19 June 2005
My Lips are Tingling
We've just finished a huge Thai meal overlooking the Chao Praya (its a river for all you coogee-ites reading) and I can't really feel my lips. The Thai waiters warn you order something spicy/with taste and foolishly we decided to ignore them. These people do not take their curries lightly. Despite my food sweats (it was an air conditioned restaurants), the food was great and included a huge helping of stir fired crab for about five dollars. We've enjoyed local Indian pancakes (Roti-Mataba) and French crepes served by Thai people wearing berets (Crepes and Co). I faired better then Ed this afternoon by picking chocolate milk over strawberry/ medicine flavor, but he still leads the series by passing on the mystery sausage (it had rice in it and was made by a weird old lady) and chewy octopus that I've purchased. There are approximately 83 food stalls per square foot and they offer interesting, if not delicious, nutrients.
In other news, we've fully mastered the ferry system which is quite awesome. Big boats pulls up to little docks, slow down and a ton of people (and monks!!!) jump on and off. To go under a bridge, the attendants lean on the roof so the boat meets the height requirement. We used the ferry to get to Wat Phra Kaew (Emerald Buddha) and Royal Palace which were both incredible. I'll try to get a few pictures on soon, but even those won't do them justice. They are amazingly intracetly details and also huge, like nothing I've ever seen before (though one traveller told us "A wat is a wat"). It turns out we are also a tourist attraction, no less then three groups of Asians came up to us and asked to get a picture taken with us, mabye they thought Ed was Prince William.
Today we checked otu the Vinamek Teak museum. It is a huge palace with a ton of elephant tusks and not a single nail holding together the entirely wooden structure. It had all the taste of your grandmother's apartment, Thailands first sewing machine (!!!!) and typewriter (!!!!). It was as exciting as it sounds. But we did see some cute Thai kids doing traiditional dances (read: the chicken dance). Now we are heading up to Chaing Mai and Pai to do a couple days trekking (hopefully involving an elephant) then probably over towards Vietnam.
Cheers!
E and S
In other news, we've fully mastered the ferry system which is quite awesome. Big boats pulls up to little docks, slow down and a ton of people (and monks!!!) jump on and off. To go under a bridge, the attendants lean on the roof so the boat meets the height requirement. We used the ferry to get to Wat Phra Kaew (Emerald Buddha) and Royal Palace which were both incredible. I'll try to get a few pictures on soon, but even those won't do them justice. They are amazingly intracetly details and also huge, like nothing I've ever seen before (though one traveller told us "A wat is a wat"). It turns out we are also a tourist attraction, no less then three groups of Asians came up to us and asked to get a picture taken with us, mabye they thought Ed was Prince William.
Today we checked otu the Vinamek Teak museum. It is a huge palace with a ton of elephant tusks and not a single nail holding together the entirely wooden structure. It had all the taste of your grandmother's apartment, Thailands first sewing machine (!!!!) and typewriter (!!!!). It was as exciting as it sounds. But we did see some cute Thai kids doing traiditional dances (read: the chicken dance). Now we are heading up to Chaing Mai and Pai to do a couple days trekking (hopefully involving an elephant) then probably over towards Vietnam.
Cheers!
E and S
