Food
I have been here almost a month and I still love Thai food. I will never get sick of it. I rarely miss food from home. I was thinking about it today and I think that I miss cheese a little. There is no cheese here. And I'm scared to try the pizza here because I think the cheese will be disgusting.
Thai people eat Thai food for every meal and late night snack. I do not like Thai food for breakfast. Every morning I bring my own peanut butter to breakfast and the cook makes me two pieces of toast and green tea. Today I bought a second jar of peanut butter and a box of raisin bran (this entailed a bus ride and a moto-cab ride and then back again to get to the big Tescos).
It took me a good week to realize that the cafeteria food (that I eat at lunch) is not good Thai food. I usually snack before dinner. I either buy a 3-pack of Oreos, a pack of Werthers or meat-on-a-stick. At the end of the school day a bunch of street vendors wait outside the school. The meat-on-a-stick vendor is the best. I usually get two chicken wings (on a stick) and pork with hot pepper and pineapple (on a stick).
Dinner is the best. I go and meet Brad and friends at the basketball court and we moto over to the market. This is usually about 8. The sun sets about 7. The "market" is actually what I would call an open air food court. There is an actual market that is much more market-like than what we call the market. Anyway, it is a large, high ceilinged structure with industrial fans keeping us cool. Everything is spotless and flourescent-lighted. We sit on plastic stools at a stainless steel table. There are about 30 vendors all selling food. We always sit next to the candy-and-drink lady. (I teach one of her two sons. They are both very fat and the one that I teach is a trouble-maker.) We get a big bottle of Pepsi and everyone gets a glass with crushed ice.
The food is so good. I have my favourite dishes which I can't pronounce but I point to the main ingrediant and communicate that way (or get Tam to do it). I've had phases of meals. I started out eating a fried rice dish. It comes with mango (a bitter shavings from a hard non-juicy mango), sweet pork and egg which you stir up together (Khao gluck ga pi). Then I became obsessed with some red curry with meat and basil leaves (Pad Kraprao). Then I ate Brad's favourite meal which is mussels and fried rice flour and sprouts (I got very sick and thought that it was a bad mussel but it might have just been some weird fruit I ate). Just this week I discovered a Chinese meal of fried noodles and other stuff (Pad see eew). On top you sprinkle sugar and it's not spicy. (All of the names come from Tam. Last night at dinner I got him to transcribe these foods.) Every meal costs 20 baht (30 baht = $1CDN). For 5 more baht you can add a fried egg or a few prawns. The pop usually costs about 20 baht. It is 1 baht for the glass with ice.
I have been here almost a month and I still love Thai food. I will never get sick of it. I rarely miss food from home. I was thinking about it today and I think that I miss cheese a little. There is no cheese here. And I'm scared to try the pizza here because I think the cheese will be disgusting.
Thai people eat Thai food for every meal and late night snack. I do not like Thai food for breakfast. Every morning I bring my own peanut butter to breakfast and the cook makes me two pieces of toast and green tea. Today I bought a second jar of peanut butter and a box of raisin bran (this entailed a bus ride and a moto-cab ride and then back again to get to the big Tescos).
It took me a good week to realize that the cafeteria food (that I eat at lunch) is not good Thai food. I usually snack before dinner. I either buy a 3-pack of Oreos, a pack of Werthers or meat-on-a-stick. At the end of the school day a bunch of street vendors wait outside the school. The meat-on-a-stick vendor is the best. I usually get two chicken wings (on a stick) and pork with hot pepper and pineapple (on a stick).
Dinner is the best. I go and meet Brad and friends at the basketball court and we moto over to the market. This is usually about 8. The sun sets about 7. The "market" is actually what I would call an open air food court. There is an actual market that is much more market-like than what we call the market. Anyway, it is a large, high ceilinged structure with industrial fans keeping us cool. Everything is spotless and flourescent-lighted. We sit on plastic stools at a stainless steel table. There are about 30 vendors all selling food. We always sit next to the candy-and-drink lady. (I teach one of her two sons. They are both very fat and the one that I teach is a trouble-maker.) We get a big bottle of Pepsi and everyone gets a glass with crushed ice.
The food is so good. I have my favourite dishes which I can't pronounce but I point to the main ingrediant and communicate that way (or get Tam to do it). I've had phases of meals. I started out eating a fried rice dish. It comes with mango (a bitter shavings from a hard non-juicy mango), sweet pork and egg which you stir up together (Khao gluck ga pi). Then I became obsessed with some red curry with meat and basil leaves (Pad Kraprao). Then I ate Brad's favourite meal which is mussels and fried rice flour and sprouts (I got very sick and thought that it was a bad mussel but it might have just been some weird fruit I ate). Just this week I discovered a Chinese meal of fried noodles and other stuff (Pad see eew). On top you sprinkle sugar and it's not spicy. (All of the names come from Tam. Last night at dinner I got him to transcribe these foods.) Every meal costs 20 baht (30 baht = $1CDN). For 5 more baht you can add a fried egg or a few prawns. The pop usually costs about 20 baht. It is 1 baht for the glass with ice.
1 Comments:
You're making me hungry!... I love thai food too, but i've only had the canadian kind.... angie...
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