A week of work in Singapore warming up for a trip to HCM & Mekong Delta.
Newton Circus never disappoints if you can get your hands on what the locals eat instead of what’s on the menu
Braised pig skin in master stock with three types of tofu & of course, chicken wings even though AB hasn’t arrived yet
What a ripper – we are poaching this in the fish kettle for our special guests coming to stay at the Island tomorrow night. Beautiful weekend at the beach.
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Happiness is chicken wings for you know who!
Evidence
Harmonique again – great place to eat – groovy tunes and good food
You gotta have Tom Yum
And not allowed to leave Thailand without a green chicken curry.
But leave we must! Bye bye Bangers.
Looking over the old Colonial wing at The Oriental
AB and I have had a great few days up here. We fly home tonight. Weather has been bloody hot with really high humidity. We went way up the river yesterday. Bangkok is so much cleaner than it was even 2 years ago, but there’s still lots of alarming things around like power lines that have fallen into the water etc. “Bwoken” as they say.
The Oriental has been a delight as always. Such a beautiful hotel with incredible service. We’ve managed to meet really interesting people at the bar on the river each night. Last night a woman from NY who owns and runs a huge International business that makes homewares from timber. She sources all her timbers in Asia and has everything manufactured up here and then taken back to the states. She stays here once a month. Lucky her.
Here’s some pics from the streets:
This is the Thai equivalent of bouquet garni. Kaffir Lime leaves, galangal and lemongrass secured with the rudimentary rubber band.
Omelette at floating markets
Thai fast food. Som Tam. Everything is packaged in plastic.
Curry pastes easily bought ready made. Saves a lot of pounding.
Beautiful fresh noodles from Prackat – our fave duck place.
10c for gorgeous chook – if you’re game!
Busiest Congee shop in Bangkok
Happiest drinker in Bangkok
Roast pork
Endless and surprising options
More duckity
Brilliant soup with fresh noodles, pork dumplings and BBQ pork. Exactly the same flavour as Chinese BBQ pork without the red colouring.
Making the sweet dough
Which ends up like this
Home tonight but last food adventure today at Harmonique a gorgeous little eatery with obvious French connections that serves really authentic curries. Shall post pics later.
A little like the Fish Amok of Cambodia you’d be game to eat these little delights
AB says these are eels. I maintain they are snakes. Ewwwwwww anyway. We watched them being parcelled up into plastic bags by enthusiastic buyers. We assume buyers take them home and fatten them up for eating.
“Fresh fish”!! Yeah right. Very warm fish sitting in direct sunlight all day more like it.
Speaks for itself really
Good reason not to drink ice on the streets!
Yesssssssss!!…. This is what we are here for. Prackat Duck is the ultimate experience of the melding of Thai/Chinese flavours and how well they can work together. This tiny hole in the wall eatery is jam packed with locals. We were plonked on a table with an elderly Thai woman who fortunately for us spoke some English and gracefully translated what we wanted to our waiter. She has been coming here for years always having the same simple dish of noodles and duck.The benefit of her translation meant that we got cold beer which seems to be a challenge round here.
Here at Prackat the ducks are stuffed with fresh Thai herbs including Kaffir leaves lemongrass and galangal before being marinated in Chinese flavours and then slow roasted in a mangrove wood coal oven.
They serve as a sauce over the duck all the juices that are extracted in the cooking process. The result is an you’d expect. Bloody fabulous.
These guys also do pork and noodles. We shall be back.
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