A Slow Week

It's been incredibly uneventful here in Thailand since I got back. The little that happened was when I came back from Laos last week.

Immediately upon getting out of the airport, I was whisked away to a restaurant near RCA run by a famous Thai singer.



This hunk o' man was apparently slim and all the rage in the '80s in Thailand. Like, top of the charts and whatnot. Turns out he's a nice guy and still has quite a voice, and the food there was delicious. Still, it was a little odd to see the usual buttoned-up 40s-ish Thai crowd pounding drinks and singing along.

The next day or so, we went out to eat again at a place near my house. It's quite literally a shack on the edge of a rice field, but the food there is delicious. Easily one of my favorite spots in the city.



Stir fried seafood with fresh pepper.



Yam salad (lemongrass, lime juice and chiles, basically) with fresh shrimp




Possibly my favorite Thai dish: Pan fried soft shell crab with black pepper.

That being done, it was a boring five or six days until I headed out to MBK shopping center, one of Bangkok's meccas for fake and legitimate goods to see what was new.



I was briefly tempted by a food cart, but all they had to offer was grilled hot dogs and unripe mango. Conversely, two of my least favorite Thai dishes.



Mahboonkrong, seven floors of replica and authentic....almost everything, and notably Tanner Lee & Na, our one good Japanese denim shop.




But all I found was the Bape. Crap

The center stairwell at MBK. The bottom floor there always has some half-assed sale going on, but it always sucks. This week? Ugly men's suits and huge blankets.