Bangkok

Hello! This week I am excited to talk about my favorite food which I have tried so far here in Bangkok. For starters, a food which I would eat every day if I could is fried chicken with yellow curry and rice! Now I know what you might think, why curry? Even though I personally don't know much about the origin of curry, I usually think about Indian food whenever someone mentions curry. If you are the same way, you might be wondering why I am eating curry in Thailand. Well, for whatever reason, curry is actually super popular in Thailand. You can find curry and chicken in almost every menu of Thai food. After doing some research, I found that Thailand actually has its own set of "Thai curries." There is green curry, red curry, and yellow curry, these three are the most popular kind of curries in Thailand. The difference between them is the core ingredients that make the curry its color. I'm not too sure how original curry is supposed to taste like, but the curry h...

Hello! Living in Bangkok is definitely much different than living in Baltimore County. These differences are what has changed me to become a more adventurous person who is willing to try new things. For starters, I have never personally liked cities or night time. Being from Baltimore, and frequenting New York City often, I have never really liked walking around or hanging out in the cities at night. For me, night time has always been "stay at home time." While you may argue that these sentiments are justified with me being from Baltimore, I also don't necessarily feel safe at night in Manhattan either, even though it is considered a safe city in comparison. In Bangkok however, for whatever reason, I do feel pretty safe walking in the streets at night, and I actually quite enjoy it. This is probably because the streets in Bangkok are always really lively, but especially at night once everyone is off work. The streets are lit with the glow of the many food stands a...

Hello! This week, I'm going to compare my hometown of Baltimore, to my new, current home of Bangkok. For starters, I need to state the obvious, Bangkok and Baltimore are two COMPLETELY different cities. To begin with, they are on completely opposite sides of the globe. While Baltimore lies in the Western hemisphere, in North America, Bangkok resides in the Eastern hemisphere, in Asia. Bangkok is a huge city with an area of 606 square miles. Even though I have always considered Baltimore to be a "big" city, compared to Bangkok, it is tiny. Baltimore is only 90.28 square miles and has a population of 618, 493, while Bangkok's population is 8.281 MILLION. Baltimore does not compare to Bangkok at all in population or size. This can easily be seen when you wander outside in any city. Bangkok is constantly bustling and moving, while Baltimore seems like a dead town compared to Bangkok. In the southeast Asian city, people are out and about working or selling food, unt...