ต้มจืดเต้าหู้หมูสับ

The photo shows ต้มจืดเต้าหู้หมูสับ which I had at a restaurant on Pattaya Sai 3 Road (Thai: ถ. พัทยาสาย 3).  ต้มจืดเต้าหู้หมูสับ is like a kind of Thai clear soup (Thai: ต้มจืด) with Tofu (Thai: เต้าหู้) and minced pork (Thai: หมูสับ). It's hard to explain what Tofu (Thai: เต้าหู้) is, but it's a sort of very soft ingredient tastes plain, can be found in many kinds of Asian soup like ต้มจืดเต้าหู้หมูสับ. In my photo, you'll find Tofu at a clock position of around 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock. Yep, they are Tofu, and is an excellent food for your health. So I'm told.

ยำวุ้นเส้นหมูสับ : Yum Woon Sen Moosap

The photo shows Yum Woon Sen Moosap (also spelled as:  Yam Wun Sen Moosap, Thai: ยำวุ้นเส้นหมูสับ) which I had at a restaurant on Central Pattaya Road in Pattaya, Thailand. Yum Woon Sen (Thai: ยำวุ้นเส้น) is kind of like a spicy Thai salad with a kind of Thai noodles. Moosap (Thai: หมูสับ) means minced pork. The Thai noodles, Woon Sen (Thai: วุ้นเส้น) looks like semi-transparent noodles, so it's often translated as Thai glass noodles. I thought the translation was just right, but when I said the word "glass noodles" to my English acquaintance, he said it sounded strange. Did it? Forgive me. Then I was told the other word to describe Woon Sen (Thai: วุ้นเส้น) in English, but I've forgotten. Totally. What would you say?

Count me in, too

I took this photo in front of an Isan place on Naklua Road (Thai: ถ. นาเกลือ) in North Pattaya, Thailand. I found this Isan place while I was walking onto Naklua Road. I was just taking a stroll around the area, but meanwhile I was doing a bit of ground research to find a nice place for my arrival night's dinner (with a cold one, of course). Then I found there. Some locals were loitering around the place and waiting for their dinner to go, some other locals were sitting at the tables and enjoying to have dinner there. It looked like a nice place, not only that but, it was totally a nice place for authentic Isan food. I miss the taste even now.

Use stairs instead of a lift

I took this photo on a stairway of a hotel in Pattaya, Thailand. I got back to the hotel from the nightlife centre and I was right on the way to my room on the second floor. Of course there was a lift, but my room was on the second floor, so I preferred to use stairs instead of a lift. Even though I was getting tipsy off of bottles of Singha and was stuffed with yummy spicy Thai cuisine, I used the stairs. Meanwhile, I took a photo of the interior wall decoration. That wall was at the half landing between the ground floor and the second floor.

เส้นใหญ่ผัดขี้เมากุ้ง : Thai Drunken Noodles

The photo shows เส้นใหญ่ผัดขี้เมากุ้ง (Pronounce: Sen Yai Pad Kee Mao Koong) which I had at my favourite British Pub on Soi 7, in Pattaya, Thailand. The British Pub on Pattaya Soi 7 is the place where you can grab a pint of European beer (Let's say Guinness and then some) with your choice of authentic Thai food. Of course many kinds of European food and pub grubs are available. Pad Kee Mao (ผัดขี้เมา) is a kind of Thai food well known as Drunken Noodles. Literally, เส้นใหญ่ means Thai wide rice noodles, ผัด means still-fried, ขี้เมา means a person who is drunk, กุ้ง means prawns. Drunken Noodles is getting popular amongst Europeans, so you'll see สปาเก็ตตี้ผัดขี้เมา at some places in Thailand. In that case, the chef use spaghetti (Thai: สปาเก็ตตี้) instead of Thai noodles then they cook a special Drunken Noodles.

ทอดมันปลา

The photo shows Tod Man Pla (Thai: ทอดมันปลา) which I had at an eatery on Naklua Road (Thai: ถ. นาเกลือ) in North Pattaya, Thailand. It was New Year's Eve 2016 - 2017 and I was on vacation. I started the evening with a cold bottle of Singha and Tod Man Pla (Thai: ทอดมันปลา). They are one of my all-time favourite match. Tod Man Pla is normally translated as Thai fishcakes and is usually served with some Thai dipping sauce. The taste of dipping sauces are wildly different depending on the restaurant or what you may ask.

