A meal for bears.

We were going out to this club called Muse, it's located in Thonglor area. Thonglor is like a rich Japanese people area.  It's one spot in BKK where the most Japanese people own their condos in.. after Sukhumvit area.  So basically everything in this area is expensive. I was starving and we had no choice because I didn't want to get wasted early so we stopped by this Thai restaurant, unfortunately, I can't remember.. I think it was something to do with bears. It's weird. Their food was okay....

I ordered baked sesame chicken.  I know the photo is kinda sad.

Hot Basil

My grandma took me and Ian out to lunch. She took us to this place called Sri Ruen or something. I ordered the glass noodle soup, it was good. Ian's lunch was much much better than mine.

He got the shrimp basil noodle. This was really tasty but a little too spicy. They fried the basil so it was super crunchy. 

Harvest Moon

Every year on Nov. 12th people here celebrate Harvest Moon day. They have carnivals here and it's crazy. They float these things called "Kratong" in the rivers/pools/any surface of water. You're supposed to light a candle, make a wish, and then float it.

 

Some are made out of banana trees/leaves and some are made out of crackers. 

These ones are made out of crackers so it's good for the environment and you get the feed the fish at the same time. Most of these ones catch on fire in the middle of water. Kinda funny to watch. 

So we get there, it was CHAOS. SOOO many people. It looked like an outdoor house party. We couldn't even walk because the streets were so packed. The best part about this was.... they had SOOOOO MUCH FOOD EVERYWHERE!!!! I apologize for poor quality photos, it was very difficult to take photos when people were pushing me from every direction. 

We got these because we were starving when we got there. These were fried rice noodles with vegetables. Eh... it was just too greasy and it wasn't that good. 

I just thought this was some SERIOUS grill action. 

I didn't get this, mainly because these fruit drinks were served from open containers. 

I think these are meatballs, no idea... 

These are like... muffins? Well, the texture is similar but they definitely don't taste like muffins. They're kinda like mini cakes. ...And I don't know why they are green, they don't taste green though, they're good. 

Scallion pancakes. 

Fried fish cakes. 

uhm... birds? 

Grilled squid-- eh this was really bad actually, they didn't grill the squid long enough because I guess they were in a rush since so many people were waiting. This tasted and smelt fishy...REALLY NASTY.

We found these bugs... yeah... don't they look delicious? So yeah I guess people eat these, I couldn't stare for too long because I didn't want people think I was being rude since I wasn't gonna buy any. 

Lots of sushi here, mostly fake ones. These sushi looked totally unnatural. I've never seen the green or yellow sushi before.. hmm... 

These looked a bit more legit. At least they were individually wrapped. 

These are cute, they all have these sweet bean stuffing inside. They coat the outside with gelatin, shaping them in forms of other fruits. These are good. 

These are grilled meatballs, apparently. Would you trust these? I wouldn't... 

This was nuts. Check out how they make these Takoyaki --octopus cakes. They were so fancy they put shrimp and other stuff in them too! 

Squid Man's Tan

Over by where I live there's this fresh market/food market. It's like a long strip of just food. Most of them are pretty well known and most people travel pretty far just to come get food from the little carts that are stationed here. One of my favorites is this squid man. This man comes with his cart at 4pm every day and has been selling grilled stuff on skewers for 20 years now.

I caught him at 4pm on the dot because if I come after business hour (when people get out of work) the line would be too long.

I know they don't look super sanitized. But imagine if they were clean, you think they'd still be any good?? I think not. Some food are better with some grime. Oh and I know it looks like he has very little food to sell for the whole shift. It's crazy because I thought about his food running out before, and how big of a crisis that would create. This little cart looks shitty but he has a cooler/fridge at the bottom of his cart!!! 

This is his money making (charcoal)grill. Not so sure why he only has one when he gets so many order at once. Those are the squid I ordered on skewers, the rest... I think they call those red things 'hot dogs' here and the white ones are meatballs or something. The hot dogs look so gross though. 

After they are completely grilled, he dips them into this SUPER spicy sauce. It burns the crap out of your mouth but it's so good you can't stop eating.