Work Week Lunch
October 10th, 2008
Deep-fried Beef on Silom Soi 5
After leaving the immigration lawyer’s office, where I was picking up paperwork for my Cambodia visa trip, I was starving and still a bit fuzzy-headed from yesterday’s marathon of drinking and smoking that started with lunch at the British Club Bangkok and ended at midnight with four night caps at an airy penthouse overlooking this sparkling city. At the food court on Silom Soi 5, I joined lunching legions of office workers, women in pencil skirts and men in collared shirts gather in twos and fours at long white tables slurping up noodle soups or sharing an Issan spread of fried chicken and papaya salad. The court, buzzing like a school cafeteria, houses a number of vendors selling cheap, fast lunches like spicy sauteed mussels, thin rice noodles with ground fish sauce and. I passed by a colorful khanom (Thai dessert) display and the lines of people in the front waiting their turn for deep-fried beef hacked to order at the entrance and headed for the roast duck stall. Rice was topped with sliced duck and topped with a thin, juicy duck gravy and cilantro. I added chilies and black vinegar and dug in.
Food Court on Silom Soi 5
Duck Over Rice at Food Court on Silom Soi 5
Eggs in Food Court on Silom Soi 5
Finished Noodle Bowl at Food Court on Silom Soi 5
Noodles with Fish Sauce and Eggs at Food Court on Silom Soi 5
Khanom at Food Court on Silom Soi 5
October 11th, 2008 at 1:03 am
I love reading about your adventures — both the writing and the pictures are so very, very good — and I can’t wait to follow in your footsteps.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Those lunches at the British Club can swallow one whole! Very enjoyable though…!