Food Monday - Veggies hooray!

We found a vegetarian restaurant that we both like! Really it was an easy choice after our recent food surprises involving meat! The food choices at the food court have been getting less appealing after eating there twice a day almost all week. That is why we have tried edgy choices there and have been glad of opportunities to eat elsewhere.

At first, I was happy to find Yakisoba noodles in the food court since I had wanted to try them a few times in the US. Now I could! They had gyoza there too. After each of those and pad Thai a few times I was ready for something else. Gary's pork liver surprise came from one of his ventures. This week, I ordered some soup from a picture at another booth. It had a piece of meat in it with a narrow light colored strip with a brown, flat, wide, wavy strip attached to it. I nibbled at each part to find the brown part soft and tasting like liver, and the light colored part tough. I only ate the brown part. One day I just pointed at one of the foods they had on display and asked for it. That turned out to be a kind of omelet with green veggies in it, which was fine.

We are glad when we find food we can eat somewhere else.

Mrs. Janooan and her husband took me to a local "fresh" market last Monday evening. She bargained for some papaya for me and asked a seller to let me try a tamarind. She showed me how to eat it too. It was good, so I bought some. They have a hard shell, so they travel well.

Gary and I went there again on Saturday. We met this same young lady that Mrs. Janooan and I bought bread from on Monday. Gary noticed she had a retainer on and showed her his. They laughed. We bought more bread from her, and some cake, and she gave us some little cream puffs too. We found fresh

fruits, vegetables, and deep fried chicken, prawns, and bananas. We didn't buy the roasted frogs or the giant mushrooms.

A student in our Thai class recommended a vegetarian restaurant right along our walk to class. Friday we tried it. Gary bought some roasted pork in the market first in case he felt he needed meat afterwards. He didn't. He found the mushrooms they fixed tasted like meat, or even better. I was just glad to have great vegetables that weren't hot. We get to point at what we want instead of going from a picture or trying to read the food names. They had a wonderful dish with red and yellow peppers along with a bunch of green veggies. They have great prices and change their dishes from day to day, so we can eat there often and still get a good variety. We will!

:J