Rice Grains

Last night Candice, Anita, and I went into Bangkok for foot massages, then went out to eat at Charlie Brown's, a Mexican food restaurant downtown. We thoroughly enjoyed our meals of enchiladas, tostadas, and chimichangas. As most of you already know, I usually ask for a box because I can't eat everything. Well, last night I SHOULDN'T have eaten everything, but I DID!:)

Then along came the manager, and what a character he was! He was trying to talk us into dessert, and in the process, Candice happened to mention we were celebrating two birthdays. So, off he went, returning with 3 shot glasses of tequila--expensive tequila! We sat there laughing, not knowing quite what to do.

Mr. Manager proceeded to sit down on the bench with us and did a toast, telling us to down it in one shot. Which he did; the rest of us took a small sip and set our glasses on the table. He looked at us, incredulous, and said, "Didn't I say to down this in one gulp? Come on, don't tell me you don't drink. You aren't MISSIONARIES, are you?! You ARE, aren't you?!!!!"

Well, he didn't let that stop him from showing us the ice cream menu, which contained ice creams of various alcoholic drink flavors. He told us these were only 5 % alcohol, so that should be OK.:) And he let us pick out two flavors (since it wasn't Candice's birthday, she didn't get to choose any--just share ours), which he then brought to us for free, since we refused his expensive tequila! The two flavors we chose were rum raisin and toffee vanilla vodka or somethink like that.

Talk about exotic ice cream flavors! It was super delicious, and no, I didn't wake up with a hangover this morning!:) I think I might very well have if I had downed that whole shot of tequila, though. My one sip burned all the way down.

Here is our generous friend

Interesting side note: This guy claims that the two weekends before and during the Thailand elections, when the government banned drinking alcoholic beverages, people came to his restaurant and ordered these special ice cream flavors like mad. Things that make you go hmmm....