Bangkok Week 69

October 22, 2009

It's that time of the year again! The time when the entire country goes vegetarian for a week, which makes our lives that much more exciting! The theme this week: food food food!

Friday, the first night of a week of feasts! A savoury soup and spicy basil "meat" stir fry.

Peace! Vegetarians unite.

An advert for the annual BTS-sponsored vegetarian feast.

Back again at Tesco: a buffet of vegetarian meats and seafoods.

Checking out the huge variety of vegetarian curry pastes.

Even the deli counter serves only veggie!

Yes! Vegetarian pastries!

Vegetarian lunch at the Tesco food court.

Two thumbs up to this great week. Thank the Chinese.

Vegetarian ice cream from a traditional coconut ice cream seller. (This form of vegetarianism excludes dairy products.)

Vegetarian head gear... warrior style?

In case you'd forgotten, fresh fruit is vegetarian too.

What's most exciting is that all the street vendors, from whom we normally can never buy, sell 100% veggie!

Lots of dishes! Take your pick!

Yellow yellow everywhere... and it's not even Monday.

All sorts of crazy new dishes! Another feast.

Saturday: 5-nut stir fry, "crab" roll thingy, and my favourite leafy bitter curry.

Sunday's lunch: vegetarian ramen (with a mixed message, since it includes MSG).

Complete with dehydrated protein veggie balls! Bouncy bounce.

Mmm, ramen. It's been so long.

Good ol' crinkly noodles.

This huge machine was blasting outside our apartment at 7am on Sunday morning. Why, you ask?

To lift giant steel beams over our poor building onto the roof of a huge bank complex next door.

Someone was driving too fast!

Tug just a little bit harder!

Twins! (A spicy nori snack, eaten like potato chips.)

Sunday, clockwise from upper left: bitter melon stir-fry, deep-fried taro, another spicy basil stir-fry and orange curry.

Monday: stir-fried greens and meat, crispy spicy meat, tom yum soup.

Tuesday, the feasts continue!

Tuesday: spicy stir-fried sprouts, green curry, spicy red curry.

Whoo! It's a special visa!

Wednesday: spicy bamboo stir fry, ginger-mushroom stir fry.

All week: the transformation continues!