Giant Fungus

My mom likes to buy these mushrooms, I'm not so sure what they are called but they come in a pack of three because they are so big. 

These don't taste mushroom-my though, I know a lot of people that hate the taste of mushrooms but these aren't like that at all, I suggest you try them before you say you hate all the mushrooms. They are so fat, one can fill me up easy.

PS. I found this image on google and apparently that thing the boy is holding is a mushroom. I'm not saying mushroom above is the biggest thing in the world but it was huge... not this huge though. And uhm... this one below does not look tasty, would you eat it?

New AC's Birthday!

So our crazy friend, Mint came over today with a birthday cake... not for anyone but for our new air conditioner! We told her we got a new air conditioner and I guess she was very excited for us. So she went over to Bread Talk to get us a blueberry mousse cake. 

 

It says "new air conditoner" in Thai. So she got the cake people to write "Happy Birthday Miss New Air Conditioner... Thaiyanont" I asked her if she got a weird stare from the people at the store and she said when she handed them the paper they looked at her to confirm that this was for real. This cake was soooo good. The fruits were fresh and the mousse was just soo fluffy I felt like I was eating clouds. The only bad thing about this cake was that there were little fruits so not everyone got a slice fruits on it. That created chaos for a little.  

Extending Visa For My Alien

Ian and I had to go to the immigration place today to extend his visa for 30 more days. The area we went to was called Lumpini. I've never been in the area and it reminds me of the Wall St. in NY. It's really boring and it's full of foreign business people. We walked by this building called Life Center. It's like business building with food center on the ground floor. We stopped by there to get some lunch because they had all these cute restaurants there. The place we chose was called Yum and Tum. 

I ordered Larb with noodles. It's spicy chicken salad with noodles mixed in with it. 

Ian ordered shrimp and cucumber salad. This was better than my dish but it was just alright, nothing special. This place had an awesome atmosphere the price was descent, inexpensive. The food looks way better than it tastes though. I honestly think I can make better salads then these. 

Kiss the Cook

Since I'm not working YET and I have a lot of time on my hand, I cook a whole lot here. I'm also learning a whole lot from my mom. Today for dinner I made wonton soup.

Making chicken wontons from scratch is actually not as hard as that might sound. I got these wonton sheets and wrapped the marinated ground chicken and used shitake mushrooms to make the broth. It's pretty simple and it's healthy. 

Dunkin' Donuts

Apparently Dunkin' Donuts here have more to offer than they did in the States. Well, for me they do. Most people should have heard of mochi... if you haven't, you are missing out.

 

I got these from Dunkin' they have mochi inside, so they are super chewy on the inside with the regular donut texture on the outside. They have these in almost every flavor and they are super tasty! Apparently, the original ones were made by Mister Donut and I guess Dunkin' jacked the idea and made them too. 

Korean Beef

Mommy made Korean Beef for dinner and this was deeeeeelicious! She marinated the meat in sake, soy sauce, and sesame oil. You just have to make sure you choose the tender parts to cook so it's not too tough.

Onions, baby radish, and carrots go so well with the beef. 

Ice Monster

I love the fact that there's SO MUCH food around the movie theaters here (actually there's just mad food everywhere). We bought tickets for Bangkok Dangerous and we had about half an hour so we stopped by this place called Ice Monster. I'm not really into their branding/packaging but their ices were delicious.

I ordered Mango topping. They put sweetened ice under. The toppings and ice go soooo well together.

Ian got Raspberry topping. The Raspberries were frozen because they can't get them fresh here in Thailand... so this wasn't as good as my Mango topping. 

Pink Noodles Make Me Happy

For Lunch today we went by this really green looking restaurant called Jeam or something. I really can't spell the name right in English. The restaurants here have really weird names that aren't possible to pronounce as a foreigner.

Ian ordered Shrimp Wonton soup. This was really really good, the shrimp were so fresh you can feel the crunch. 

These fresh Spring Rolls were the appetizers, these were too sweet for my taste. I would've liked them better without the sweet peanutty sauce on top. 

 

This was my lunch, they call this Yentafo here but I really don't know how to describe the pinkness but they have this pink sauce in the soup, it doesn't make the soup sweet or anything... You gotta try it to understand. This was yummy. 

I Like Visiting My Sick Friend At The Hospital Because...

My model friend ended up having to stay in the hospital so we visited her. Normally people bring a lot of food, flowers and gifts when visiting a patient in the hospital but this wasn't the case. I called her up asking her what she wanted to eat and she told me not to bring anything but to come over and help her eat the food she got from her visitors. We got there and there were just mad food siting around. One of her fan clubs bought her some pastries from Lenôtre, one of the expensive bakeries from Longlor (rich bitches area) 

This was alright, it looks good but unfortunately they're canned fruits. 

This was like a custard pie. It formed a pool of custard in my mouth, it's really really good. 

This was similar to the one above but this has cherry flavor mixed in with the custard. I wish I took pictures of these before I ate them... I was so excited I forgot about the blog. 

CREPES CREPES!!!

I don't know about you people but my friends from NY and I kinda have this crepe obsession thing going on. It's becoming very clear to me that Thai people have that obsession too. In the past 2 months I've noticed that there's crepe stations EVERYWHERE here in BKK... every single food court possible they have a crepe station. Today, my brother invited Ian and I to go visit his school, Bangkok University. First of all, this campus was nice as hell, he had already me all jealous because they had nicer facilities than the school I graduated from, Pratt Brooklyn. Then he took me to the cafeteria and I saw this;

They freakin have crepe station$$$ at their school! This made me want to cry. In the past 4 years, if I had came to school in BKK I could've had crepes with my lunch EVERYDAY. 

Yes, this lady is making me the chocolate banana crepe. 

yeahhh.... alll ovaaa that shhiieeettt. 

Kuroda

Today we went by Sukumvit Road, it's where the Japanese grocery store called Fuji Super is located, and around that area there's a whole bunch of authentic Japanese restaurants. We decided to try one out, this place was called Kuroda. Everything here is organic and apparently they have their own farm to raise their own organic animals. 

Ian ordered Masuzake and it came like this. I'm not a big fan of sake so I refused to try. The smell of sake alone makes me wanna throw up. 

Yakitori here was really really tasty. It was definitely the sauce and the charcoal grill. 

Ian ordered Japanese hamburger, this was okay. I'm not trying to be bias but my mom makes better ones than these. 

I think it's a Japanese thing or something to include this random potato salad with the meal. This came with my meal and it was alright. I would've been fine without it honestly. It tasted like creamy/mayonaise-y potatoes. 

This was my meal, my meat sushi. The include chicken katsu sushi. raw beef sushi, and grilled chicken sushi. I think the best ones were the raw meat ones. The rest were just okay.. The atmosphere here was somewhat uncomfortable and the service was horribly slow considering there were only 8 people (2 tables) eating there including us.