Seems to me every time I turn around there is another market. You can not believe how much is sold on the streets here. Everything from Socks to bee and ant eggs to beautiful hill tribe clothing and jewellery. It is a feast for your eyes, and a maze for your feet. If your legs get sore from too much walking there are massage places everywhere, as I have said. Sometimes the chairs line both sides of the street and are FULL too ( all day and night)! No wonder Thai people smile. If you are tired just find a Black Canyon Coffee and get a napkin that says "A drink from paradise...available on earth".
If you want to support Local there are plenty of options for Thai Ice Tea or passion fruit and avocado, Mango, Lemongrass... you name it there is a new and exciting drink that you can discover. Some slimy black liquorice type thing I haven't yet dared to try. You see it isn't always in English, and the Thais in the markets only speak a little (numbers usually). It's tiring bargaining dodging cars and weaving thru people. One must get to the markets early to avoid the stampede of people.
We just got back from the Sunday Walking Street Market in the middle of the old city. I like this market as it has many artisans selling their crafts and the quality is a bit better. We bought some nice things for the condo, a wooden vase, placemats and coasters, slippers (we take our shoes off before entering the home), wooden trash bin, coconut bowls( 25 cents a piece!) and some pottery. It's starting to look like a home now.
I find the best Thai food is that made for you on the street. I have had grilled corn, some veggie things (not sure what they were but served in a bag with a stick as most finger food is), fresh spring rolls, samosas, and the best fresh local strawberries! When we were with Scott and Kate, they showed us around Warorot market and all the places to get fabric, household items and this woman who fresh squeezes oranges! ( now we go all the time to buy the juice, it is divine) I love the markets, both the clothing and the food. I get a bit wigged out with the flies on the food items and will not buy anything that isn't wrapped. Often I don't know what I would do with the food as I have no clue what it is.
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| I believe this rice is home grown! |
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| This is outside the old mall, some great food. |
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| Many street musicians from Blind to Students, playing to earn money. |
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| Warorot Market, Everything and the kitchen sink too! |
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| Not sure what he's selling but look behind him,all the massages going on! |
I look forward to taking part in cooking class this Thursday. As you know I love to cook, so the market with its spices and 80 types of dried fish and everything else turns my head. Allan gets annoyed with me as I could spend hours just staring, photographing, wandering and wondering. I enjoy seeing how people do things from folding a banana leaf into a bowl and fastening it with toothpicks, to eating and serving meatballs with a stick, to serving food in a bag and pouring sauce in it for a whole meal. In the supermarkets the Tofu display has a special water machine to keep it wet. There is information overload, and I must stop sometime, but one last comment for tonight and that is that the Thai's seem to love their cartoon characters, you see these cutsie images on pocketbooks, tshirts, cutouts in front of buildings and just about anywhere!
Did I mention Allan had a clown following him in the market? We herded ourselves out of the market with our giant sack of wares and into a super speedy Tuk Tuk. Ahhh another exhausting but fulfilling day.
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