Bangkok Week 12 September 18, 2008 A trip to a posh vegetarian restaurant, a trip to a "grandmother's" house, and lots more interesting food. View fullsize This fruit is known as the "blandest of the bland"... View fullsize ... it's in the potato family, and it shows. View fullsize We had lunch with an old friend from Brown at "The Best Veggie Restaurant in Asia" ... View fullsize ... which was actually someone's house. View fullsize We were the only customers there most of the time... the woman in the background is P'Oye, who was generous enough to treat us. View fullsize "Shrimp" wrapped in "bacon"! View fullsize A "steak" in red wine sauce. View fullsize A traditional steamed "fish" dish (well, I guess it's not so traditional, since the original dish uses real fish). View fullsize It started to monsoon on the way home. This is under the shelter of the skytrain terminal station. View fullsize Mum and dad: this is the apartment we checked out. You can see that the top 7 floors are different (those are the apartment levels). View fullsize A "roti". An Indian-influenced dessert, perhaps? View fullsize The very delicious mix of carbs and grease. Mmm! View fullsize These look like green apples... View fullsize ...but they have pits! View fullsize Our Sunday breakfast: Thai-style bananas, and Thai-style bread. Thai-style bananas are mini like this. View fullsize Why, it's a Hand of Bananas! View fullsize Lunch chez "grandmother". We ate outside, because the power was out and it was cooler out there. View fullsize Enjoying the lunch of pizza from "The Pizza Company". Thais enjoy eating pizza with a huge mound of ketchup. View fullsize The pizza, a variety of colorful fruit, drinks, and desserts. View fullsize Chit-chatting right before that day's monsoon came along. View fullsize A cruller, Thai-style. View fullsize Gasp! Doing some work on Sunday afternoon. View fullsize Wash wash washing the dishes. View fullsize "Tasto" potato chips. We got honey mustard and kimchi flavored bags. View fullsize You thought the bananas you saw earlier were small... View fullsize ...but this variety is actually much smaller than the "mini" variety. View fullsize A REALLY large Noi-na. You'll recall that they're normally the size of a tennis ball. View fullsize It looks like a butternut squash... View fullsize ...but it's really a papaya! View fullsize Mmm, our butchered papaya. View fullsize Not-so-subtle worm larvae-like pastries. View fullsize Breaking my vegetarian regimen to enjoy a giant worm. View fullsize A huge momma moth that came to visit one morning. View fullsize The cookies my American classmate gave to me, to help ease my oven-sickness.
