Bangkok Week 16 October 16, 2008 Delightful Dosas, a Tasty Toy, Bangkok Baking, and Ladies' Lunch! View fullsize This photo actually belonged in last week's collection. Half my classmates and my petite teacher from my last class. View fullsize Using a "birthday" as an excuse, we went out for the most elegant dinner yet-- at a Dosa Restaurant. View fullsize Hmm. So many vegetarian decisions! View fullsize We made a reservation, but when we arrived all but one table was empty. View fullsize Ooh, look at the size of it! View fullsize Digging into the pizza-esque dish. View fullsize Note that the giant dosa has changed location. That's because they forgot the filling the first time 'round and they had to take it back to stuff it. View fullsize The Indian version of after-dinner mints. View fullsize Walking along the market-lined street back to the Skytrain station. View fullsize About to be abandoned to ride home alone... View fullsize ... so that a belated present could be picked up "secretly"! View fullsize Guess what!?! View fullsize The cutest oven you'll ever see! View fullsize Ooh... it's warm! View fullsize Would you like to buy a vowel with that oven? View fullsize The next morning, rearranging the "dining room" to watch the Sox game over breakfast. View fullsize Keeping cool with a hand of very-mini-bananas. View fullsize Taking a bus past the Elephant Building! View fullsize The Bangkok campus of Kasetsart University, and home to the Department of Fisheries. View fullsize The main entrance to the Department of Fisheries. View fullsize Again, Mr. Elephant's watching over the traffic. View fullsize Giving country music some local flare. View fullsize Watching the considerably more dismal Sox game the following morning. View fullsize The smallest little bananas you ever did see. View fullsize "Hey there, little buddy!" View fullsize Too cute to eat? View fullsize The Brothers Grim. View fullsize Holding a satin-lined shopping basket at the city's poshest department store. View fullsize Snack time. In Bangkok, soft serve is snorted through the nose. View fullsize An airport? Not this time. View fullsize The view afforded by the glassy walkway downtown. View fullsize A fountain in the shape of the mall's logo. View fullsize The huge mall, and its fountains (that look more like puddles). View fullsize "Cooking" at home... View fullsize ... or at least making an egg custard. View fullsize The fist endeavor with the New Toy (TM)! View fullsize Continuing with the Thai tradition, everything comes in plastic bags. View fullsize Being resourceful... and making sure nothing goes to waste. View fullsize Pouring in the (very expensive) mini chips. View fullsize You can see the problem already: unusually runny batter. If only I could blame the altitude. View fullsize Egads! There's a foot in the oven! View fullsize Appropriately squished, flat cookies! View fullsize Perfectly round, of course. View fullsize And the final product! Beginner's (bad) luck, hopefully. View fullsize Is he delighted? Or dumbfounded by their seemingly impossible thinness? View fullsize Before heading to lunch at Bonnie's house with the ladies, selecting the appropriate plant to take. View fullsize Bonnie's large, lovely house and yard. View fullsize They have a well-manicured, corner lot. View fullsize The dining room... View fullsize ... and the living room ... View fullsize ... and the autumn spread, complete with fruit-and-cheese sculpture and Hershey's kisses. View fullsize My fellow strugglers-with-Thai. View fullsize "Cheese!" Literally. View fullsize The Largest Oven in Thailand. View fullsize A wave from the smokers outside (and the host). View fullsize Mrs. Curiosity. View fullsize The hairy dessert we bought to give to some friends visiting the city... View fullsize ... but decided to enjoy ourselves after they ditched us! View fullsize The now-defunct Disneyland knock-off amusement park down the street from our apartment.
