Bangkok Week 59 August 13, 2009 A royal food bonanza! (Apparently the Olympics started a year ago this week.) View fullsize Dinner with some blurry old friends from Brown. View fullsize Do these balls look "walnut-sized" to you? View fullsize Post EZ-Bake. View fullsize A fresh batch of cookies in our new bowl (which was quality-tested at MTEC!) View fullsize Death by Oatmeal-Raisin. View fullsize An impulse lunch at a proper restaurant -- middle eastern to be exact. View fullsize Falafel! It's been so long! Oh how I've missed you! (Why are you so expensive in this city?) View fullsize Another new hi-rise going up downtown. View fullsize The soon-to-be-innards of a quiche! View fullsize Using what we could find to roll out the dough. View fullsize Ta-daa! Cheddar-tomato-leafy green vegetable quiche! View fullsize The Tillamook cheddar from Mexico still hasn't run out! View fullsize Mmm, home-made food. How novel. View fullsize Lazy holiday-morning-skype with the folks in NJ. View fullsize One vendor at the new food court. They sell Japanese curry and... pizza. View fullsize The ambiance of the new food court. It has about 10 different vendors! View fullsize The vegetarian Japanese curry on rice. View fullsize A view from above of some vendors and farang. View fullsize The woman from whom I now buy dinner. View fullsize Look at all these grilled "meats"! Yum yum! View fullsize A Mother's Day Bonanaza at a mall downtown. Here, a promotion on gourmet ice cream on a gourmet roll. View fullsize We thought we'd be the only ones coming to this fair... clearly we were right. View fullsize It was selling products made under the "Royal Project", including fresh vegetables. View fullsize But they were also selling Royal curry pastes, chips, juices, clothing, cloth, souvenirs, etc. View fullsize The crowd was compounded by everyone's bringing their mothers. View fullsize Here, lots of people take pictures of the same thing. Hi Moms. View fullsize Two kinds of mangoes: a sweet, juicy variety and one that remains crisp and tart. View fullsize The workers were out working hard all week, but I'm not sure I see much progress. You?
