Food glorious food

We always see our trips as a good chance to loose a bit of weight - no wine, chocolate, dairy or bread. This holiday is proving slightly different from the norm, the food is so good we find ourselves almost grazing all day long. Obviously we aren't eating all the aforementioned rubbish and we are definitely not drinking bucket loads of wine on a daily basis so hopefully we could still be on slimming world Thai-style.

The Thai food vendors generally know enough English words (and definitely more than our Thai) to give us a vague notion of what they are selling. Some stalls have a buffet arrangement so pointing is all that is required. Most of our meals have been costing between 30 - 40 baht which is less than £1.00. Proper cheap eats.

Spicy really means spicy here, the red and green curries as we know them at home are tame. On every table is usually an assortment of dry chillis, chopped fresh chillis, soy sauce and sugar, so spicing up is an option

Breakfast seems to be mainly noodle soup. Very tasty, very fresh but soupy. Adrian loves it and gets upset if he can't find any when he's ready in the morning. The 'meat' element differs by area I think. In Bangkok the meat is squid, in Ayutthaya it was chicken here, in Phimai it's beef. Now I say that with confidence but, to be fair, my confidence was shattered

yesterday.

Phimai has a nightly night market which is food in one form or another, we had some beautiful fish cakes, gorgeous noodles and a lovely spring roll, we suddenly lost our appetites when we saw... BBQ rat.

This little upset aside the food has been wonderful and we have yet to eat in a 'proper' restaurant needless to say my next meal post rat was vegetarian.