Our "kitchen". We only have a microwave oven to boil water or warm up food. We don't have a sink or stove. We wash our few dishes in the shower.
We pray first for the fishes rebirth before we eat it.
Health, healthy, healthy.
Eating on/off the floor like most Thais. .
After a day on Dongtan Beach we walked home and got ourselves some food from the evening market. As most Thais don’t have a kitchen, including us, we/they tend to get out and pick up some food from any (night) market. In Thailand you can always find cheep ready made food within walking distance from wherever you live. Cooking at home is actually more expensive. Only the rich have kitchens and eat at home.
Every street has little eateries where you can sit down on a plastic chair at a foldable table with complementary free water with ice cubes, or you can buy food from stalls where they grill anything for you, from crunchy cockroaches to squid, chicken, pork, duck, and take it home. The Thais eat many times a day and portions are small. Also, they eat a lot of raw materials. I think all these things combined keep the Thais slim and healthy. Fat Thais get that way because they may drink to much beer or Thai “whiskey”. Most Thais are alcoholics. Oy.
In my home, there is only water for drinking. Milk is ridiculously expensive and we can’t afford it. We get the water from a reverse osmosis water machine that you can find in every street. You put a jerry can in it, put 1 baht per litre into the machine and press a button.
We boycott the Coca Cola Company, Pepsico, and Nestle thus we do not buy their bottled water, nor a coke, Pepsi, Fanta etcetera. We do so because those companies cause much trouble for the environment and local communities, whilst drinking soft drinks are just not very healthy for your teeth and the rest of your body. Also, bottled water often contains more toxins than regular tap water or water that has been filtered by machines, not to speak of the insanity of drinking 40 baht tap water from plastic bottles: what’s next, breathing city air from containers provided by those companies?
When we eat, we use our hands or chopsticks, depending on what we eat. Today we got a local fish, mussels, noodles and a variety of raw vegetables and herbs and two types of fruit (chompoe and melon). We need to get everything fresh every day, as we don’t have a fridge. The way we eat this stuff is buy getting a piece of lettuce, put some noodles on it, a bit of fish, herbs and other veggies and wrap it up in a bundle and stick it in our mouth. We normally use old newspapers as a table/floor cloths but we forgot the steal the old newspapers of our neighbour. All the food costs no more than the equivalent of 2 US Dollars. Tomorrow I will try to take a photo of the water machine in our street. As I have lived in India and now in Thailand, water is our number one priority in our lives and I have a few more things to say about drinking water.
After a day on Dongtan Beach we walked home and got ourselves some food from the evening market. As most Thais don’t have a kitchen, including us, we/they tend to get out and pick up some food from any (night) market. In Thailand you can always find cheep ready made food within walking distance from wherever you live. Cooking at home is actually more expensive. Only the rich have kitchens and eat at home.
Every street has little eateries where you can sit down on a plastic chair at a foldable table with complementary free water with ice cubes, or you can buy food from stalls where they grill anything for you, from crunchy cockroaches to squid, chicken, pork, duck, and take it home. The Thais eat many times a day and portions are small. Also, they eat a lot of raw materials. I think all these things combined keep the Thais slim and healthy. Fat Thais get that way because they may drink to much beer or Thai “whiskey”. Most Thais are alcoholics. Oy.
In my home, there is only water for drinking. Milk is ridiculously expensive and we can’t afford it. We get the water from a reverse osmosis water machine that you can find in every street. You put a jerry can in it, put 1 baht per litre into the machine and press a button.
We boycott the Coca Cola Company, Pepsico, and Nestle thus we do not buy their bottled water, nor a coke, Pepsi, Fanta etcetera. We do so because those companies cause much trouble for the environment and local communities, whilst drinking soft drinks are just not very healthy for your teeth and the rest of your body. Also, bottled water often contains more toxins than regular tap water or water that has been filtered by machines, not to speak of the insanity of drinking 40 baht tap water from plastic bottles: what’s next, breathing city air from containers provided by those companies?
When we eat, we use our hands or chopsticks, depending on what we eat. Today we got a local fish, mussels, noodles and a variety of raw vegetables and herbs and two types of fruit (chompoe and melon). We need to get everything fresh every day, as we don’t have a fridge. The way we eat this stuff is buy getting a piece of lettuce, put some noodles on it, a bit of fish, herbs and other veggies and wrap it up in a bundle and stick it in our mouth. We normally use old newspapers as a table/floor cloths but we forgot the steal the old newspapers of our neighbour. All the food costs no more than the equivalent of 2 US Dollars. Tomorrow I will try to take a photo of the water machine in our street. As I have lived in India and now in Thailand, water is our number one priority in our lives and I have a few more things to say about drinking water.
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