For me Bangkok is kind of like a backyard. I have probably spent about a year and a half in the number of days staying here and wandering around not only as a tourist but also for business so it’s a very familiar place. The reason I decided to spend about a week here was for food. There are different varieties of food. I like to try out, especially the IISAN (NORTHEASTERN) and Chinese food in the old Chinatown area. This time I found a couple new interesting places. Near the Chulalongkon university area. There are quite a few restaurants that serve the student population so are very inexpensive and the food is so far very good. That’s where some former student students took me for IISAN food. in the Chinatown area. There was a restaurant I went to several times which was pretty good, but the restaurant has become fairly dirty and a number of rats running around. But then again that’s the very old area with old buildings and there is a lot of grease and maybe not well managed leftovers which provide good nourishment for the rats. But being an old part of the city it’s an animal you just kind of hope isn’t caught. He could very well wind up on somebody’s dinner plate somewhere.
This is an old cute phrase used in Thailand, Thai English, mostly on T-shirts years ago. This sign was in one of the large shopping malls in the Siloam areaActually, once I landed, I wanted to have something really simple so I went to a nearby shopping center and found a Korean restaurant which surprisingly had really excellent kimchi, Real Korean style. anyway I ordered just that and some rice. The waitress was very kind for some unknown reason, maybe because I was using very polite Thai language, and she brought me extra kimchi for free. But I couldn’t eat it all so she put it in a little box for me to take back to the hotel. This was the Korean restaurant. As you can see, it has a very catchy marketing phrase.Walking through the university restaurant area I took a photo for a friend of the MOO GROP ( deep fried pork), his favorite, and the lady posed for me.OK it’s very early in this post, but I’m taking a little break by showing you a dog certificate which is required in one area of Spain, Valencia, to take the pet dogs on the local transport. Evidently it is not easy to take pets around Spain on public transport. They are not as welcome as they are in France.This was our meal there at the IISAN restaurant comprising a lot of pork but done in a way which is very delicious along with the sticky rice which is really a Lao food. But this area called IISAN is made up of Lao people, not Thai. And many of the people there still speak a variation of Lao which is slightly different than Thai. This is what the area looks likeSome local artwork The name of a local shopping building I just like the architectural and lighting style on this building. It kind of reminds me of the French Quarter in New OrleansWhen you visit Thailand, you will find the very interesting and often cute uses of the English language in shops and businesses. This was a very nice coffee shop where I stopped a couple times. I really like the sign. It’s cute. This roast duck was tasty but not the best I’ve had. I would rank it seven out of 10, definitely not Michelin star quality. But they promote they are a Michelin star restaurant but if you check it out, it’s for their restaurant in Hong Kong not this one. Anyway I love Hong Kong style food so this place is acceptable.ScreenshotAnd guess who showed up near the hotel I prefer this Lao beer to Thai beerThis I guess is another break. This stain remover I found in Japan is in a very tiny bottle, which is good for traveling. You just dab it on the spot, they give you a number of dabbing pads to soak up the stain which you can use or not use and then you put it in the wash. It works extremely well. And, it’s small and good for packing. I think this is the mustard leaf they’re using here and this pickling is just a little bit sweet for me, but I like the mustard leaf, especially if it’s the sour pickling sauceAt the Chinese restaurant, the eggrolls were pretty good. This is a huge contrast to traveling in the UK and the isles Next to The UK. look at the varieties of sauces. This is the kind of place I like to eat. Brown sauce is not sufficient for much of anything. And in fact, I had forgotten what it tasted like so I used it once over four months and never used it again, bringing my own sauces with me which I bought in the store.OK, well in the MBK complex they had this restaurant sign which is cute.And this is a very imaginative twist of a phrase which I hope you can get I think this all started out about 60 years ago, but it has a vault into a kind of popular drink. It seems. I don’t drink it because it has way too much sugarI went to visit friends in Prachuap kirikan and this is their dog TANGMOO (watermelon) who slept outside my door every night and greeted me in the morning. She was my good buddyThey can Bangkok you can see this fellow doing some welding without proper protection. Where there are no inspectors around, in Small projects and local fixes you will see this kind of safety. Walking around the supermarket. This pet food is doing what? Is it suggesting this dog is a carnivore? Nowadays spicy chicken seems to be a big popular Korean offering outside of Korea. 