Note: I forgot my regular camera on this trip so I used my iPhone camera, which was serviceable enough, but not as good.
Last week I was going to meet a friend in Ho Chi Mihn before he went to a conference in Cambodia, therefore I had to transit in Bangkok using mileage. Whenever I arrive in Bangkok I like to go out to a local food stall and get some street food immediately, the picture above is a bowl of spicy chicken noodle soup.
This great homage to the bachelor staple, "Dogs Playing Poker," was in the bathroom of an open air bar-complete with graffiti from the patrons. It seems the dogs have overindulged.
This is my Thai staple: spicy basil chicken-gotta have every time I visit.
Bring on the B set lunch!!!
I could almost say that despite Thai food being Australia's favourite Asian food (or it is in Sydney at least), I'm yet to have a tastier dish than that set lunch in Koshigaya (was it the context do you think?), but on a holiday in regional Australia back in September - a place called Griffith on the edge of the outback in an irrigation area famous for fruit and wine and populated by lots of Italian immigrants - we ended up having probably the best Thai we've ever had. The owner was European (like German or something - quite un-Thai), but the cooks were Thai.
Posted by: Edward | March 11, 2010 at 06:24 PM
Yeah, it was that restaurant, Mangosteen, in Koshigaya that I developed my love for spicy basil chicken that you see in the picture. I remember that you were the only that would go with me there after the others tired of it when we were visiting the BOE. Natsukashii...
Posted by: MC | March 12, 2010 at 01:16 PM