Kanchanaburi, 6/27/11 - 6/29/11
- Mongolian barbeque served on my hostel house boat at sunset. Chicken fat lubricates the piping hot charcoal grill, which I had to carry from the restaurant to my room as the waiters couldn't be bothered. The mixed grill includes shrimp, mussels, calamari, pork, beef, and chicken. Two sauces: sweet chili and spicy num pang fish sauce with chilis plus plenty of vegetables to poach in the broth.
- The night market in which we spend hours. Local kids laugh and play checkers with bottle caps. Street vendors sell sushi, banana sticky rice, crispy fried chicken chopped with a cleaver, fragrant green curry, grilled calamari. Yes to all.
- Crepes pockets filled with taro and corn, sold for pennies on the streets, made with utter care by one man in the pouring rain
- Whole snakehead fish steamed in foil with scallions, lime, galangal with tiny bones all too easy to digest. Looks like an oversized black eel. Tasted just as good
- The man at Sugar Cane bar who befriends tourists by introducing them to his pet squirrel who wears a rhinestone collar
- The little girl on the bus who stares at me for hours making funny faces
- The proprietor at the inevitable reggae bar ("Buddha Bar") in town who is dressed up in full Jack Sparrow regalia and offering us hookah. Plus his two week old black lab puppy, who probably doesn't enjoy the music, smoke, odd pirate walking around, or distance from his mother
The fantastically fresh steamed snapper with scallions, soy, and Jasmine rice oddly shaped as a teddy bear
- The friendly staff and delicious vegetarian food at Tofu House -- stir fried tofu with onions, mushrooms, scallions, and ginger; coconut soup with mushrooms that smile; homemade crystallized ginger for dessert
- The coconut ice cream sundae with "the works" which is an odd combination of dehydrated banana, poundcake, caramelized zucchini, caramelized potato, kidney beans, and condensed milk
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