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Originally Posted by zehner
please allow me dearest tc....
if you wish to spend your days in thailand eating noodles and issan food from street stalls please do so. we would love some dedicated reviews of your 30 baht feasts on here...
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With no disrespect to the erstwhile and (I'm sure) fabulously coutured TC, I cannot let that thrown gauntlet lay idle. Here then, is WilliamBlake's Digestable Diary...
The cafeteria at my not-quite-greystone University is a short and not unpleasant walk from my offit. The queue for the Southern Thai influenced pre-fab home made dishes is long, but if one is not ordering a-la-carte, one can skip the queue and order a chef's special of cleavered pork (complete with crackling) and Isaan sausage over a rather bland but comforting rice. Sliced cucumber is provided, as is a delectable tangy dark red sauce of unknown origin, to drizzle over the medallions of meat. A further, very generous helping of home made soy and chilli sauce is provided, to give the rice more piquancy. The wine list is somewhat lacking, but this patron chose to partake of a cheeky little Coke poured over free ice in a tall plastic tumbler. Said beverage introduced aggressively onto the palatte and followed with bubbly, carbonated charm, to a syrupy finish.
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plein-air setting was somewhat hampered by an unusually large number of quite persistent flies on this particular day, and two dogs fought rather too audibly among the tables. One also noticed a lack of any sort of dinner music. The babble of one's fellow diners was relatively melodious however, and the patrons were of the young and shiny crowd, whom one hopes to be surrounded by in these types of nosheries.
I shall certainly make a point of dining there again. Probably tomorrow. And the next day. And the day after that. And the day after that...
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Bon Appetite!
~ WB
(Your alternate culinary correspondent...)