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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #465 on: August 29, 2019, 07:08:49 AM »
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Dinner for three at a street market in Chiang Mai including mango with sticky rice, two cokes and three bottles of water for about $5.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #466 on: August 29, 2019, 08:26:14 AM »
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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #467 on: August 29, 2019, 08:49:52 AM »
@GravitySucks - Forks? Really?

Most food is eaten with a spoon or the fingers. The forks tend to be used to push food onto the spoon. Chopsticks are used at some meals, especially for noodle dishes like pho-type dishes.  But yeah, I sneak in a forkful every once in awhile. I have nerve damage in my arms which makes chopsticks kind of clumsy if my neuropathy is acting wonky.

I am doing better than I expected. With the exception of two handfuls of Lays potato chips in the last week all I have eaten is Thai food or sushi. Eaten just about everything from just about everywhere. Except the bugs. I refuse to eat actual bugs. I did eat a tablespoon of spicy ant egg salad.

But no bugs. My friends have an affinity for silkworms. Not me.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #468 on: August 30, 2019, 07:06:44 AM »
Most food is eaten with a spoon or the fingers. The forks tend to be used to push food onto the spoon. Chopsticks are used at some meals, especially for noodle dishes like pho-type dishes.  But yeah, I sneak in a forkful every once in awhile. I have nerve damage in my arms which makes chopsticks kind of clumsy if my neuropathy is acting wonky.

I am doing better than I expected. With the exception of two handfuls of Lays potato chips in the last week all I have eaten is Thai food or sushi. Eaten just about everything from just about everywhere. Except the bugs. I refuse to eat actual bugs. I did eat a tablespoon of spicy ant egg salad.

But no bugs. My friends have an affinity for silkworms. Not me.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #469 on: August 30, 2019, 07:29:23 AM »
@GravitySucks Holy Cow! Do vegetarians eat fried insects? Are insects meat?

@FISH I don’t eat insects or vegetarians so you will have to seek your answer elsewhere. I’m guessing insects are not meat though they are rich in protein.
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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #470 on: August 30, 2019, 07:37:45 AM »
@FISH I don’t eat insects or vegetarians so you will have to seek your answer elsewhere. I’m guessing insects are not meat though they are rich in protein.
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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #471 on: August 30, 2019, 07:39:58 AM »
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Is anyone a vegetarian in Thailand?

I doubt there are many. I did see a veggie restaurant in Pai but Thais eat virtually everything that walks, crawls, flies or swims and some things that just lay there like mussels.
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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #472 on: September 03, 2019, 07:31:34 PM »
From today’s walk around Ko Samui neighborhood

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #473 on: September 03, 2019, 08:11:32 PM »
Dinner for three at a street market in Chiang Mai including mango with sticky rice, two cokes and three bottles of water for about $5.

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The Coke is the elephant in the room there. Other than that, delicious!

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« Reply #474 on: September 03, 2019, 10:29:29 PM »

This summer I grew a mini lawn for me and my cats. To my surprise and delight a bunch of tomato plants came up. Obviously the previous owner had a garden at one time. See my little green babies?

But also three of these plants that were planted in a nice row. Broad green leaves that turn brown at edges then die but then new leaves keep coming in. Stalk is dark red.  I am a clueless city girl and have no idea what they are. I really didn't want to yank them out until I knew what they were. I tried Google image recognition but didn't work. Anybody have an idea of what they are?

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #475 on: September 03, 2019, 10:35:14 PM »
From today’s walk around Ko Samui neighborhood

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I love plumeria. Beautiful fragrance. My neighbors have a plumeria "tree". Next time they cut it back I'm going to try to grow a cutting. The fringie things are really pretty. Your pics keep getting better and better
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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #476 on: September 06, 2019, 07:42:23 PM »
This summer I grew a mini lawn for me and my cats. To my surprise and delight a bunch of tomato plants came up. Obviously the previous owner had a garden at one time. See my little green babies?

But also three of these plants that were planted in a nice row. Broad green leaves that turn brown at edges then die but then new leaves keep coming in. Stalk is dark red.  I am a clueless city girl and have no idea what they are. I really didn't want to yank them out until I knew what they were. I tried Google image recognition but didn't work. Anybody have an idea of what they are?

Hi TL, those kind of look like hydrangea plants that are trying to come up from the roots, though I am puzzled why the leaves keep dying back.  Too much sun, perhaps?  They do best in a shaded spot.  Maybe the previous owner planted them there and didn't have any luck with them and cut them back?  Ha, I'm just throwing out some wild guesses.  Thanks for the pics.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #477 on: September 13, 2019, 08:22:28 PM »
Dragon fruit plants on my friend’s plantation

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soo cool! I've never seen the plant before - only the fruit! Thanks Gravity!
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« Reply #478 on: September 18, 2019, 12:28:41 PM »
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I was at a county fair last month when I spotted this unusual potted plant.  The label told me the name of it but I have forgotten what it was called.  Guess I should have wrote it down.

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« Reply #479 on: September 18, 2019, 02:31:02 PM »
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I was at a county fair last month when I spotted this unusual potted plant.  The label told me the name of it but I have forgotten what it was called.  Guess I should have wrote it down.

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