A day off work and the kids come tomorrow. What to do to ease the
anxiety? Great idea, go grocery shopping. To be honest, I have been putting
this off since I got here. Not only do I love an excuse to eat street food, but
I hate grocery shopping, even in America. I can never find anything, I always
have to ask, and there are too many choices for one product. Yes mom, I’m just
like my dad! And now, not only am I grocery shopping, but I can’t read the
labels, the price is in baht, I don’t know what half the vegetables are, much
less how to cook them, and there is no one to ask for help! This is a ‘recipe’
for disaster. Luckily, one of the other girls went with me and she moved here
from teaching in Vietnam so she was helpful. I kept it under 2000 baht (70$) and
stuck with the basic veggies, salad fixings, cereal, milk, eggs, sandwich
stuff, and a bottle of wine. I couldn’t find any normal looking mushrooms, but
I did buy a package of funny looking Japanese mushrooms, while in the back of
my head wondering if they would make me hallucinate! Turns out they are ok. I
did splurge on this “package deal” of premade but uncooked Thai food. I thought
it was neat they put it all together for you with the spices and all but left
the meat and veggies uncooked. Why not try it? Later that evening, we went back
to Soi 38 for some more street food. It was here I fell in love with a cute
little man and his yellow food cart of noodle soup with fried pork. I need to
learn how to say that in Thai. If any of my friends visit, I will take each and
every one of you there! It might have been the most delicious thing I have ever
had! I ate it like the Thai people, with a little sugar, a little prik (hot
pepper), and well, that’s about all. Maybe not so much like the Thai people,
because a little prik is all I can handle. Thank you to Jaime for showing me
this place. I find that when I go back to Soi 38 alone, it is the only thing I
will order. I am not sure if that’s because I’m too scared to order anything
else, or because I love it so much. Baby steps!
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