Bangkok Week 73 November 19, 2009 More fun weekend escapades! View fullsize Indonesian-style scaly bum fruits. These ones are crunchier than the Thai ones, with 3 segments instead of 2. View fullsize Mom-and-pop-shop fried rice (in an alley under a stair case). View fullsize Ooh! 1 kg of butter! This will never run out, even if we try. View fullsize Christmas decorations are up and festive at most malls now. View fullsize Don't Christmas decorations make you happy? View fullsize A big art exhibit by one of the Princesses. View fullsize Apparently she's a fashion designer in addition to an artist. View fullsize A cute exhibit comparing various countries' "arts-related" exports. Doesn't he look into it? View fullsize Concentrating with all my might on the juggling balls. The instructional video didn't help. View fullsize Extremely tacky Christmas decorations abound! View fullsize A huge monsoon passed over downtown Bangkok as we passed through the interchange station. View fullsize A giant Lego fair / construction contest for kids at Paragon. View fullsize Should the really huge kid on the right be allowed to compete against the other little boys? View fullsize Still a sore subject!!! View fullsize 10 second after taking the previous picture, a farang kid came over and destroyed this minaret. View fullsize Impressively tall Petronas Towers! View fullsize A box of mini-Taiyaki from Japan town. View fullsize Brothers (re)unite. View fullsize Really long walrus teeth... the creepy normal length of Thai green beans! View fullsize Sunday's splurge of a breakfast: 3 delicious pastries from a Japanese bakery. View fullsize In chocolate croissant heaven. View fullsize Still have Canada's famous chocolate chips leftover from last year! View fullsize Such nice, round balls. You can guess what happened next! View fullsize Crushed by the giant hand from above that rules the Thai baking skies!! View fullsize Ooh! A perfectly round, fluffy chocolate chip cookie! View fullsize Third batch was (closer to) a charm. View fullsize Too poor to afford a table. View fullsize Speaking of tables! They replaced all the perfectly good, normal tables at our food court with these hunks of tree! View fullsize One type of palm fruit -- the Nipa Palm to be exact. (Read more: http://bit.ly/ouQaq) View fullsize The flesh tastes remarkably like a thick chunk of coconut meat. The sweetened juice is what makes it a tasty snack! View fullsize After cleaning the balcony floor, the perfect spot for an afternoon picnic! View fullsize Relaxing in the cool, almost-winter air... View fullsize ...until the building next door brought in an industrial exterminator to spray the neighbourhood with chemicals! Had to move the picnic to the next best spot. View fullsize An extra-special treat direct from Boston! It's been so unbearably long!!!
