Korat Pizza Vs Bangkok Pizza

Korat's The Monkey Bar was the easy winner with its spicy basil chicken pizza.  Simple, cheap, and tasty.  I go there almost every week.

Bangkok's AKART tried to do a bit too much with its Carbonara Pizza.  The white cream sauce and runny egg were fine, but it was also topped with fettuccini noodles, putting a capital CARB in carbonara. 

Do Not Want

This restaurant keeps its toothpicks in the  bathroom. No thanks.

Lucky Charm

A little luck can never hurt, so Nuch bought me a good luck Chinese warrior statue to ward off evil spirits and what not.

Here's a picture of me in 2008 .

and in 2018.  A lot less hair and a lot more gray ones

A Day In Chiang Mai

Last week, Nuch and I met up in Chiang Mai for the weekend.  

We arrived Saturday afternoon and basically lounged around because Sunday we had a big day planned.

Sunday started with a visit to a famous "Jedi" monk, who blessed us, if that's the right word, and gave us lucky string bracelets.

For lunch, Nuch picked a popular Northern Thai-style restaurant

In the afternoon, we visited a mountain-top temple, did some good luck stuff, and took in the view.

Showing off my lucky bracelets

Nuch chose lunch, so I chose dinner.  Great atmosphere, but only so so food.  Nuch picked the winner this day.

Finally, after a day overflowing with culture, we were off to the bars for some Beer Chang and the World Cup

Corn Cheese Overload

Thailand's relationship with corn has always been suspect.  Sure, they eat corn on the cob, but you're just as likely to see corn sprinkled atop a bowl of ice cream - along with red beans.  Recently, I saw a new corn travesty - Corn Cheese Sauce by KFC, which is used to pour over your Kentucky fried chicken - Colonel Sanders just did a horizontal 180

It should be noted that there is neither corn nor cheese in the ingredients.  I also take issue with KFC's Thai spelling of  BBQ, which would be pronounced Bee Bee Cue.  C'mon KFC, only a communist would pronounce it that way

I assumed Corn Cheese was a mad experiment isolated to KFC, but now, I'm seeing it everywhere

Although this new corn cheese flavor is not very good and does not contain any corn or cheese, it really does tastes like corn and cheese!!