50 years ago I never saw anything like this and probably was not even available in Korea or Japan in Korean restaurants. But it’s now a big thing so I stopped in and for a very reasonable price I ordered some chicken, hoping it would be a small but reasonable portion. It turned out to be a huge portion and the sauce was a little bit too sweet for me. I should’ve ordered something more spicy. You see the kimchi on the side, which is something I used to eat every day in Japan to keep my stomach in good shape After the chicken I tried Swensens ain’t got this, which was very deliciousThis was the bike model I had in Koh Chang during the Covid lockdown. But I had Red instead of this colorat the ATM I got some brand new ฿100 Notes with the image of the current King when he was very young
Prachuap is a cute little city with a few good restaurants and nice hills and beaches to view. The beaches are not really the cleanest in Thailand so swimming should be done in another area of Thailand but the town is fun for a few days and not overcrowded and developed like Hua Hin which has really been over populated and cementified. So try Enjoying Prachuap Thailand. I have friends who live here, having worked in the Scuba Diving business in Phuket for 8 years long ago. That’s why I come back to Prachuap.
The mangrove forest was destroyed so there is this receding beach on a nice north-point overlook.Sunan is contemplating the universe.They got their Pakistan wall covering up in the bungalow.A girl taking a video of the hundreds of crabs running around on the former mangrove forestThe house. In Thailand, because it rains so much, it’s a good idea to have your house elevated. Look at the nice garden Sunan created from nothing.Tangmoo (watermelon) wants a tummy rubAlain preparing the new electric motorcycle. It works well except for a few overly cheapened items.Coffee at a nice coffee shop that will last a few months or a year and close due to lack of customers. That’s a typical business deficit in Thailand, good ideas in the wrong place and for a much too small population.The sign is very cute, i like it.When your ordered item is prepared this beeper will let you know. Going around to various restaurants in Thailand this trip I found these devices had exactly the same wording on the back….interesting. I didn’t expect Yamazaki (famous Japanese bread company) to be here in Thailand, much less in Hua Hin, but here it is. The company used to make only Japanese style bread, soft and squishy, but now makes very good quality French style products. I was pleasantly surprised.
Waghor Aquarium
Funny looking fishEel fish?They were trying to communicate with me.Hiding cuttlefishStonefish. Do not touch, you will suffer horribly and may not make it to your next meal.I didn’t figure out what this stringy blob was. Do you know what it is?This was the most popular attraction in the whole aquarium. Colorful TangsThe place was overrun with students. We had to avoid them rushing past us here and there.A visitor to the house every morning. This young bird is quite beautiful.I was surprised the moon looks so much like Earth.,Renaming this planet alsoAnyone want to take part in renaming the moon? For now it has no name.From a beautiful birdTangmoo, my new darling buddy.
On my last jaunt through Thailand I stopped in Prachuap Kirikan to visit my good friends Alain and Sunan. They now have full solar power in the main house. The guest bungaloo is not yet a priority for solar adaptation. They have a new dog, a stray that stays due to the abundance of food from her generous hosts.
The new dog.Stopped for a few days in Vientiane, Laos to visit with Pasan. I love the store sinage.Good thing it doesn’t start smoking.A pretty good pizzaGood marketing.Food stalls where you can also find sushi sitting out in the hot sunKids waiting to get a good photo of the arriving trainSunan getting ready to conquer the lunch menuThe garden Sunan created out of a vacant piece of landEven palm treesAnimals laying eggsAt the Bangkok hotel looking at aquaman prepared to put out an underwater fireIn Vientiane, proof the Emerald Buddha at Wat Phra Keow was stolen from the main temple in Laos. Thai people are fed a false truth about this Buddhist figure.
