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petrified gecko
In the taillight of my coworker’s Ford Focus.
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estrellas
Mina said she wanted to eat Dora stars, so I made some starburguesas: Approved.
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Folding Lotus Blossoms
I never knew lotus flowers didn’t just look like that when they opened naturally…
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Elephant Delivery Service
These guys are from one of the ethnic villages in Surin where the government has granted them license to keep elephants. As elephants can eat hundreds of kilos of food every day and because there are simply too many to perform at the “elephant village” tourist attractions, many elephants are taken to towns across Thailand, especially the northeast, to walk the roads and beg for money for “food” – the handlers sell 3 baht bags of sugarcane or bananas for 20 baht to people along the way (people sitting outside of restaurants or pubs are popular targets). This practice has become so lucrative that we often hear of the villages…
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jamuru babies
Videos to follow.
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Thai Basil Stir Fry – Ground Pork with Fried Egg Edition
I can’t remember where this was, but damn they had nice silverware. The food must have been below the memorable line of greatness, but I’d go there again just to borrow some spoons.
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Innovative Product Names (Bad Asian Edition)
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Egg noodles with braised pork leg
Nirvana: Achieved. (@ Nong Khai, a couple forgotten streets down from the unremarkable riverside marketplace, across from a nondescript temple in a truly magical noodle shop)
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told you so
1. Google Maps is a killer app for Android and iOS (but the latter’s version will never be as good as the former’s) 2. Welcome to Maps on iOS6; all your base is belong to us —- I think Steve Jobs would have been too smart to play it this way. As much as he hated Android, I’m pretty sure he would have been embarrassed by Apple rolling out a weak counter to Google Maps waaay before it was ready.
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balls
