The markets and restaurants here will amaze you. First we can tackle showing/telling you about the restaurants. There are the most per capita of any place in the world.There have to be at least 3-4 on every street. Some are big, some very small and all of them with menus you can not read. Occasionally the menus are on the wall and you can point. Other times the english menus get pulled out and you try to figure out what they mean. Last night Dirk ordered squid and got cold rubber bands in a pickley kind of sauce. I had wonton soup. Great except the menu said fried noodles on top and they were not. We have had great cheap food though at the night market. Anyone who comes here will be treated to the night market. That will be a blog post in the future. The food in general I would say is quite bland. It is difficult to find tasty treats that are not simple spice hot. Hot does not mean taste in my books but we are new at this and do not know yet how to order or what to look for.
The market has lots of food at cheap prices and lots of people buying it. We have a market around the corner that we get veggies for salad- something that is never on a chinese menu- and fruits which are in abundance. There are ducks with their heads on fully cooked, of course, and live fish and frogs for the killing on the spot. There are weird fruit that you have never seen or at least I haven't and they taste like nothing. Please let the pictures speak the thousand words you will say after you see them.
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