Thai Food

Today I'm going to tell you about Thai food...I don't mean the stuff in Thai restaurants (I haven't seen one green curry here - well apart from the other night when one of the volunteers had one) I mean the stuff that the locals (that's us now) eat.

It took a couple of days to adjust to the new flavours, sights (flys all over the place, meat lying out in the heat) and smells...I had to start associating the smells with "aroy" (being delicious) as opposed to "ah-jee-an" (being violently ill). In the couple of weeks that I've been here pretty much every dish I've had has been very good - and I haven't been ill (yet).

We get lunch at work. We eat the same stuff that the guys at the orphanage have - which is surprisingly good (I'm sure it's much better than what kids eat in orphanages in the UK).

We eat out at night. If you choose the right place it's much cheaper than cooking at home - we tend to eat at covered in areas by the side of the road where you sit in the middle of a bunch of stalls, each specialising in a different kind of food (noodle soup, put Thai etc.). A meal at one of these places costs 20-30 Baht which is about 30-40 pence.

This is probably the best dish I've had here. It's called Put Prik Gaeng Nua, which means fried beef chilli curry. It's not the best picture but it was very tasty.


I thought some of you might like this picture...especially if you were wondering what happened to all of the extras from Aliens.

This is one of the stalls in one of the places where we eat at night.

This is Gud Dio Sen Lek Moo. Which is a noodle soup with pork (also very tasty). If you look closely you might be able to see a fish ball on the top...I'm not sure exactly what fish balls are (you can insert your own joke) but they don't taste too bad.

And finally - I saw this "little" guy crawling around outside the back of the house...I'm not sure exactly why I put him in the food section - but I do have my suspicions...I have come across the odd crunchy thing in my fried rice...

I will let you know about how work is going at some point - hopefully next week...

Also, I don't know if I've said yet but I'm really enjoying my time out here - Thailand is excellent.