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Chonburi Bridge
The storm dragon chased us all the way over the bridge.
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Just when every day seemed to greet me with a smile…
My favorite singing voice of all time…
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Misushit?
This is probably the best Matsushita knockoff name, ever (combined with a retailer’s misspelling) – and that’s saying a lot since Matsushita and National brands were folded into Panasonic years ago. These trusted brand names live on in developing countries, even if new product lines do not. I’ve seen quite a few Matsushita, National, and Panasonic knockoff names (and that’s just a few from this electronics group), but the most often honored here and elsewhere is probably Mitsubishi, including the following permutations: Mitsuboshi:”Three hats” Mitsubashi: “Three bridges” Mizubashi: “Water bridge” Matsuboshi: “Pine hat” etc. “Mitsubishi” literally means “three water chestnuts,” but “-hishi” is what we call a diamond mark so it’s just…
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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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Moo Daeng (“Red Pork”)
The Thai variant of char siu is often too lean and served with overly sweet sauce… This place does it well, though.
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A Tale of Empty Plates
This week was quite an eventful one. We found possibly the best restaurant in Issan, Max threw up in a bubble room, and we had a couple exceptional meals. I wrote the post a couple weeks ago, but WordPress had a brainfart until today. Oh, well.
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Rogue One AKA Star Wars in Dubai
For me, this is the second or third best movie in the entire series, behind Empire Strikes Back and maybe A New Hope. Definitely better than Return of the Jedi. I really loved that Donnie Yen was in it, but kind of hated his mystical Tai Chi Yojimbo character (we get it, blind people’s other senses are finely attuned as hell, and Asians all have Jedi-like intuition except when driving ha fucking ha). And goddamn Star Wars weapons always piss me off – why does his sidekick with the belt-fed MG have to rack the slide like a goddamn Remington 870 after every shot at the end? Is it an…
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Red sauce
Prepping lunch for 20 tomorrow.
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The Sound of My 30s and 40s
Played by a PA band from Chaiyaphum with ever-changing members, on plastic chairs (of course): Khun Narin Band. Look them up, they’ll blow your mind.
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Living Yearbook
So we saw this driving down the street last week. It’s the end of term here, and this may be the new equivalent of signing yearbooks here.
