My experience with the food in Thailand is fantastic so far. I haven't been incredibly adventurous but I have been eating from the street-stands and the resteraunts. I'll admit that I've been grabbing mostly fried stuff rather than the pre-sliced up fruit which might have been sitting there for hours but I'm just not that brave (or stupid) ;-)
The stand-out food experiences both involve banana's. There are street vendors which will fry up pancakes stuffed with banana right in front of you. Slice it up on a little plate and then drizzle sweetened condensed milk (I think) on top of it. You eat it with a little tooth pick while you wander around. It actually makes people stop trying to sell you things... actually that's not true. Nothing stops them trying to sell you things :-)
And yesterday I caught a taxi from KhoaSan road to the airport (only B280). I was a little worried at first because we only moved a kilometer in the first halfhour (Did I mention that the traffic in Bangkok makes Sydney look like a country town). Anyway when we got caught in traffic again a little later the taxi driver flagged down a vendor who was wandering through traffic selling battered fried banana slices and we shared them and I briefly knew the Thai word for banana!
Fried banana slices - Highly Recommended!
All this writing about food has made me hungry. So I think it's dinner time again and just coincidentally I spotted this great restaraunt right near my guest house...
Cheers till later.
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That's cool man. Take pics of your plate of food so we can see. Upload lots of pics of various stuff.
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