Bangkok

Hello! By far the food smell that I associate most with Bangkok, is the smell of either meat cooking or being freshly cooked. Meat is an absolute must in almost every Thai meal, so you are likely to find it anywhere and everywhere. As you walk down any main street in Bangkok, you are likely to pass many many food stalls. If you pay attention, well, even if you don't pay attention you'll notice that most of these sell meat. I would say that close to 80-90% of all food stalls sell some kind of meat, either it's pork, or chicken, or beef, or duck, or fish. I would say that maybe fish and chicken might be the most popular options. In other words, if you don't want to get hungry, I recommend staying in your house or dorm all day because if you leave your safe-hold, you will smell the aroma of meat and get hungry. The smell of meat affects everyone, no matter if you're vegan or vegetarian. I can say this as a fact because my older who is vegan actually came to vis...

Hello! This week I'm going to be talking about the differences I have noticed between American food and Thai food.  For starters, before coming to Thailand, I always joked with my family and friends that I would gain "so much weight," over in Thailand because of how much I love to eat. When I happened to check my weight maybe two months into my study abroad experience, however, I was shocked and obviously happy that my weight had stayed the same. "It's probably because the food here is so healthy," I remember my friend saying. Hmmm is it though? After living and eating in Bangkok for the past four months, I can say that I'm not sure if the food is healthier, or just more fresh (which could be considered "healthier" I guess). When you walk down any street, the food stalls there are always bursting with fresh vegetables ready to be used. The vegetables used in some of the food are hand-grown by farmers and then sent to these food stalls, whic...

Hello! This week I'm going to talk about the local's favorite food! For starters, Thai people absolutely love their meat. I would even dare say that you can find raw meat or meat being cooked in 90% of the food stalls that line the streets. Leaving my campus, there is a street that is fully packed with food stalls and outdoor restaurants. Whenever I walk through there, there is meat hanging and being displayed everywhere. Cooked chicken and duck bodies hang from stalls, and drawers hold pieces of meet, big and small. Specifically though. Thai people love selling small pieces of meat on a stick, kind of like a kebab or skewer. They mainly sell beef and chicken skewers. There's really no way to distinguish between beef and pork skewers without tasting them, however, due to my observations, I assume that they don't each much pork in Bangkok. Thai people sell kebabs, as in sticks with both meat and vegetables, and they also sell just meat on the stick. You can get t...