days to remember

 The Second day, we went on our own to the night market that we saw on our way back to AIT. Its just about 15 min journey on bus. Visiting a new place, of course we want to try something different and not just do some window shopping. Upon arriving all the food, food and food jumped into our sights.

Again we walked around hunting for food that looks delicious, amazed at their variety of food. But not all are drooling, though. Some are just weird. :p Saw a little squirrel trapped in a cage. Is it going to be one of the food as well?

Khanom Buang – just found the name from internet. This is crispy yet soft, sweet and mouth lingering~ Another famous Thai snacks.

Thais love pork! Pork is just everywhere. And they eat all parts of pork.

The bamboo rice, very good too. Found weird looking corns, didn’t smell nice so didn’t try it. :p

Japanese food is everywhere, too. So sushi is of course another snack to be found.

This one is really weird for me~~ They just mix everything and eat with some sauces. Ok I’ll never like this!

The famour som tam, made of green papaya mixing various sauces and ingredients. Looks so sour to me.

And some other stalls selling clothes, kichen utensils etc.

This is a good one. Never saw this at other markets or eating place. We were attracted by the colours and tried to ask in sign language whether its edible or not. The cute lady just offered us some to try on our own! Its our candy floss/cotton candy (棉花糖) but in form of hair line. You can just place some of any colour you like on the popiah skin, wrap it anyhow you like, and there you go~ Its sweet, but with the popiah skin you don’t get cloyed that soon.    Did try to bring back, but its spoilt already by the time we reach Msia.

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The first day after the programme ended the postgrad student brought us to the shopping mall nearby AIT — Future Park. We can’t really communicate as their English is also ‘Sendirian Berhad’. :p

AlvinJani ^^

First we explored the food in Future Park, the first item attracted us is this colourful fruit candies. I did come across this Thai dessert while I did research on Thailand. :p We bought a box to try it out, share among the few of us. Very good indeed, not too sweet and chewable.   Too bad I can’t bring them back! Anyone can buy some for me if you go? :p

This is called Luk Chup, Luk or Look means small objects and Chup or Choop means a type of coating. Look Choop was a Thai dessert that originated in the royal palaces of ancient Siam. It is said that the royal family members ate this candy which was shaped like small fruits and vegetables.

Everyone bought different food, there’s just too many to be tried!

Didn’t try all, of course. There are too many. I tried till forgetting how did they taste like. :p  The peddlers were laughing at us, and we had funny time trying to communicate with them, they hardly speak any English!

Beautiful jellies!

Other than food, basically we don’t find much thing to buy in Future Park. Its just like any other shopping mall back in Msia. We found that there are quite a number of gold stores in the mall, and all are of Big store.  It is heard that most gold stores are mostly controled by Thai-Chinese. Chinese are global businessmen, huh.

A man doing handcraft. I saw cute piggy. :p

We went out of the shopping complex to try more food. Street food is a must to try in Thailand. Not knowing what we are eating, we just try out whatever that looks nice.

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Food that can be found in the campus… Most of the time we eat in the cafeteria, also not much of the choices. The roasted chicken stall outside of cafeteria wasn’t a pleasant taste.

Food we’ve tried there… Pork noodle which is just average, fried ‘dong fen’, fried rice, toasted bread, pork steak, pad thai (fried ‘ho fan’ but the noodleis much harder) etc. Food price are more or less like Msia’s. Not cheap also eh~

The students learnt a lot from the talks given by various speakers. I did attend the first talk by Prof. Honda (obviously he’s a Japanese ). Can you spot me? :p

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