Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This is a collection of photos from the streets and alleys of Thailand. The street food in Thailand is wonderful, cheap and a great way to meet new friends, even if you don't speak the language. Here is a collection of photos I took - and decided that this was really a great competition for becoming the winner of the Thai Street Iron Chef Competition. Perhaps I'll try to get the Peninsula Hotel to sponsor the competition??? (Click the image for the full resolution)

From the Parking Lot next to the Asia Airport Hotel, Bangkok

A lonely Iron Chef on Phi Phi Island

Along New Road, Bangkok

This guy has all kinds of sea creatures for meals - click for a larger image and note the prawns in the lower right and the crabs in the upper left

Lots of fresh fruit on a side street off New Road

Random places in Chiang Mai

Here is a series of air conditioned iron chefs - in the Airport Plaza at Chiang Mai

These photos were from the Hot Spring, near Chiang Sean, close to the Golden Triangle

These are from Mai Sai - at the Burmese (Myanmar) Border

Watch this chef prepare a banana pancake - more like preparing paratha with banana, dough and coconut butter

This guy in the background was very impatient - paid for his pancake and walked off before it was finished - sigh sigh sigh - how impatient can we westerner's be?

Back in Bangkok - along New Road and in China Town

I had a lunch here - this nice lady make a soup, that was without description - I simply pointed to everything and she did her magic. A wonderful soup - 25 baht.

These chefs were in Chinatown, in Bangkok, and it was a bit crowded

This lady was doing forearm strengthening exercises - pounding a very sharp knife through the fish - an interesting way to prepare a fillet

This lady was frying chicken - with a smile

This guy was making pancakes and this was the slinging phase - going from a thick dough to tossing it to make it thinner

This lady has a nice smile

C. Frank Starmer

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