foreign affair
i was with my family in thailand around this time last year. we were typical american tourists and decided to get a tour guide and have him bring us to all the exotic places. we stopped at this restaraunt because my brother needed some american food. we must have been their only customers that month because we were all alone in the banquet hall and their entire staff came out to serve us. all 20 of them. we looked at the menu, and sure enough it had great american classics like grilled calimari and lime milkshakes.

i decided to go for safety and order a cheeseburger, and my brother followed suit. when he gave his order however the team of waiters giggled and confessed they only had one left. i challanged him to rock, paper, scissors and won out. he went with a chicken sandwich. ordering drinks went on in much the same way, i order a coke and he does to only to be told that they've run out. so he ordered a daquiri.

while waiting for our food (which with a team of waiters like we had, you'd think it'd come out within the hour) there was a pretty pathetic live band. it consisted of a hot thai woman doing kareoke and a man, near death, accompanying on the violin. during the performance the girl would shriek and scream to 80s pop songs, and the violinist would fall asleep. they got really into it.

my brother chicken sandwich came out looking pretty good, so i was excited about my thai burger. when i saw it I suddenly became ill. it was covered in a thick layer of grease and could barely be recognized as beef (because it was yellow). i was still pretty hungry so i tucked in. it was the stringiest, grossest burger i've ever tasted. eventually i found out it was because the beef there is fed with rice and is worked until death.


mmmm.... thai food
(Baron von Aaron CHARGE!, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 16:38, Reply)