bangkok bites
July 1st, 2009 by Lawrence David
bangkok is like the dollar store for dinner: pad thai, pad see yu, noodle soup, or duck and rice — a plate of it will invariably run you about $1 on the street. food carts are shipwrecked all over the sidewalks in our neighborhood and each has its own set of dishes. it’s like the entire city is an enormous outdoor dim-sum. if you like asian food, this place is heaven.
last friday, i thought i’d try and reach food nirvana with some thai friends chris and i made at (where else?) a local restaurant.
oil, mei and me
we took a cab to chinatown, the delicious love-child of las vegas and a chinese restaurant.
chinatown cab
bangkok chinatown
i ate some weird things that night:
- pig tongue
- chicken lung
- pig blood patties
- pig gut
- grasshopper
- fish intestine
- gingko and mushroom ice sou
mushroom and ginkgo dessert
durian carver
fried cockroach, mealworms, and grasshoppers
street squid
oddly enough, it wasn’t this night that gave me a case of the bangkok bathroom blues. instead, chris and i both fell ill after eating some accursed thai yogurt from a local supermarket. that’s what we get for eating indoors!
Yum yum. What’s your take on Durian? Delicacy or disgusting?
The first photo of yourself is amazing.
I don’t find the smell to be bad at all. I’m ambivalent on the taste — I’m not in love, but I’d eat it if someone put it in front of me!
Fried grasshoppers are not bad. My mom cracked open a durian last night. I can still smell it. Have you had dragonscales yet?
No, what are dragonscales?!
the cockroaches are actually waterbugs i think
One Year Later…
Dragonscales are like oversized kiwis from a cactus like plant. Well I call them dragonscales… but another name is pitaya. Go figure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitaya
I’m not looking forward to moving back and not seeing you there.