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yong wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:23 pm

Gator wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:23 pmOne of my favorite Thai dishes. Where in BKK was this?

Its inside a weekend traditional market open only Sat and Sun

Location - https://goo.gl/maps/9dGNyuxgS7sLctTS6

Thanks, Yong!

Craving for one of Singapore's favourite dish laksa while living overseas? Thanks to Prima ready to cook, no problem at all.

Laksa dinner tonight


Yummy

Dinner alone at a Chinese restaurant in Bangkok simple 2 dishes



Fish maw fry with crab meat, mushrooms and eggs


The soup

Simple, healthy, clean and filling lunch at a countryside shop

1. Krapow moosaab rice (Thai basil pork rice with egg) = $1.45
2. Yam pla kapong (sardines with Thai herb salad) = $1.90
3. Bottle of water = $0.35
Inexpensive $3.70



The meal


Yam pla kapong


Krapow moo saab

When one is on the road as a travelling salesman from town to town, simple food is all one can find most of the time, nothing fanciful. But then its always the simple food that makes one feel good and fulfilling, like comfort food. However each country, society, culture has its own comfort food. For me here a bowl of hot boiled rice anytime is always comforting.

The food stall by the highway


Today having simple boiled rice and an omelette


Thai omelette is always fluffy and crispy on the outside


Soft and moist inside (today's omelette is stuffed with minced pork)


All these for 50 baht or US$1.60

Today is the dragon boat festival and one of the highlights is to eat rice dumplings.

Heres an excerpt about this festival from http://dumplingfestival.weebly.com/history.html

The Origin

The Dumpling Festival has a legend behind it. The story goes like this… …

Once upon a time, there was a Chinese patriotic poet by the name of "Qu Yuan" who serve the emperor in Chu Kingdom in ancient China. He was a good minister and was well loved by the people. However, bad evil court officials were jealous of Qu Yuan's abilities and they successfully influenced the weak-minded emperor to dismiss and exile him.

The Tragedy

Feeling disheartened and angry, Qu Yuan tied himself to a rock and jumped into the Mi Luo river in Hunan province in order to protest against injustice and corruption. When the people get to know of his death, they rowed their boats to the river to look for his body. When they failed to find his body, they started beating their drums and making loud noises nearby the river hoping to scare the fishes and sea creatures away so that they will not feed on his body. Others started making rice dumplings to throw into the river believing that the sea creatures and fishes will eat their dumplings instead of Qu Yuan's body. It might be a naive belief, but the emotions were heartfelt and sincere.

Since then, the 5th day of the 5th month of lunar calendar was set as "Duan Wu Jie" (i.e. Dumpling Festival), to commemorate the incident.

So today had rice dumpling for breakfast

Where can one find gin tonic, Singapore chicken rice and Thai tomyam soup at a same place?



Suvarnabhumi airport lounge of course

Best Japanese sashimi in Bangkok - Sushi Tsukishi at Thaniya Street. This is as close to those high end Japanese restaurants you can find in Japan as it can be.







Starter


Edamame


Ginnan (ginkgo)


Shiokara (fermented squid)

Here comes the main part















and more uni