So, here we are. Back in Bangkok, full of amazing thai food from restaurant 72 off of Lat Prao Road. Between six people we killed 7, count em, 7 2 litre bottles of Singha beer.
Phuket Thailand was.......well, it was. I hate resorts. I hate overpriced, poorly cooked food at resorts and resort towns. I hate paying to do nothing, when I can do nothing at home. I hate areas of a country where no one speaks the native language b/c they're so used to English. In a sense, you could say I hate Phuket.
But, if you like burgers, spaghetti and pizza (none of which i ate) with Thai and Australian grown ingredients and cooking styles, overpriced poorly tailored suits, over aggressive loud-mouthed swill-peddlers then yeah! Phuket is for you! Don't get me wrong though, some of the most impressively beautiful sights, beautiful women, perfect weather, hot jazz (yes, that's right) and amazing water (80 degree water temp? you gotta be kidding me!). Down below is some pix of the hot jazz in Phuket City, and the beach where it costs $4 an hour per chair! yay! also, it turns out the beaches were clothing optional which, for about 10% of the time, was kind of awesome? You see, for every one beautiful, long haired, Italian, Brazilian, or French woman walking around in her birthday suit, there were about 1000 fat, sweaty, sunburnt, peeling Italian, Brazilian, or French guy, in a thong with buttocks resembling two hippos fighting over the same yard of cloth. yeah.
Booyeah
as promised, here is the end to the griping, and the beginning of the bug eating!!
yeah so last time i posted pix, the format came out all wonky so starting from the beach pic down, We have bamboo worm fried rice (video to follow) then me at the Thai Farm Cooking School (an organic farm in Chiang Mai that offers cooking classes) cooking silk worm Pad Thai (yummmm) Also i have posted a video of me at a market purchasing the insects in question (crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, silk worms, at the bottom).
By far the grasshoppers were the best. They were light and crispy, not unlike pork rinds. The Locusts tasted a bit woody, like baby portobello/shitake mushrooms. The crickets tasted like nothing at all, and the silkworms were soft and chewy, but not nasty. Eating the silkworms was like eating those little peeps
(marshmallow ducks) after theyve been in the microwave for 30 seconds, but they tasted like soy sauce and peanuts.
Well, thats all for now, next post i eat monitor lizard stew, bird's nest drink, and Phuket Lobster!! Wooooooooooooo!!!
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