Bangkok Week 63 September 10, 2009 A really-very-food-centric week! View fullsize A dinner with Wang (left) before he flew back to DC. (His sister got married in last week's album.) View fullsize Sup eats all his noodles in one bite. View fullsize Fu, Petch's arms, Vee and Joy ... at where else but a food court! View fullsize And the former roommates, reunited (for an hour). View fullsize "Fried Macaroni" from our food court. I think the sauce is ketchup. View fullsize And the dish in the foreground is made with apples! Hmm! (Apples = cha-ching!) View fullsize Standing idiotically like this waiting for the train to drive into the shot. View fullsize Testing out the chair that supposedly optimizes breathing. Does he look optimized? View fullsize Posing with the good ol' Beetle, another display at the TCDC's permanent exhibit on design. View fullsize A jazz concert at the TCDC's cafe. View fullsize Too cheap to buy anything, we stood at the window for a while listening to the jazz, then left. View fullsize A neat night sky over Ari. View fullsize After having broken all our glass or ceramic mugs, I suggested a more plastic investment! (NB: Thailand's tiled floors are a real liability!) View fullsize The Inari Adventure begins! View fullsize Compare: Jasmine is to Japanese rice as a Thai boxer is to a Sumo wrestler. View fullsize Some of the makin's : nori, rice wine, and bags in a bag. View fullsize Preparing the feast: laying the bags out to cool after micro-boiling. View fullsize Who is this man, and who invited him over for lunch? View fullsize After being surgically opened, the bags are ready for stuffin'. View fullsize The stuffer doin' his stuffin'. View fullsize All stuffed now! View fullsize And with the leftover rice: "vegetable maki". View fullsize A carrot-stuffed log. No other veggies on hand. View fullsize The feast! Lots of sushi and a pot of miso soup each. (Plus a tiny wasabi and the shoyu left over from February.) View fullsize Super-excited for Japanese food. View fullsize The artistic shot of fancy carrots. View fullsize Attack of the Killer Inari! View fullsize Stuffed, with plenty leftover for dinner. View fullsize The blue sky and apartment beckon: come back to Bangkok and visit! View fullsize Watch your language! View fullsize While stuck in traffic, this motorcyclist stops to buy flowers from the seller. View fullsize A seller of snacks and yum, whom I watched for a LONG time while the bus wasn't goin' nowhere. View fullsize Can you call this progress?
