We have been really lucky to have met a couple of Thai people who work at RIS and are willing to help out with the language and introducing us to the many different foods (cooked and not) at the market. Joy, is one such person and she was kind enough to take 3 of us to show us where she gets pedicures and to walk the market again. We have done it before but there are so many things that we do not recognize and ways of life that are unfamiliar to us that it is great to go periodically.As for the pedicure, living in sandals all of the time takes its toll on the feet and it may become one of life's little pleasures here.
You can, by the way, live a pretty Western life and buy food at the big supermarkets but it's not really what we moved here for. It's not to say that we don't have peanut butter etc but for the most part we eat the Thai food from the stalls or food carts. I learned tonight that when you buy a big nasty fish from a grill that the vendor actually skins it and prepares it for immediate eating. The division of labour here is amazing and many people have "takeout" and either cook the rice at home or buy it with the meal-I was warned but still cannot believe the way they bag everything.
With Joy's help we bought oil and oyster sauce so that we can now cook at home a bit.
Pineapple from the market...comes with dipping salt which is amazing
My dinner....noodles, soup and vegetables. I even ate the bad-boy fish ball that was in it. Working the microwave was not obvious but it all got done.
We were walking up to the motorcycle store to buy a thicker rain jacket and came across this crane that had collapse across the building 2 hours before. No-one was hurt but pretty spectacular.
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