Doi Suthep: The Temple in the Sky

This is a picture of the Doi Suthep temple. It pretty much resembles every other temple I've seen in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, except this one is up in the sky. By sky I mean mountain side. At night if you look at the mountain side you can see some lights which resemble a flying saucer in every way. Will and I went up the mountain on his motorbike, which looks kind of like this:

Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself that I'm in Thailand and say, "Hey! I'm in Thailand!". This reminder usually comes to me when I pay 50 cents for a meal and a Spy Red- a wine cooler in a bottle that actually contains a fair amount of red wine in it. Other times it happens when I want something and can't figure out for the life of me how to ask for it, not even with hand signs. Try asking a security guard where the dentist is in hand signs, it's hard.

In thai class today I learnt how to ask the price of things, as well as count to a million. I can know order food in a restaurant with out having to point to the menu--but I still point at the menu and order in English. How farang of me. (Farang: it's what Thai people call white foriegners)

I wasn't sure I'd say this but, I actually miss Western vegetarian food. Well, I think I miss my own cooking is what it is. There are so many vegetarian restaurants here it puts other countries to shame, but my choices are pretty much limited to a zillion of variations of fried rice and curries.

I like green curry better than red curry. I like brown rice with soy sauce rather than white rice with soy sauce. Phad Thai is tastier and lighter than anything I've tasted in America. The spring rolls here contain no meat. Fish sauce is the most vile tasting condiment on the planet.