What To Eat in 8 Cities - all in a day

I kind of like being here in BKK with Momsie and Popsie. It's my chance to pretend I'm their only child, harhar!

The three of us went to Terminal 21 yesterday - for a photo shoot, what else? Oh yeah, and to have some late lunch too.

Terminal 21 has a food court on the San Francisco Pier area (5th level). It sells most Thai street foods in a sterile mall environment.

kway chap (sp?) - roasted pork, offal, boiled egg, and sheet noodles in pork broth

 

oyster orsuan - tiny oysters cooked in what feels like gawgaw mung bean sprouts and egg

 

I forgot what this is called but it is essentially boiled and fried pork skin - think unpuffed, soft, and tender chicharon

One word: meh.

Mas madumi, mas masarap. That's not to say street food is dirty (really, now?) but I do think the flavors are more alive and robust when you eat it in the grottier places. There's more culture in it, too.

The saviors of this meal went unphotographed: the slushies. Momsie had a berry-banana blend, Popsie had two(!) glasses of ma muang (mango) shake, while I had a guava-grape tomato-strawberry-carrot and God Knows What Else shake. It was gooooooood!

Tomorrow is another day of hitting the streets with my baht in one hand, and a camera in the other.

Market Day!

Because you can't take the market monster out of the Pinay, Popsie and I stepped out this morning to the nearest little market a couple of blocks from the condo.

It's the last day of Songkran so most establishments are closed but some stalls in the talaat were open.

If I were vegetarian, I'd love it here - the food choices are awesome and very affordable. Heck, I'm not vegetarian but I love it here!
 

Lovely vine-ripened tomatoes

 

Mushrooms for the fungophile

 

Mung bean sprouts, katuray flowers, and young corn

 

Sawtooth coriander, coriander/cilantro, parsley, and a bunch of other things I can't identify

 

Spices and dried herbs

 

khanom tweh (sp?) - made from rice flour, it is steamed in those tiny cups. It is a symphony of sweet and salty.

 

Unripe mangoes (40THB/kg), longan (80THB/kg), and giant makopa (wax or Java apple)

 

Mangosteen - 40THB/kg. I ate a whole kilo by myself this afternoon!

 

Rambutan (80THB/kg) so fresh I swear the green spikes were moving (hehehe)

 

Our veggie stash

 I also made a "healthy" omelette for breakfast.

 

Garlic, onion, organic eggs, diced tomato, thinly-sliced asparagus stems

 

Hello, breakfast

Don't be fooled, though... Popsie, Momsie, and I - we had some Bacon Spam with this omelette. =)

Pinoy Fiesta in foreign soil

When Pinoys get together, there are three things that are consistent in those gatherings - regardless of location. This is true even in foreign soil: karaoke, inuman (imbibing alcohol), and food.

Lots and lots of food.

To wit:

pansit bihon chock-full of sahog

 

sweet pork barbecue

 

calderobo - the bastard (and yummy) child of adobo and caldereta

  

lumpiang Shanghai - na wala naman sa Shanghai

There was also sinigang na ulo ng salmon at hipon. Or maybe I should have written HIPON. Do you agree?

 

Major major hipon! The orange thing, not the girl in white =P

There were also not-so-Pinoy stuff but I have no complaints. Everything was awesome!

apple and raisin crumble - so good!

 

grape tomato, basil, mozarella, and prosciutto bites - I had five of these. Not sorry!

 I also stuffed my face with five servings of my favorite Thai dessert: khao niew ma muang!

mango with sticky rice: sweet, salty, sticky, juicy, and extremely satisfying

I am SO glad I have six more days here in Bangkok. I will attack street food next... if only going out didn't mean getting wet and having to wash out chalk from my hair!