Phuwanalee resort khaoyai

Great and quiet resort with a massive garden in Khaoyai area not far from the entrance of the national park  of the same name.

One of the interesting things  is that  all those plants and trees gotname and labeled with care in botanic garden style... I love that!

I like the thai classic style building just next to the reception and swimming pool

Witching Well - breakfast at Pai, Thailand

Nice looking and yummy breakfast at the Witching Well  pub and restaurant with witch theme in Pai,northern Thailand.The various menu here will cost you around 100 to 160 baht (30 baht = 1USD) .I recommends the  ordinary breakfast set  that cost about  140 Baht and serves with 2 eggs sunny side up and whole wheat bread with cheese and tomato and fruit salad  .

The restaurant Open from  8:00 am  till 10:00 pm  but quite busy from late afternoon till closing time and the  Phone:084 366 4269 

Hotel near Tra Men bus station Soc Trang at national highway Quac lo 1 vietnam

The Soc Trang is a 2 kilometres from the main national highway  of Vietnam. Bus will drop you off at the junction and there is a local bus station called Ben Xe Tra Men. In case you don't want to go to the  city there are two hotels nearby. SEE THE NAME CARD

Vietnamese Crab soup - súp cua

This version look soft and beautiful 

 I love this soup and have to orders it anywhere i have a chance to meet it. This street food is much more tastier during the winter or you buy it  at mountain resort town like Da Lat or Sa Pa . The soup main ingredient are  crab meat or  their soul (hardly see it on street food version except you buy it in some fancy restaurant) ,some quail eggs ( súp cua trứng cút) ,and  asparagus (Mang Tay)  or  bamboo shoot (Mang) in some version  .It's a thick gluelike soup  but tasty .

 súp cua trứng cút  - crab meat soup with quail eggs

here are  my several clips on this delicious  but mysterious dish .. I said mysterious because sometime seem like there was no crab or asparagus in there at all !


Crab soup - Da Lat version


Another vendor from the Da Lat 's Night market -serves in a plastic cup for take away customer.



This sup cua is from a small road-side restaurant in Nha Trang ,Vietnam.



crab meat soup - Another version which i can't remember where..poor me!

sleeper bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Ca Mau

a bus information : sleeper bus from Ho Chi Minh City to  Ca Mau  in the south. The bus operator is Phuong Trang  futa express or orange bus which is reliable and nice so

The ticket price for one trip is 200,000 Vietnamese dong and travel time is seven hours

sliced pig ears spicy salad - Thai street food

 sliced pig ears spicy salad. look at those thin strip of soft bones!

Interesting dish to try but not for anyone with faint heart .This is the sliced pig ears spicy salad .  This dish  cooked like  all Thai style spicy salad but changed the ingredient to slice ears with have soft bone in it and some part of pig's face.Also added more chopped lemon glass and shallot. 

Thai name :  ยำหูหมู  (Yum-hoo-Moo )
Street food location :  Mae Hong Son  market

pretty spicy dish too with some lemongrass and shallot.

Yummy buffalo wings grilling , Pai street food Thailand

Just look at those nice yummy grilled buffalo wings sizzling  on  fire.I thinks the Thai and Laos grilled and BBQ stuff are the best in this region.Especially with some  sticky rice .
Anyway ...The  dried chili - tamarind sauce  is still too spicy for me to handle .

Location of  street food: Pai,Thailand.

grilling wings over electric stove ..

All buffalo wings marinated in special sauce before put on fire.

Cháo trắng - Vietnamese boiled White rice porridge

sweet shrimp goes well with porridge

Cháo trắng  or the Vietnamese  boiled White rice porridge .  The rice soup is just simply  the main dish and you have to choose some side dishes accompanied  from what ever available of the day .

For my case ,It's  boiled salted duck egg and  sweet small shrimp.

salted duck egg - boiled and cut in half.

My afternoon porridge meal in Saigon 

Fatty Sin - Thai pork leg stew with rice

Every one got a fatty sin and this one  is mine : Thai pork leg stew with rice. (Khao-Kha-Moo) (ข้าวขาหมู)

Actually  this is a Chinese origins dish but i love the Thai version more because they always serves with fresh Chili pepper  and garlic to balance the taste with the fatty taste.

Thai pork leg stew with rice

So much calories but really worth it!