Adventures in Traveling the World
Ingredients 2 cups Taro Root, shredded 2 cups carrot, shredded 25 spring roll sheets, rice paper 1 TBS peanuts 1 egg, beaten 3 cups cooking oil Salt, pepper, sugar, to taste Preparation Put the shredded taro root in a large mixing bowl and add some salt. Use your palms to squeeze out all liquid. After that mix the taro with carrot and add the...
The Winter Guesthouse, where we are staying has a restaurant which is so convenient because we can eat breakfast here. Sometimes, it’s just nice not to hunt for a place to eat. This morning for breakfast I had a scoop of white rice topped with a chicken, onion, and carrot mixture. Andy had a spicy chicken dish. A great way to start off our...
Early this morning we leave Bangkok to take a bus to Siem Reap, Cambodia. The alarm is set for 6:00 am but I’m up at 4:45 and decide to use this time to use the D and D Inn 24-hour internet service. I should have plenty of time to get a chatty email or two out to family and friends. It’s such a great...
Millipedes. Yuck! I killed another one in the bathroom this morning. I don’t even want to think how these little guys get into this high-rise building. We start our day with a delightful breakfast sitting outside on the roof where the breakfast buffet was served. Fried eggs, mystery meat aka bacon, sausage aka little hot dogs, Phad Thai, lettuce, cucumber slices, watermelon, pineapple, cereal,...
Somchai Nitiwanakul was born in Bangkok. At the age of nineteen and with $800.00 in his pocket Somchai came by himself to the United States. That was in 1967 and the city and state he went to was, Seattle, Washington. Small world. He went to Shoreline and Green River Community College while working his way through the restaurant world. He was employed at The...
After standing for thirty-minutes outside the Bangkok airport on a balmy night, a gentleman comes up to us holding a sign with my name. He’s with an air-conditioned van from the Thirteen Coin Resort ready to drive us 25 miles to the hotel. Thirty minutes later we were at our final destination. We walk into an enormous hotel lobby. Old, dark, and along one...