August is the start of the high season for the furniture industry in the UK. To keep up with the rapid increase in orders, my factory has worked 12 hours a day for 20 days in a row since the beginning of August. Finally, this past Saturday after 3 long weeks, we had cleared all of our scheduled orders.
To show my appreciation for the long hours put in by the engineers and production supervisors, I agreed to pick up the tab for yesterday's lunch. Just wish I had also picked the restaurant.
From afar, Dab Jae looks like any ordinary rural Thai restaurant. Open-air, breezy, surrounded by trees and ponds. Even the food looks normal - spicy soup, fried meat, and some curry.
But upon closer inspection you'll find something not so common - at least for me.
Here you have deep-fried Kermit the frog. If he was alive, I would be shaking his hand. I'm not sure if he would be right-side up or upside down.
Below is some sun-dried beef. Probably the most normal thing on the menu.
I didn't get a picture of the curry, but it was filled with baby muscles/ clams that you find in the ditch next to the road. I passed.
One good thing about Dab Jae is its air-conditioning system, and I don't mean the fan. If you look at the ceiling you can see a blue PVC pipe running along the roof beam. Water was being pumped through it and then, onto the roof where it cooled down the corrugated sheets. I didn't have to break out my winter parka, but it certainly cooled things down.
Finally, this spicy soup had a nice flavor, and the boiled egg yolks looked fairly standard until I realized that they weren't normal eggs. These eggs had never seen the light of day, nor had they ever had a shell. Talk about picking fruit right from the tree - these eggs were picked right from the ovary. In fact, some were still attached.
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