Babes in Thailand - food Monday

Pad Thai noodles with nuts and tofu has been my mainstay when I can't find anything else I'm willing to try. It is also usually the lowest priced item on the menu and often it's hard to tell what the other items will be.

Near where we are staying we found an open air market selling all kinds of foods. These we can see to choose from. The first evening a young woman had crispy, thin rice noodles in different colors and flavors with a few vegetables mixed in. She kept giving me sample of the different kinds saying, "Not hot! Not hot!" Then a lady next to me told me the flavors in English. I tried the pumpkin flavored kind and hoped she'd be there again. So far she hasn't been.

The morning we found it we were ready for a little bit of breakfast. Gary had some pork on a stick and I chose two sticks with white something on them. The long white one tasted like shrimp pressed together. The bits of hard things, maybe shell, I had to refrain from spitting out. The white cubes were soft, like scallops. All of these were roasted.

We also bought some fruit. They had oranges that were kind of like tangerines. Their bananas were cute and sweet.

We also got a green fruit that tasted vaguely like an apple, though not as juicy. They were quite willing to give taste samples of fruit we were unfamiliar with. One that looked like a yam tasted sweet, juicy, and gingery.

We've gone back for dinner a couple of times. Here are some of the things we've tried and not tried.

We tried a couple of what pastry pies. I thought mine was potato and Gary's was supposed to be chicken. They were filled with a kind of flavored paste, though, made from those things (we think).

We didn't try the squid

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These rice dough covered items turned out to be pretty good. They were steamed. The green square was onion, the yellowish balls were bamboo, the brownish round balls were a paste of cashew, and I don't know what the roundish green one was.

We didn't get any fish baskets.

School was just getting out when we walked toward the market Monday. Many vendors were out catering to the students. This one, selling french fries, was popular. Gary got some when we came by again heading home. They were very good. You could still taste the potato in them.

So far we've managed to eat several different things in different places without getting sick! Thank you, Lord, and please continue to bless our food!

:J