A Singaporean's guide to living in Thailand

[Froggy]

Try to eat more often at home so this morning steamed chee cheong fan with black coffee

Wonderful breakfast

 

[Froggy]

Lunch I cooked steamed eggs with minced pork.

 

[Charlie99]

Hello [froggy]
Happy Lunar New Year.
I am glad that our doctor discovered your artery blockage soon enough to take remedial steps.
Please take steps to change your diet, reduce and thereafter stop smoking, as well as significantly reduce the consumption of alcohol.
My usual breakfast: an orange, a banana, spinach omelet, two slices of whole wheat toast with peanut butter, coffee.
Today's lunch: cucumber, tomatoes, avocado, and left over home made borscht.

 

[Charlie99]

[Froggy]
Please try to avoid deep fried food.

 

[Froggy]

 

[Froggy]

Samakon market opens only on Saturday and Sunday. The stalls were moved to a carpark under temporary tents for a year and last weekend they just shifted back to the newly build structure on the old location.

Some stalls are still not opened

Food stalls

After doing the weekly marketing, went to this kway-chap stall for breakfast

Sitting

Ordered one with clear soup

and another with soya sauce

 

[Froggy]

Spent a night in a hospital near home for sleep test

The view from the huge window

The room

Bathroom

Was served this for dinner

Rice and omelette

Tom-Ka-Gai (Thai galangal chicken coconut soup)

Total cost 16,000 baht ($645) and take 7 days for results.

 

[Froggy]

Although I missed the Chinese New Year celebration with family nevertheless I got the all clear from doctor to travel so on 4th day of CNY I went to Singapore to attend a party the next day

The Singapore Airlines lounge was nicely decorated

Had a cappuccino and some chwee kueh

Meatball cabbage soup

Toast with butter and coconut jam

Finally time to leave

Served meesiam for breakfast

 

[Froggy]

One night in Singapore 5 of us went to this shop to have dinner

Many customers came to celebrate the CNY with friends and family

Sambal kangkong

Marmite chicken

Braised tofu with mushrooms

Long beans with dry shrimps

Cereal prawns

Fish head curry

Yam ring

It was a great dinner celebrating CNY with friends

You notice alcohol was absent, I've basically stopped drinking

 

[Froggy]

One morning the 3 of us decided to visit the Redhill market for breakfast. We had the kwaychap from this stall:

That was really good kwaychap

We also tried the popular minced pork mushroom noodle from this stall

 

[Froggy]

Still on topic of Singapore. A friend brought me to Joo Chiat to buy Kim Choo's bak-chang, he told me opposite Kim Choo has a very good char kway teow so we went.

There was a queue

Auntie char kway teow first time I see

Have to say its the best I've had so far

 

[Froggy]

This morning visited the Sammakorn weekend market again this is how it looks like



Today saw the market management organise Buddhist prayers for new opening of the market.

This is our breakfast after marketing

 

[Froggy]

Had to visit 2 doctors early yesterday so afer drawing blood for test had an hour to wait went breakfast at the hospital's Starbucks

Breakfast

Club sandwich

Mushroom Chicken Pie

 

[Froggy]

Kanom-jeen is a type of boiled soft rice noodles that is very popular in Thailand. It is normally eaten with different types of curries.

This is kanom-jeen

Just this week I discovered a kanom-jeen shop near my home (4-5km)

Open shop

Pots of different curry

Free salad (first time I seen such a big spread for free)

My lunch/dinner

Ordered green curry with chicken

and coconut fishballs curry

Thai fish cakes made from catfish meat and lots of Thai herbs

My salad

 

[Froggy]

Went to a nice Thai restaurant in Promenade Mall for lunch near home

Egg plant with minced pork and Thai herbs

Sweet pork

Seabass with Thai herbs

Fried cabbage with fish sauce

Stir fry wide rice noodle with soya sauce

Krapow minced pork rice

Lunch spread

 

[Froggy]

Tonight's dinner at home I cooked fish curry with spanish mackeral, eggplant, okra, tomatoes, onions and curry leaves

Simple dinner

These roti prata from frozen pack bought at local supermarket

Put them together

 

[Froggy]

Mayong-chit (mariam plum) is at the end of the season now, this season I think I ate quite a bit

The maid cut some for me tonight after the dinner

 

[Leongsam]

Mayong-chit (mariam plum) is at the end of the season now, this season I think I ate quite a bit

The maid cut some for me tonight after the dinner

How's all the bloodwork? Hope you're feeling fit and healthy the food still looks just as yummy.