Rice Grains

OK, that's my name for what I ate for lunch today. I ate at a little Chinese restaurant with some of the people from the church where I teach English. They had some new types of food for me to try, including some sort of red drink made from a flower, little pork-filled wontons, and the above-mentioned soup. I call it "supreme" because they told me the pork parts included in the broth were lung, heart, liver, esophagus, and stomach. There may have been one or two others as well. It really was tasty, though I could have done without the lungs.

Me, Mon, and Elle

Tonight, as I was going out the door to buy supper, Kitti, the apartment manager, called me back in to the office. He and his wife and sons were ready to eat supper, and they invited me to eat with them. OH MY, last week they gave Anita and me cow man guy, and now they want to feed me AGAIN???

But I agreed, and they had an excellent meal of rice, barbecued duck, and fried pork throat (thin, crispy strips of delicious pork). Because I was expecting to make a quick run out and back to my room, I did not have my camera with me, hence no pictures.:)

They had 2 bottles of wine sitting on the desk; they were apparently gifts to the office help from Ruung's boss. Kitti wanted me to figure out where the wines came from, as the info was not written in Thai. Well, the one bottle I could read; it came from Australia. The other bottle I think came from Spain or Italy; at least the language looked that way, but no English.

Then he wanted me to see what year they were made. Again, the Australian bottle had the year 2004 clearly displayed, but I could see nothing resembling a year listed on the other bottle. Then I discovered why Kitti wanted to know; he wanted to give the better quality bottle to Sommai, the apartment owner. Hmmmm, I wonder which one he will decide is better.:)