Silly Sony

The Many Faces of Sony

This post is dedicated to Sony - who made me laugh at such unexpected times.  She is silly.  Especially with the flats, creating a funny photo, making pouty faces, or when she thinks no one is watching, while playing Angry Birds shaking the iPad to see if that will help to make the logs to fall on those oinking pigs!  Well, here ~ you can see for yourself.

Look at me, look at me!!!

Ah, relaxing foot massage...

Ready, set...

Go...

Sony is EXCITED there's an buffet for breakfast!

My date for a Tamarind meal.

Do I have anything in my teeth?  It's a dragon fruit seed...

No idea what she's grimacing about

The many faces of Sony...

Drama please!   Here comes the ending...

Crescendo!  Fade to out..

The Queen's Botanical gardens required Sony
get covered up, both top and bottom!

Leo and Sony are watching a Steelers game on the
computer in the hot morning sun.  They looked stupid. 

Sony has a GREAT time at the grocery store scouring the aisles for special deals, the damaged goods for mark downs.  She found this container of water for 9 Baht.

Getting creative with the flats - note the difference in bananas.  Then Sony eats her egg sangwich with her flat.  By the way, folks from Pittsburgh call sandwiches - sangwiches, so I'm told. 

The White Palace architect's flat with our flats! 

Admittedly, it was HOT at the palace, though didn't expect to see Sony shrouded with a sarong over

 

her head.  Heck, get in the shade!  The flats are pictured riding on a dragon. 

Note the flats in her apron.

Pouting because my salad is better than hers!

With a python around her neck, Sony still working the
photo opportunity for the flats. 

Practicing her thai massage coursework.  She prayed before commencing, then pretty much laughed trying to position correctly and to get Leo to stop grousing!  It was hilarious, though not for Leo!

Shopping with Sony can be...exhausting. But fun too. She smelled every scent, made her choices, then negotiated. Oy.

Laser hair removal. What a cry baby she was...funny!

She made fun of my glasses...

And  of my pommelos!

I couldn't make the border crossing to Burma without negating my current 30 day visitor visa.  Sony made sure I WAS there!  Below, I think she's making fun of me again...

Silly Sony. Funny Sony.  Big Baby Sony.  Bartering Sony.  Goofy Sony. Creative Sony. Pouty Sony. Bossy Sony.  Enemy-making Sony. Thai massaging Sony.  Sweet Sony.

Fabulous Foods of Chiang Mai

Great foods are everywhere in Chiang Mai!  Check out some of the street vendors along major streets,  at the Saturday or Sunday night markets, hole in the wall places, the food courts in the mall. Good food in Chiang Mai is not hard to find.

Outside a shopping area, this fellow offers skewers of pork, fish, chicken
and so on.  The grill it up for you fresh!

Rice cakes of sorts, some savory some sweet,

Lemongrass Restaurant take-in was pretty great! The curries
and vegetable dishes were flavorful.

This eggplant dish was my absolute favorite.

In a pinch, we opted for a 7 Eleven rice patty and pork
sandwich and a hotdog.

Na took me to one of her favorite local places for lunch.

She has a clear soup with fish balls.
And she ordered pork skewer balls. 

Pad Sieuw is still top choice.

Pork balls

At the Sunday night walking market, there were lots of very interesting food displays!

Sweet potato goodies ~ they remind me of marzipan sweets

Crispy critters

Papaya salad is a popular choice.

Fish balls with holy fried basil. 

Critical to all thai cooking is the keffir lime.  Ugly, huh?

On a busy night, these noodle dishes sell out!

Another local favorite "sticky" rice paddies.

Thai version of sushi. 

Excellent pad thai for 30 Baht!
On the street by the University - super
cheap eats!

Cooked up then wrapped up in an egg omelette.

coconut rice goodies!

Also sweet potato, taro, corn, etc. 

Pork and rice sausages on a stick or balls on a rope!

Grilled goodies

And fish on sticks.

These cold noodles with sauce and vegetable
were also very popular and looked great!

At Central Mall Plaza near the airport offered lots of great food options:

grilled bananas are tasty

These guys offer various noodle and soup dishes.

Everyone helps themselves to the fresh condiments.

Lots of sauce and seasoning offerings.

Leo liked this little pad thai place that made his pad thai to his specifications.  Everything gets cooked inside, no fresh toppings, then wrapped into the omelette.  yum!

He's pretty happy with his Pad Thai.

These are not tacos, they are sweet cookies with a meringue
of sorts and grated coconut.

This place is called 1 Baht - but the only thing on the menu that's 1 Baht is the congee rice - or rice soup.  We got take out a few times before we discovered much better places for food.  It was good in a pinch!

Morning glory was always great, sauteed with garlic. 

This is cashew chicken with onions.  It was fine.

Na was pretty determined to find us a package of durian to share!  She was examining this whole one to see if it's worth it to purchase the whole fruit.

Here I am trying it...it does stink!

 I wanted to try the soup noodle dish Khao Soy, so Na took me to the original birthplace of the dish.  It is a hole in the wall, to be sure.

We also had pork satay which were good!

Khao Soy is a curry like soup with egg noodles. 

Na and I  getting ready to dig in!