Around our appartment; foodstalls & more

With so much cheap and good food around you almost wonder why they both to put a kitchen it your apartment.  With 11 million people in Bangkok needing eating most of their 3 meals on the street it's not only popular but also cheap.  It's also perfectly clean and safe - the is the free market at work: you don't serve quality you go out of business & no need for overpaid and corruptible hygiene inspectors.

The stalls generally have 1 specialty and 1 type of meat. If you want something else you go to the stall next door.  For example they will sell dry chicken noodles and chicken noodle soup, and next door they may sell red lacquered pork and rice and pork noodle soup.  The Thais being picky eaters keep know who's good and in the office there's a constant chatter about where to eat.

Street view around Thong Lor

At an average price of about 40THB (a little over EUR1) these street vendors actually make good money and its surprising to see them pack up their stuff in their new pickups.  Of course they pay no taxes and the benefits of that are share between their customers (getting a decent meal for a god price) and themselves ... another lesson of the benefits of free markets.

Sticky rice, BBQ fish and misc. Salad ... this woman stands outside our apartment and works like no other. Often her customers help her out cooking while they're waiting.

 

BBQ chicken and Som Tam Thai (spicy papaya salad) ... my favorite & a Northern Thai dish around

The crushed ice and syrup man ... never tasted this.

Our old man (in Blue) selling BBQ Chicken and papaya salad - he's the best on Thong Lor.

Quinn and dad on their way to work & school.  I'm afraid we'll never get Quinn in a normal car again let alone on the back of a bicycle in `Amsterdam.

A walk around our apartment.

A beautiful gate ... a reminder that we're in the rich part of town.  Never a shortage of tropical hardwood in Thailand ,,, there is an environmental price though.

 

Another impressive gate.