On the beaten path

I took this photo at a sort of Night Market in Central Pattaya, Thailand. I was taking a stroll around right in the middle of Central Pattaya. The area was exactly one of the major beaten paths of the city, and was packed with night owls. Compare to some other "Night Market" or "Night Bazaar" in Pattaya, that night market where the photo shows was a tad of smaller one, but I believe that you'll see the atmosphere or something else through the photo. I love to shop around in Pattaya, Thailand, so if I notice there's a kind of market around there, I'll drop by anyway.

Dolphin Circle, Pattaya, Thailand

I took this photo at so-called Dolphin Circle (Thai: วงเวียนโลมา) in North Pattaya, Thailand. It's a sort of landmark of North Pattaya due to a fountain with a dolphin statue in the middle of the busy roundabout. Dolphin Circle and its fountain is located at the roundabout where North Pattaya Road (Thai: ถ. พัทยาเหนือ), Pattaya Beach Road (a.k.a. Pattaya Sai 1, Thai: ถ. พัทยาสาย 1), Pattaya 2nd Road (a.k.a. Pattaya Sai 2, Thai: ถ. พัทยาสาย 2) , and Naklua Road (Thai: ถ. นาเกลือ) meet together. I took this photo around sunset after having a good time at a Belgian pub on Naklua Road.

TG660 BKK - HND; May 2017; Cashew Nuts

The photo shows a pack of Cashew Nuts which was served as an in-flight welcome snack of Thai Airways International flight TG660 Bangkok, Thailand to Haneda, Tokyo (BKK - HND) in May 2017. The pack of cashew nuts was served together with a paper napkin. THAI's 57th anniversary was indicated by a cool logo on the paper napkin and the logo was coloured in TG purple.  It was about a five and a half-hour flight. I completed to watch two Thai romantic comedy films via my personal in-seat touch screen, but there wasn't much time left to complete the third film. Well, I shall watch this space.

Banana smoothie: นำ้กล้วยปั่น

I took this photo while I was enjoying a hot lazy afternoon in Pattaya, Thailand. I sat in a cozy cafe on Soi Buakhao and ordered Thai banana smoothie (Thai: นำ้กล้วยปั่น, Pronounce : Nam Kluay Pun). The photo shows exactly what I ordered and I wanted at that moment. My very first experience of Thai banana smoothie was at a restaurant in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. From the first sip of นำ้กล้วยปั่น, I realised that I really love it and I continue to order it when I'm in Thailand. กล้วย means banana in Thai, by the way.

ผัดกระเพราหมูสับ : Pad Krapao Moosap

The photo shows ผัดกระเพราหมูสับ (Pronounce: Pad Krapao Moosap) which I had at a local eatery in Pattaya, Thailand. ผัดกระเพราหมูสับ is often translated as stir-fried minced pork with Thai basil. หมูสับ means minced pork. ผัดกระเพรา (Pronounce: Pad Krapao) is one of the very popular recipes in Thailand, can be cooked with your favourite ingredients. For example, ผัดกระเพราไก่ (Pronounce: Pad Krapao Gai) is also my favourite. ไก่ means chicken, so ผัดกระเพราไก่  is like stir-fried chicken with Thai basil.

Breakfast under the sun umbrellas

I took this photo at a hotel's terrace restaurant in North Pattaya, Thailand. When my accommodation plan includes breakfast, I enjoy breakfast at the hotel's restaurant. That morning I realised that the restaurant also had some tables in terrace, and there were some large sun umbrellas to create shadows. I automatically thought that they looked cute and wanted to have breakfast under the large sun umbrellas. So I did so, and luckily I didn't forget to take a photo of them. The hotel was on Pattaya Soi 3, and it was about a hundred meters walk to the beach.

Viewing tropical water through palm trees

I took this photo in Pattaya, Thailand. It's a bit of an old photo in a way, but I'd say viewing the tropical bay of Pattaya through palm trees or kind of like that would be the same old same old. I love to walk onto Pattaya Beach Road and boardwalk. Some beach venders sell coconuts, so you can taste coconut water (a.k.a. coconut juice) if you want to. Coconut water means น้ำมะพร้าว (Pronounce : Nam Maprao) in Thai. When I traveled to Thailand for the third time in my life, I already knew the word น้ำมะพร้าว, because I love it. Time went by, and as of today I've been to Thailand 33 times, and counting. I really love Thailand.