Keep your pants on

ALRIGHT. I am making my shameful return to blogging after a flagrant mis-management of posts. I am a little lacing in the photo department right now. On a related note... am I the only one who is a little repetitive when it comes to meals? After I photographed my most common meals (see blog posts 1-10), I started to realize that is about all I eat. Of course, I do buy the occasional ice-cream sandwich from 7-11, but nothing to write home about. So I have taken to photographing food where ever I go. It may be true that I did not eat that food at that moment, but it is likely that I have eaten it in the past, so I figure it still counts.

Sometimes Marc and I go to Chinatown. It's a little far away, and a pain to get to, so we pretty much only go when I want to shop. There are vendors that sell tons of things, and there is also a lot of food.

This is a snapshot of the huge bags of dried fruit that one woman was selling. It looks like we have strips of ginger, plums, apricots, a few kinds of grapes (now raisins, heh), and at the bottom something that looks likes black eggs. Not entirely impossible in Chinatown, but unlikely.

Pheuak Kaeng Buat

This is a Thai dessert that I try to have whenever I come across it. Problem is that I don't come across it as often as I'd like. I sometimes see a woman selling what I think might be this, but her cart has all sorts of jars and boxes of lots of kinds of ingredients, which just reminds me how poorly I speak Thai. Even of the words that I do know and are able to recognize, my pronunciation of said words render them practically useless.

So you probably want to know what the icky-looking black stuff is. It's taro. Most everyone has heard of it, yet few people have eaten it. I know I personally avoided the stuff as long as I could. BUT, like most things, when you drench it in naturally sweet coconut milk and pop it in the microwave, it tastes pretty damn nice. The photo above (the only photo I have ever used in this blog that was not actually taken by me because my one photo of this food turned out all yellowy and bad, beyond photoshop bad), it shows the taro in huge pieces, which looks nice in a picture, but I think it is usually served in little chunks.