Food update

Fish bean curd. That is what the white cubes on a stick were which I had for breakfast a week or so ago. We were wandering through the Thai food market under the big fancy mall when I saw them and a sign identifying them in English.

Breakfast is turning out to be our biggest challenge. Most bread type stuff is expensive here and we don't have any way of heating anything in our apartment. There was a microwave in the main kitchen at the Lighthouse, so we kept Rotees overnight a couple of times and heated them in the morning. A Rotee is a big, thin pancake that the maker puts an egg on, folds into a

rectangle, puts some kind of topping on, and then rolls up. This one we had cashews on.

They are overly greasy to have regularly.

Now we have a refrigerator so we can keep fruit for awhile. Along with pineapple, watermelon, oranges, and bananas we've had a lot of yogurt, some marked down doughnuts, and yesterday we found some Chinese small coffee cakes. They have a crust-like outside

and then mostly a ground up paste inside. The cubic one had a pork flavor to it. The other two were slightly sweet. The flavor of the red leaf one was more fruity and had a chunk of something orange in it, either carrot or some thick fruit.

This ball thing I tried at lunch time. They took the ball, which

seemed to be made of rice with flavorings, smashed it, added other things (including this soft kind of sausage), mixed it all around and put it on a plate. I don't think I will have it again soon.

The teacher in our Thai class identified the steamed

balls and square I had that were filled with different things. Unfortunately, I didn't write down what all the words she gave us meant so I'm not sure which words were for those things.

:J