This Ends the Meal and The Visit

The food entry

This is my last full day in Bangkok and so this will be the final entry in the Bangkok Blog for this session. (It’s also always the busiest day.)  This has been an eventful trip. I have a New Neighbourhood Spirit House to monitor.  I got to see a lovely part of the country that I had not visited before.  I explored the mysterious house across the soi from our hospital.  I did a lot of work and, of course, I became Billboard Boy, hopefully only for a short time.

I ate a lot of good food, as I do during every visit, mostly at one of our facilities. As always, it was all wonderful. I also had some street food here and there and it too tasted great.

So to end this session of the Bangkok Blog, I am pleased to invite you to treat this as the food entry.

The first slide shown above is of a pad thai dish made at our geriatric campus. It’s absolutely the best pad thai ever and the reason I never order that dish in Toronto.  I think that it’s also better than the pad thai that you get in most Bangkok restaurants.

During every visit, the kitchen staff thinks that I need at least one western meal, so they always serve steak and chips at some point during my stay.  But as I have mentioned in previous entries, a steak cooked Thai style means lots of pepper and spices.  While it’s not steak frites, French style, it’s still very good.  You can see that meal in slide 12.

By the way, the last picture in the slide show is sticky rice, mixed with beans, coconut and sugar that is served in a bamboo tube. This form is called khao lam. We bought it at a road side stand for 20 cents a stick, while returning from the bike marathon. It’s very good and served in a traditional Thai manner. Most of us know the sticky rice in Chinese restaurants that serve dim sum. That version is called lo mai gai and it’s prepared in a lotus leaf and is usually mixed with chicken.

Until the next time…ความอยากอาหาร ที่ดี  (bon appétit).