Thursday, February 12, 2009

Festival at Wat Chalong

There was a HUGE festival at Wat Chalong – our nearby Buddhist temple. The festival was a fundraiser. There were tons of booths selling just about everything, stages with live entertainment, and carnival type games.

The highlight was finding a pair of flip-flops to fit my swollen, injured foot for 20 Baht (about 60 cents). The woman that I bought them from asked what had happened to my foot. In Thai, I explained about the accident and our injuries. She took my hand from my crutches and gave me a hand and arm massage as we stood there. It was such a sweet, spontaneous gesture!

Also, since we weren't in our own community/neighborhood, it was a little more comfortable to act like a tourist and take tons of pictures. There are some great pictures below of the types of booths that we see at our local markets every week.

Entrance of Wat Chalong


Food on a Stick

This was a booth that we don't see at our neighborhood market. INSECTS!

Mealworms, beetles, crickets, roaches, grasshoppers, and more...

Three cooked and seasoned grasshoppers on a spoon...

... that went into Tré's mouth.
He also tried a few crickets.
How did they taste? "Crunchy."


Workers cleaning off the bamboo sections that are stuffed with sticky rice.

"Kao Laam"
Sections of bamboo filled with sticky rice.
A great snack!
Preparing quail eggs.


Entering the Temple


Dried squid is a favorite snack (not of mine though!).
Those are all little dried squid hanging on the cart.