Thousand Year Old Pizza

11.11.2011

tata thailand

WE ARE LEAVING THAILAND TOMORROW HERE ARE SOME PICTURES:

MORE CRABS EVERYWHERE WE GO! @rosie&aaron

View from our beach bungalow, Koh Lanta.

Koh Lanta scooter ride yields many drying fish.

2 bums in hammocks.

Quiet boat landing, Koh Lanta.

The only time I'll ever be caught with good posture on camera.

On our way by longtail boat Rai Leh (overrated beach, underrated boat ride).

Krabi.

Crabs kicking sand around.

Anchor action. Longtail boat.

Bangkok sans flooding.

This was a really difficult taxi ride for me.

Chiang Mai grey.

DR FISH!!!

OH YEAH we also went to Singapore for a day in order to eat lots of food (pictures to come). It was ok. Here are some pictures without food in them:

This is Neal chewing gum on the airplane after landing in Singapore. Is it still illegal if you are on an airplane?

Hindu temple.

View from our bathroom or something.

The best thing about singapore were all the fun, colorful buildings.

Especially after looking at Taiwan's drab concrete for a month.

11.06.2011

Sometimes I feel as though I'm living in a Chevy commercial. At least it seems that way since we have come to Thailand where the people here looooooove their trucks. I guess people loved their trucks in Taiwan too, but at least the trucks there were cute and iconic. They were all either bright blue, small, and twenty-year-old mitsubishis OR they were simply a set of wheels with a flatbed and a three-bar halfshell seat that jutted out impossibly far from the rest of the truck, seemingly offering up its driver to be blindsided when pulling out or crushed when the truck rolled forward over him. Here in Thailand all of the trucks are neoned, metallic rigs with sound systems you normally only find in minivans. I guess over-ornamentation is the norm. Here's a picture of our beloved Taiwanese blue truck:

Oh yeah... the weird food update.
Thailand makes up for its trucks with its food. After all our hard work we have finally found the mecca of all weird food travellers's searches:

BLUEBERRY HAZELNUT PRINGLESSSSSSS!!!!
oh wait nvm. It's really...

GRUBS!!!

We found them deep fried along with crickets and grasshoppers at the Krabi, Thailand night market. They actually don't taste like much (sorta nutty) but with a bit of salt and spice they make a great little snack. The kids love 'em!

With a start like this, I can't wait to see what they are surviving on in Bangkok these days!
As a parting gift, please enjoy this tea in a bag:

10.18.2011

Tigers VS Peach Apes for the Championship

As all of you American viewers get ready to watch the World Series, Laura and I will attending the Taiwanese equivalent, the Taiwan Series. I purchased two row 13 tickets for Game four just three days before the game at a typical neighborhood 7-Eleven for a non-whopping total of thirty us dollars.
Gooooo APES!

TAIWAN PART TWO: Landscapes, skyscapes, and other scapes (but no garlic scapes)

Taiwan has been rainy. It seems even more rainy because our only mode of transport is by scooter, on which we (and all of our stuff) are regularly exposed to the elements for long hours at a time. Between downpours, generally in hazy conditions, Taiwan has some pretty unreal sights to offer. Here is a very pared down selection.