Thailand 2017: Food!

Food in Thailand is definitely a little different, but as long as it wasn't spicy I enjoyed it. Here's a small peek into what I ate there...sorry I don't have as many pictures as I'd like, but I will include some links to pictures online.

Fruits

I got to try many new fruits in Thailand, and they were probably my favorite new things I tried. For instance, on my post about the hotel, I already included a picture of one of my breakfast plates. However, I'm going to include a part of it again that is of my favorite new fruit: passion fruit.

Passion Fruit - yummy!

Some other new fruits that I learned about or tried were dragon fruit, rambutan, longkong, longan, and durian. The dragon fruit was delicious and was like a kiwi but better, I didn't try durian because I heard mostly poor reviews from those who did try it (Miranda smelled it on her hands for two days), and the other three were all good. 

Rambutan at the Day Market

Durian - it smells a bit like puke but it supposedly tastes good...a lot of the team disagreed on that!

 Main Meals

The fist meal I had at ZOE was Pad Thai, which was quite tasty. Other meals at ZOE were either a rice or noodle base with some sort of veggies and meat or broth that you put with it. Some of the stuff that you were to add to the rice/noodles was too spicy for my very Lancaster County taste buds, so I had Miranda taste test it first and if she said it was spicy, I just ate the rice. Another  meal that I learned the name of was Khao soi, which was noodles in a bowl that had broth and a chicken leg in it. It was a little too spicy for me, so I didn't eat a whole lot of it (the chicken was really good, though). Betsy, our team leader, said that it's not usually that spicy.

The one evening we ate at the restaurant at Horizon, and I ordered fried rice with chicken. It also came with a fried egg, which I am not a fan of (I prefer my eggs scrambled or in an omelet, thank you), but Josh, who was sitting at our table, loves fried eggs, so I gave mine to him...from then on, every time any of our meals included a fried egg, I immediately gave it to him and his wife Becca termed us "egg buddies."

My chicken and fried rice with that fried egg to the side

We also ate at the Orchid Restaurant, which was a buffet, and here is what my plate looked like:

My plate at the Orchid Restaurant

It included fried rice, some veggies, Pad Thai, french fries, spring rolls, and a fried banana. I also got a watermelon shake with that meal, which was straight up watermelon and crushed ice and was so amazing and refreshing.  

Other Foods

Four people on the team had a birthday while we were there (ZOE never forgot one of them!) and on Jason's birthday he got an ice cream cake and he generously shared a slice with each of us.

Jason cutting his cake (PC ZOE)

When we went to Big C for lunch after visiting the Day Market, I wasn't all that hungry because I had eaten some food there so I got an iced coffee and a roti, which is kind of a mix between a crepe and pancake except that it's rectangular and cut into small pieces. Mine was drizzled with chocolate...so yummy!!

Yummy roti!

Lastly, some of us were craving pizza towards the end of the trip, so for our second meal at the Night Bazaar, Miranda, Jenna and I went to Duke's for some pizza! Extra cheese, umm!

Jenna and some of our pizza