Sunday we went to Jatujak Market, or the JJ Market, or the weekend
market. The venue was huge and crowded, and I'm told that maybe 10% of
the stalls were open. We looked around and I bought some great stuff.
Then we had Thai Tea. This time it came with a fancy stirring show. A man
poured the tea back and forth between to pitchers while spinning and
dancing. I was impressed and it tasted extra frothy good.
For dinner we went to a sticky rice place near J's house. We had sticky
rice, spicy pork salad, spicy raw prawns, spicy raw crabs, spicy soup,
and really good grilled pork shoulder. Not as much food, but I'm still
full.
Yesterday we were going to go on a road trip, but decided we'll go today
because of traffic. So we tried to see the palace again. We were able
to get into the Wat to see the Jade Buddha but the palace is closed on
Mondays. Then we went and looked at the main plaza. It was still being
used for the Princess's cremation so I was able to learn some more about
the culture.
Then we went to Pad Thai. It was so good, a little sweet but fixed that
with some chili flakes. It came wrapped up in the egg like a present. I
finished and then had another.
Back to the mall! We met up with J's boyfriend and her sister and her
boyfriend and wandered the mall and ended up seeing a movie, when in hot
humid Asia this is what you do.
After the movie we went to a local favorite for dinner. We had rice
soup, spicy soup, duck tongue, some sort of greens, some sort of fish,
an egg dish, and sweet snails. So much food.
Favorite part: having so much down time to just hang out with J.
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