What do your meals look like (show me pictures)....

acpgee

For Christmas Eve we ate at an Isaan restaurant in Koh Tao and got staples of charcoal grilled wings and green papaya salad. Rice and stir fried veg not pictured.

Some pineapple we bought on the street cut fancifully.

View from the hotel breakfast area with my asian breakfast of congee with pork balls.

SafariGalNYC

Feast of the Seven Fishes! 🎄
lobster
Eel
Salmon
Clams, cockles
Seafood salad - Calamari, Octopus, anchovy, blood orange, celery, lemon, tomato, onion
Broccoli rabe
Cauliflower
Berries with coconut cream

takinitalloff

@SafariGalNYC That looks scrumptious! Thanks for sharing 😊

1948CWB

Safari GAl ~ Totally agree with takinitalloff. Beautiful food and beautifully served.

acpgee

Christmas dinner in Koh Tao. Deep fried whole fish in SE Asia never disappoints. This was a red snapper deep fried then served swimming in a sweet caramel sauce with a ferocious dipping sauce on the side. Diners can choose how much caramel to use to temper the dipping sauce. We also had prawns stir fried with garlic and pepper and a som tam (=green papaya salad).

1948CWB

acpgee ~ That's a big fish.

acpgee

Dinner on our last night in Koh Tao. A local green called Langia leaf stir fried with egg was new to me. We also had chicken wings in tumeric, long beans with pork and a Tom Yum soup.

acpgee

Lunch was at an exceptionally good hole in the wall. I had pork noodle soup. Hubby’s chicken stir fried with garlic and black pepper doesn’t look exciting but was delicious and very tender. Freshly pureed mango and watermelon crushed ice smoothies not pictured. An excellent lunch for two was 6 quid.

acpgee

Got a snapshot of today’s fresh fish selection at the tourist trap BBQ we went to on our first night in Koh Tao. Fish was super fresh but cooking was meh.

acpgee

Lunch at Koh Samui airport was £25 and the most expensive meal in Thailand up to that point. Airports will always be rip offs. They did have the local veggie of Langia leaf which we had again stir fried with egg. Also had a green curry and deep fried pork belly garnished with slivers of deep fried lemongrass which were edible.

acpgee

We arrived late at night in Bangkok from the islands where I booked a hotel in Thonglor, a neighbourhood popular with Japanese expats. Neighbourhood chosen because it is next to the highway going to the international airport where we have an early morning flight home soon. The restaurant closest to the hotel still open was a Izakaya place. Despite it being foreign food we had the usual “illiterate in Asia” challenge.

acpgee

Today’s lunch of pork noodle soup in a humble local restaurant catering to office workers. Our second hotel in Bangkok just prior to the flight home is in a posh neighbourhood where there are no hole in the walls (restaurants with an open shutter with no doors or windows). Still good and cheap at 80 baht.

acpgee

Somehow the neighbourhood of our new hotel in Bangkok has more foreign restaurants than Thai restaurants. Our last dinner in Thailand was Chinese food.

takinitalloff

Kebda Eskandarani with tahini sauce, I think I got this idea from you @SafariGalNYC ? The liver was pretty good but the salata baladi had waaay too much raw onion for my taste (and that’s after I adjusted it way down). My bad, I know I need to go easy on the raw onion.

Somehow the meal ended up tasting bitter, even though none of the three components tasted bitter on their own. Life is full of surprises 🤪

I assume this would have been much tastier eaten with bread, as they do in Egypt. But I’m not eating bread for the time being, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

SafariGalNYC

takinitalloff wrote: »

Kebda Eskandarani with tahini sauce, I think I got this idea from you @SafariGalNYC ? The liver was pretty good but the salata baladi had waaay too much raw onion for my taste (and that’s after I adjusted it way down). My bad, I know I need to go easy on the raw onion.

Somehow the meal ended up tasting bitter, even though none of the three components tasted bitter on their own. Life is full of surprises 🤪

I assume this would have been much tastier eaten with bread, as they do in Egypt. But I’m not eating bread for the time being, so 🤷🏻‍♀️

@takinitalloff yes probably guilty haha. This looks awesome! Hmm thinking on why it could be bitter.. maybe the cucumber? 🥒

Love seeing this!! 🤗

takinitalloff

SafariGalNYC wrote: »

@takinitalloff yes probably guilty haha. This looks awesome! Hmm thinking on why it could be bitter.. maybe the cucumber? 🥒

I really don't know! It wasn't any single ingredient, it was a combo of something -- liver+salad, or salad+sauce, or liver+sauce? Or maybe all three together? I couldn't for the life of me figure out what happened to create bitterness. Reminds me of that time many years ago when I added kiwi to yogurt... terribly bitter, don't mix kiwi with dairy

Do you have a go-to recipe for Kebda Eskandarani? I would like to try again sometime.

earlybirdlady

acpgee

Breakfast at Bangkok airport of Isaan food. I attempted to eat one of those whole deep fried chilli’s which had indeed mellowed but not enough for the attempt to go well.

JamesMason9223

Hot Honey Glazed Chicken Thighs on Roasted Green Beans with Smoked Cheese Creamy Pasta
Planned this the day before but came down with a cold and my chicken was already marinating for 24 hours by that point so had to make it, but it still came out pretty good.
1233 calories, 67g Protein.
I really only eat 1 meal a day to meet my caloric goals, this allows me to eat alot of tasty food, just with large gaps of time between them, but knowing i'm getting something good instead of fast food slop or non-appetizing "health food" makes it easy to hold out. Also it's like the only way I feel I can get a good portion of vegetables in my diet.

acpgee

Airplane food. The Bangkok/London service of Eva Air (budget Taiwanese airline) and the Bangkok Airways Koh Samui/Bangkok service, both in Economy.