By my bungalow, there are trees and electric wires for this truck to avoid. a nice hilltop view cafe on Koh Chang Don Maeung airport with its literal “centerpiece” golf course which belongs to the military. Golfers have to wait to cross for planes headed to runways Excellent qualityNaval trainees with their land life jackets, over 50 of them walking the main streetMy friends were surprised I could recommend an excellent wine. I finally got some respectA local taxi actually it belongs to Gee so she can transport coffee drinks and her grand daughter
A Guinness with a cigar from Cuba. The best thing to do in Pattaya. My first hamburger in many years. It was pretty good. One of my favorites, grilled waterfall pork (NAMTOK MOO) with sticky rice.Having some grilled duck with noodles at the airport Some pork with noodles in a soup it’s fairly tasty and not The main international airport in Bangkok has completed its center art piece I think there is a spelling mistake. It should be “FEMEAL”Just a photo to keep your attention Be careful passing his truck. Several times I thought it was going to fall over Good to know I didn’t stop in to see if the haircut was really free A nice cappuccino design Beautiful flowers at the resort A view of the fishing village on Koh Kood Below you will see the original Honda Giorno. They have a new version out this year which is so similar to a Vespa The license plate is from some island of the host of China Was Goldfinger here? Thang you too. Papa makes good breadThe international bocce crowd; Italy, England, Laos and a confused nationalityCORNELL COLLEGE colors What is a Monk living in my apartment? In Japan, near where I used to live, beautiful tricycle motorcycles from this shop Playing tennis at night in TokyoThief wants to be the first to get any snacks in the morning Some good Lao food Getting home, one dog begging for food and the other two guarding to keep other dogs away from potential snacks It seems the use of chemicals produces this green and yellow hybrid bunch A special Poké bowl presentation The shark is still there A Poké bowl falafel A very tasty chicken and coconut soup Who says dogs can’t do paddle boarding This cat from White Elephant fancy himself a leopard
At Mauro’s Babylon Italian restaurant on Koh Chang Falafel dish at Poke Bowl. Can’t say it is very Hawaiian but it is good foodA nice café desertSweden and the U.S. at one of our usual hauntsChicken rice (KAO MAN GAI) in Vientiane Lao style “sushi” in a hot open market, not my idea of sushi for sure (Vientiane)small lunch, spring rollgee at her coffee stand before moving back to her home town in Surinin the city (SFO) we used to have Mr. Muso’s cookies like this one in my cappuccino in Laos, pineapple picked the day before. Soooo sweet delicious Indian food in Lungprabang Cooking for Gee’s return home party. We will miss her. In Pakse, Laos, a remarkably delicious pizza lunchLaab (spicy minced pork), tam som (papaya pok pok), and dried, fried beef in Vang Vieng, Laos
This photo speaks for itself A snake is taking its time to suffocate a Tokay gecko Koh Kood coffee shopKeeping fish for customers at the restaurant I think he’s trying to tell people he wants some food These leaves are good food for shrimp farmsClearwater at Koh KoodThis grilled gecko is the reason this electric plug was not working You could do almost anything to Ciccio but he would not move Theif likes her belly rubbedI wonder what they charge for This guy was hanging around for some reason No filter was used for this photo The guy in blue jumped onto the ferry as it was leaving the dock, hit one of the metal plates which dislodged and almost fell in the water A beginning driver Obviously an early PC adopter Where else would you use your phone but while riding your motorcycle Do all wheels on the back axle serves some purpose
This is proof I am lazy Right outside the bungalow A very nice Indonesian cigar Dancing girls at the local night market in Koh Chang Balloon bread and various dips at my friends Turkish restaurant, AlaTurka Another very nice Indonesian cigar Spelling Bea?A nice sunset on the island Very tasty bread from Flavio’s Italian restaurant One of the best Churchills I’ve ever had AI idea of me as an evil villain with a cat. Watch out James Bond! Is this what you would name your hotel? More proof I am lazy Move over Orlando Bloom. I have gotten younger Pasan made a very delicious long grilled fatty pork with vegetables A kind of Turkish pizza One of the best cigars I have ever had and, yes, it was made in Indonesia
