good toppings, but the noodles were way overcooked. 5/10. — “Little Ramen” – actually kinda full-sized and with decent broth and good toppings, but the noodles were way overcooked. 5/10.

Katsu and Omurice - Bleh katsu and not really omurice, but tasty and filling for 49 baht. 7/10. — Katsu and Omurice – Bleh katsu and not really omurice, but tasty and filling for 49 baht. 7/10.

Tom Yum Gyoza - the best dish we had by far. 8/10. — Tom Yam Gyoza – the best dish we had by far. 8/10.

Front view of the restaurant; fucking awesome reflection.

Overall, I give this place a 6/10 (so far) – worth going to check out. The food had problems, but hopefully they will be ironed out soon.

Strengths: Reasonably priced (much cheaper than Japanese restaurants in Sermthai Complex). Has at least a couple strong dishes; soup gyoza is pretty good (tried two dishes with it).

Weaknesses: Smells of paint. Bad noodles (unforgivable for Japanese ramen). Bad sushi (not pictured above). Not much parking. Iced green tea is tooth-dissolvingly sweet. Hot tea is cheap and flavorless.

The place is located next to the copy shop on the corner of Highway 208 and Nakorn Sawan Soi 18 (the street that goes down to N&N 2 and Med Side) next to the copy shop.

http://goo.gl/maps/4E53T

Visiting Max and Mina’s Great Grandmother

Max and Mina’s Great Grandmother celebrated her 90th birthday in Surin yesterday, and we attended. It was hot, hot, hot. But everybody had a good time catching up with distant relatives and whatnot, and our family’s road trips are always epic.

Mina’s first catch

The other day, I dug up a single earthworm from our sun-dried garden and tied a simple bobber rig onto a spinning rod to give Max and Mina a chance to catch something in the pond across our street. Max got a couple nibbles and then got half the worm stolen, so it was time to re-bait and let Mina have a chance. she hooked up in less than a minute and brought in another bronze featherback, slightly smaller than the one we had before.

Max and Mina wanted to keep him in their tank, since the last fish besides an algae eater we had, a freshwater angelfish bought at a local night market, died after lasting a good few months. As before, the featherback got into it with Mr. Pleco, and proceeded to get his ass kicked around the tank until I got fed up and threw him back into the pond. Nobody missed him. Some fish are just disagreeable.