COMC: Bangkok

For some reason, I had never finished my posts on Thailand…sheesh. I suddenly realized this tonight as the Missus mentioned something about our stay.

So here's a super-late COMC (Clearing Out the Memory Card) post of mostly photos of the city that always smells like something;s cooking….really, it does. On our way back from Chiang Mai, we stayed in the Silom area of Bangkok, in what was the business district. Silom Road seems to be in constant traffic jam mode. Here if you pull yourself away from all of the food stalls, which by the way are right outside all these major business buildings, you can see the infrastructure of the Skytrain. It's sort of like having main street paved with food vendors…one long food court if you will.

The juxtaposition of skyscrapers to the tons of food carts and stands made this quite an amazing sight.

We entered one of the malls, only to come across a large snack and food stand right by the escalators……

Check out this counter….that's piles of pork sung, one of my least favorite foods……

But this was different. The pork looked like they were candied and as the woman offered me a sample in her gloved hand I couldn't resist! But she stopped me before I put it in my mouth……and handed me a ball of sticky rice! God forbid I forget the sticky rice! It tasted like pork candy…pork candy….need I say more? Pork candy……

Back on the street we passed a couple of duck restaurants……

Roast Duck and Rice for 40 Baht ($1.25/US), are you kidding me??? So follow along kiddies, candied pork sung, nam prik, and roast duck and rice so far…..

Then we hit the motherlode , this little stand right in front of a huge bank was this stand.

It was a mother and son team making what looked like Khai Jeaw Mu Sap – Pork and Egg omelete…..

And at only 20 Baht (65 cents US), are you kidding me? So if you're keeping score….candied pork sung, nam prik, roast duck and rice, corn on the cob(from I dunno where, I was hypnotized by me egg), and Khai Jeaw Mu Sap.

As we headed back around…….

The Missus couldn't help but pick up more sweets……

 

Now our hands were full, ….candied pork sung, nam prik, roast duck and rice, corn on the cob, Khai Jeaw Mu Sap, and various sweets……

But that wasn't the end of it. As we headed back to the hotel, we noticed that the kanom krok stand in the alley was now making sausages…..so guess what?

Why not, right?

That pork sung tasted mighty fine and ended up being my dessert…..

The nam prik makhua was not bad…..

The corn on the cob was meh….

The sausages were pretty good…..

As was the roast duck on rice…..

Can't tell you about the sweets, but for me, the winna' was the Khai Jeaw Mu Sap…..the photo doesn't do it justice…..man was it good.

In fact, this is what inspired me to ask Koby, who was then still at Sab E Lee 2 to make this for me.

Good thing we only stayed one evening…a week here and I would make Paula Deen look like Twiggy!

We still talk about the abundance and availability of food everywhere, at all hours in Bangkok. Like I've said before, "they say in America, the streets are paved in gold. In Bangkok, the streets are paved in food!"