Tuesday 12th September

It's been a while since I wrote in my blog but life here moves slowly and there's not much to report.
I've taken a few photos that will interest me in time to come and here they are.

Thursday 31st August

                                

We did a little shopping and amongst what I might call "snack beverages", next to the coconut water, where the inevitable range of cannabis drinks.

We bought these two for ~AUD1.90 each.

They both tasted like they were based on lawn clippings.
By the way "roselle" is Thai for hibiscus, and no, there was no euphoric effect whatsoever. 

That night we decided to eat at the little Indian restaurant, Karan Cafe Indian Food, based in our complex. We rarely see anyone in there and we wonder how they, like the multitude of the other seemingly always empty eateries, manage to survive.

We had three non-English speaking guys hover around us as soon as we entered.

One was definitely Indian and seemed like an/the owner, another was the waiter, which I surmised because he was carrying a pen and small notebook and the 3rd guy from his food spattered shirt was probably the chef.

Thankfully the menu was in English and after some pointing, smiling and head nodding we ordered what you see below. 

Yes, the beer had ice in it, and for a change (or maybe we're just getting use to this really Thai way of serving beer) it was quite OK. The potato samosas were strangely void of any potato,
but were full of a really delicious lentil concoction.

Garlic naan, yellow lentil daal and chicken korma.
All really nice, even if the portions were very small.

The whole night cost us AUD31.

This is not a lot in AUD but here in Thailand you can get a LOT of food and beer for that amount of money, if you are a little selective about where you eat.

Friday 1st September

I took this pic of Tiz to get the two guys next to her their bike in the shot.
In most places on earth two people wearing balaclavas on a 37°C day would be worrisome,
but this is Thailand so keep calm and keep on walking.

We went to the Cicada Market for dinner.
It has a lot of food stalls at reasonable prices.
These night markets are very popular in Thailand and well worth seeking out the good ones.

We called the two buildings above "The Twin Towers"

We walked past them at twice every day, and often at night.

As it's easier to tell if places are occupied at night we would often have good look to see how many lights, if any, were on as we strolled down the beach in the relatively cool of the evenings.

This night we spotted 4 apartments with lights on.

So that's 4 out of 144 apartments with people in them.

Less than 3% occupancy.

Tiz walking along the beach close the Twin Towers

It's not odd to see Thais bringing their cats to the beach, but his was really funny.
The guy was telling us that he had brought this little felline to the beach to teach him how to swim since he was a little kitten. The puss didn't seem to mind one bit.

Sunday 3rd September

The internet is a useful tool AND it's capable of confusing you and misleading by supplying and overload of choices.

Choosing where to eat based on reviews which rarely, or arrogantly, take into account the reader's personal, and subjective, taste is a prime example.

I laugh (inside) until it hurts when I hear someone ask "How spicy is it?" or request to have a dish, which is generally known to be spicy, to be made mild. Yeah, but nah.

But, I digress, yet again.

After our disappointing seafood "feast" at Lung Ja, which was lauded as one of the best seafood restaurants in Hua Hin, according to the aggregated results from the internet, we choose to try one of the others a little further down the ladder.

For Father's Day (on the Australia calendar) we went to Chaolay Seafood

Tiz has reluctantly succumbed to drinking beer.
She says Leo is not bad. I don't think she's that enamored with it
but it's easier to get than a good G&T and a lot cheaper. 

It's at the end of a pier, as you see from the main part of the restaurant behind me.

We over ordered, AGAIN!

At this point we had had two "appetisers", which were massive.

And the final two dishes arrived. It was struggle but as it was all seafood, and really tasty, 

I mustered my best inner glutton and drank and ate through the lot.

AUD70 later, which was a fair price for the quality and quantity of food we ate,

 we were out on the street waiting for our Grab car to take us home.