So, today started off well, I went to Lung Jar's for lunch and some how managed to end up with a whole fried fish on my plate, with a dish of chilli garlic oil, and an accompanying plate of rice. Not really sure how to eat it, I somehow managed to make a huge mess, but in that mess I really enjoyed the fish!
Then went to eat at the best kai thod (fried chicken) shop in Bangkok! I was VERY excited! Arrived in Ploen Chit, then began walking, and walking, and walking.....and so and and so forth......eventually we ended up near Chitlom (a whole suburb down) and found the shop! Hooray....EXCEPT, it was CLOSED! CLOSED! Dissapointment of my life! Well, to try and make the best of this dissapointing situation, went back up the road we came down to the 3rd Floor. This place is also in the 100 food secrets in BKK and is conveniently located on this long, loooong road. So, this place is really interesting. It has designed its menu around the different blood groups, and each food is categorised based on which blood group shoud eat it! Bizarre huh!
So there are certain foods recommended for A, O, B, and AB respectively. Here is the description of which group should eat what food.....I am B.....by far the superior blood group when it comes to what you can and can't eat! Lucky for me!!!
So all food ordered was designed for B blood group peoples. For drinks, had a kiwi, green apple, grape and something which sounded like a high-tech vitamin suppliment.....mono-techno, fluro......something something....I don't know! Also had a vegetable drink which tasted like a greek salad blended into drink form....kind of nice, if not slightly odd when your tastebuds are telling you greek salad at the same time as you sip it through a straw!
For food, ordered an apple, pineapple and carrot spicy salad. It's like fruit salad, but with chilli! Only in Thailand!!! Also had grilled pork which came with a fruit kind of sauce, and potato croquettes. And finally, crispy noodles with chicken, shitake in soup. All were really nice and used really fresh vegetables and fruit. And the meat was perfectly cooked and the sauce was really tasty! Was such a nice meal!!
For dessert had what was called a good day cake". Hahaha, unfortunately this didn't work as I will explain, bu the cake was awesome! Also tried the palm in syrup. The fruit was something from a palm, and the syrup was made from the purple flower on the top
After that, went to Siam to look into gym memberships coz I heard they are cheap here and jogging outside is a no go given the heat, pollution and random dogs, people, other animals who sleep on the street in random places. Anyways, apparently California offer cheap cheap deals coz they're going out of business....lucky for me huh! Except they don't have set prices, you have to bargain with a salesman....hmmmm. Anyways, the guy who was trying to sell me a membership for only 10 times the price offered to a Thai really got on my nerve. And I am not allowed to get angry in this country because that's not allowed, so instead I am going to write about it here because what he did has been annoying me since I arrived, and I am starting to get sooooo sick of it. Anyways, so he is getting me to write down my details, then he confirmed with me everything, which involves me repeating my address etc to him. So I have to say all these Thai names, and after I finish, he proceeded to laugh at me for trying to speak Thai, and say (in Thai so I wouldn't understand) how funny I sound when I speak Thai hahahaha.....yes, funny funny funny. Dude, I am trying to speak Thai....AND, I AM A CUSTOMER....What makes you think you can laugh and make fun of a customer to their face..and be so sneaky as to do it in Thai so you think they don't understand!! Well I did understand you and I'm getting sick of this. It happens all the time here. If I don't try and speak Thai I am ripped off, over-charged etc etc. If I do try and speak Thai, I am laughed at and made fun of. Seriously....people here.....it's not like I don't listen to a zillion Thai people speaking English and making mistakes and sounding "funny"....but I never make fun of them for trying, and certainly I don't laugh at them. It's difficult to speak a foreign langauge, and people need encouragement, not people laughing at them all the time and poking fun at them, especially when they are the CUSTOMER!! Arrrgghhhhh, anyways, tomorrow is the immigration office day......please please please go smoothly!!!
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