It’s all about the food
By Joanna Lee
Food. Food. Food. I was so hungry just now; I could hardly use my brains. Well, its not that I use it very often, but just now was just bad. I could not wait to get myself to Chinatown to get my article down and also to get my stomach filled.
The quest was simple. All we needed to do was to get ourselves to Chinatown and to look for a story to write and to makan. Sounded easy enough. Well…not that easy. First of all, we had to get a tuk tuk, then we had to bargain the price, and while on the ride we had to pray hard that we get to Chinatown in one piece. That’s a lot of work.
Upon reaching there, (thankfully in one piece) another problem popped up. There was just too much food, too much to choose from. Practically the whole street of Chinatown is filled with food vendors; it was food heaven.
Check out what we ate …
Down town Bangkok- Food Heaven
Seafood for the soul
Old school stuff- Kaya and bread
All in all, we spent about 250 baht each on food tonight. Cheap and GOOD. We were going from shop to shop trying out the varieties of food.
For the first time in days, we could speak to the people without the help of our student guides or having a hard time speak to the people using simple English and actions to show them what we wanted. The people there spoke mainly mandarin and hokkien. This is good with me, not really good in those two dielects, but it was enough to get the message through.
That was good enough for me.
