The food

The food is one of the best parts of Thailand and this is coming from someone who has never had American Thai food before this trip. This also means I can not compare to western dishes.

I will start by describing the best food I have had so far. It was a green pumpkin dressed in basil! This was the best flavor combination I have ever had in my mouth before. The sweet mushy pumpkin that had the consistancy of custardy squash was marinated with a think pesto sauce with light cheese on top. It is very fair to say the three other girls and I scrapped the pesto and ever parsal of food off this plate. This was at a vegetarian organic "homeaurant" where the owners actual home kitchen served as the main kitchen. After the apitizer I had a large helping of Papaya salad which is a semi spicy semi speet sauce dressed of long strips of carrots, cucumbers, squash, and maybe some sort of lettuce. It was topped with peanuts and extremly hot peppers.

Today I also have another amazing meal. NPR and the New York Timesactually had reviewed this place, but it was not a torrist attraction as you may think. There was only about 5 tables in the whole place which was the typical thai long garage style store. This older lane with her can took our order and whipped up an amazing dish of cocunut cream shrimp, crispy rice noodles, amazing fried salmon with salad and peppers on top, a red curry with chicken, and glass noodles with seafood. We shared these dishes family style over rice which allowed for us each to have the combination of sweet coconut milk and spicy red peppers rolled around in our mouth. Overall you can never doubt a restaurant with a good NPR rating!