Taste Bud Adventures - Special Noodle Soup

This one would have been more appropriate around Halloween, but I figured that since I can't have a good Thanksgiving dinner, maybe I can at least spoil it for everyone else back home :-). J/K but this really is gross.

Today I went out for noodles with the guys and gals at work. They took me to a noodle shop (pretty standard) and I got noodle soup with pork...or so I thought. They kept telling me that there was something special about the soup, and that they would tell me when I had finished eating it so that I wouldn't lose my appetite. It kinda worked...since I've eaten the same soup probably 4 or 5 times in the past.
Anyways, after I finished I got the surprise. The soup is pretty normal (noodles, broth, some chunks of pork and veggies) but added to this soup is a healthy spoonful of pig blood. See exhibit B below. It starts out fresh like this, but it curdles when they boil it in the soup so you can see the little blood floaties. Before going back to work, I washed it down with Ice Cream in a Hot Dog bun. Nothing is strange to me now.

Phi Mai - Cultural Show

This weekend we went with some friends to see the light and sound show at Phi Mai. Phi Mai is a city in Thailand and home of 1000 year old ruins (we visited these ruins when we first moved to Thailand). Every year they put on a big cultural show with lights, fireworks, dancers, Thai boxers...pretty much all things Thai! They also have a huge market where you can buy different styles of Thai foods and goods from around the country.
Gao, Bpu and Terry - I go to Fitness First with Bpu and Terry and Gao is an old school friend of Bpu's who was great and showed us around!

Chris fanning himself in the extreme heat...it's only been cool 2 days so far this "winter" in Thailand!

Nai (my trainer at Fitness First), his wife Jaeng, Bpu, Terry and Me