So many food stalls, so little time! (4/22)

Ashley, Amy, me,  and Tiffany

The food in Thailand lives up to the hype; it's as delicious and cheap as I hoped it would be.  The main road by our hotel is lined with food stalls and open-air restaurants.  For breakfast, a lot of Thais eat curry, rice, or soup.  As a breakfast lover, this is a hard transition for me, so I've been sticking to fruit.  I bought some mangos from the market and they are some of the best mangos I've ever had.  For lunch we get an hour break from class and some of us will walk to one of the many restaurants that line the streets.  I've had a really good green curry, a pho-type soup with pork, a curry coconut chicken soup, papaya salad, and really good smoothies.  For dinner we'll either eat something similar or go to one of the food stalls on the street that come out in the evening.  There are all kinds of food stalls; everything from sushi to omlettes (don't ask me why the omlette stand doesn't come out til after 5pm..) to meat on a stick to spring rolls to desserts.  I've been having a lot of fun trying new things and will often end up ordering something without really knowing what's going to come out.  The prices are so cheap here that it's hard not to try everything!  My green curry dish was 35 baht ($1 is about 30 baht), a fruit smoothie is 20 baht, and a 2 egg omlette served on top of rice is only 15 baht!  Dinner for 50 cents is hard to beat.





soup with pork meatballs