I would like to wish everybody a very Happy Thanksgiving; both Americans and non-American alike ('cause I don't discriminate). I am very thankful for my awesome parents, cool sibs, and great family in general. I am also thankful that my travels have been easy and adventurous so far and that my health has stayed pretty good (well an extra shout out to Mr. Fleming for discovering Penicillin is needed for that!). In honor of Thanksgiving my celebratory meal was as native as I could get and as much as my stomach ... well would stomach. I had Khmer Curry. I must say Khmer Curry is the best darn curry not only in Cambodia, but I would even dare to say anywhere! On the subject of food I would like to go over my best food discoveries in SE Asia:- Bananas - so sweet you would think they were grown in a candy store
- Bananas - esp. when they are piping hot
- Banana Shakes - nothing better when you are hot and hungry
- Banana Pancakes (aka Rotti) - Talk to anybody who has been in Thailand or Laos and they know what I am talking about! Its a greasy conglomerate of goodness smothered in chocolate.
- Pad Thai - Tried it with bananas but it just does not work :(. Best place for Pad Thai: a small whole-in-the-wall restaurant in Bangkok.
- Fried rice with Chicken - always a dependable fall back.
- Khmer Curry - yeah, it is just that good if you can get over the natural inhibition to have BOTH rice AND potato in the same dish!! Gasp... I know... how 1990's!
If there is such thing as banana poisoning, I am definitely at risk!
Oh - I got caught going off on a tangent and did not finish my beating story from P^2. Well...I just wanted to share my joy of discovering huge fried cockroaches with ya'll. To do so I was planning on taking a picture. Well...I made the mistake of being a nice tourist and I asked if I could take a picture. As soon as the word photo left my lips... and the stall lady saw the camera in my hand she went crazy. It is like the word + the camera created some bad chemical reaction in her head and she started punching me and spitting on the ground and a whole slew of other stuff. I was paralyzed by this reaction. I did not know whether to laugh or cry or fight back or maybe just snap the picture and run! In the end I did the sensible thing and just walked away. Should have taken the picture though....
Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!
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Hi Hannah,
Thanks for the Thanksgiving good wishes. Hope you are enjoying the holiday with some new found friends and some different unusual food. I will be experiencing my first taste of Tofu turkey, new to me. Aunt Marjorie's meal is strictly veggie. I'm making the marshmallow sweet potatoes so there will be something familiar. Sorry you had the run in with the crazy lady in Cambodia. She probably just wanted to be paid to have her picture taken. I'll be home Sunday night. Much love, Nanz
Happy Thanksgiving to you Hannah! Sounds like you are having fun. It was funny to read about that crazy lady not wanting her picture taken. Have a Happy and Safe Holiday!! I love reading your journey!! :)
Hey Hannah-Bannanah.
Now I know were that name comes from! No banana bread overthere?
That fat turkey made me hungry for our dinner to come. Hope it will be w/o feathers though. Although Kmer Curry sounds delisioso too, you got the receipe? And what you talking about...Penicillin? Why did you need that for: maybe the market-mama hit you too hard on your head with a giant deepfried centipede? That violent behavior does not sit well with your Mother! Just run like a Forest Gump.(After taking that picture).
Lots of love, your Mom
I hope you had a good Thanksgiving day. Hope and Cara were with us for a couple of days. They return to school today. We are right behind them as we have tickets to the game tomorrow. So we leave early in the morning and return Sunday. Reed spent the holiday in Boston and he went to some friends house for some turkey.
Your last few blogs are great. You are certainly seeing and doing a lot. I would like to try that curry you speak of. I'm reading this morning a storm is heading for Vietnam. Probably good you are heading out of there.
Keep having fun and learning some on the way.
jim
im thankful for you too, cool sister baloney. though overshadowed by my undeniable greatness, you turned out pretty darn cool-io.
oh! and she attacked you because she thought you were stealing a part of her soul. Havent you seen zoolander?
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