sawadee pii mai

Posted by arezzo at 2:49 AM |

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sawadee pii mai : happy new year to my Thai friends.

I really missed my Thai friends, hot weather and spicy foods.

Maybe it's over 40 degrees at center of Bangkok ... phew ...
But dining outside at night in Thai style, it's still hot but comfortable.
Gai yaan (baked chicken), khao pad(fried rice) and naam manau sob(Thai lime juice).
It's a taste of Isaan ... I can't forget.

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Driving in the night of Bangkok .. wind is still hot and heavy.
Just diceded to go one restaurant for dining.
Place was just out of city center...maybe not so far, I thought.

But our car was standing on a traffic jam.
Just watching red wave of tail lamps .. and look up the lights of office from skyscraper.
It's a night at Bangkok ... sure, changed a lot ... but feeling is same from my first visiting.

Audio makes the sound of Orathai while in the cabin.
Songs are changing with time passed, but the car was still moved a bit.
I've found that I'm enjoying it.

Turned Rama4 to Din Daeng..crossed Phetchaburi and passing Pratuu Naam..
Then drive a while Rama 9, to near high way junction.

There are many nice Thai restaurants...some are looks so gorgeous.
Isaan style, sea food, I enjoyed some of it.
Inside is comfortable with air-conditioned ... but also outside is nice, enjoyable.
Breeze by huge big fans and no mosquitos.

While dining, one party played Isaan karaoke...some were nice.
Having it outside is not so delicate but there are really relaxed feelings.
My friend asked them to made not so spicy, so .. I enjoyed a lot these dishes with spicy taste.
Simple .... but I like Isaan taste.

To let me had such a wonderful time .... Thank you my dear friends.
Saturday, April 15, 2006

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, I really enjoy your story under this entry! It feels like I'm right there seing those things you've experienced! I can see why you miss Thailand Arezzo!
Because I miss it too...

take care, talk to you sometime later!

April 18, 2006
arezzo said...

Thank you so much...I'm happy to have your comments...I think I enjoying to write these stories, also missed so much Thailand.

Maybe I will rewrite this story in a bit different feelings.

Talk with you later naka!

April 19, 2006

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World local cusine and music are a part of my favorites.
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Southern France, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and Si-Sen from China.
These are wonderful tast of cookings.

Thai food gonna make you surprise with that very hot and spicy taste, it will you bring to the colorful world of taste.
Sweets, I like those from Italia(Italy), Espagnia(Spain), Francaise(France), Japanese. These countries sweets are my favorites.
South Asian dessert uses coconuts taste mostly, I like it too.
Maybe very good sheff makes wonderful taste, but it is not so popular in the town I think.

Japanese sweets.
I love it, because these are famous for very delicate and sophisticated taste with style and stories...better than French I think.
Recommend traditional confectionery. Best place to get it is Tokyo and Kyoto. And each local cities also has remarkable cakes too.

Asian music is also my favorites.
I also love Flamenco from Spain, oops! actually it is dancing not only music.


Let me know, what kind of local music do you have in your area?

Pizzeria in Rome - Roma

Open the modest black door. The pizzeria was next on the corner of Hotel Bernini Bristol at Piazza Barberini.

If you have any interest this pizzeria, it's able to walk from Piazza Espagna.
Famous charch " Trinità dei Monti " is located top of Spanish steps.
Just walk down the narrow sidewalk to the right on Via Sistina ... around 10 minutes on foot, while watching antique Roman street.

The road faced to the Via del Toritone, that is a corner of the Piazza Barberini. ( it's so fantastic to see the fountain, Fontana di Toritone, especially in the summer evening when I walk around on the sidewalk )

Beside, Risotto at Hotel Bernini Bristol, you could find in a grand floor, it has wonderful taste.....

Thin and crispy ... it's a distinctive of Roman pizza.
If you try some of these, it's easy to see and I'm sure you will like it. I love " margherita " and " quattoro formaggio "

Wait for a while, the pizza is coming to your table.
House wine is fine ... it bring you a perfect time with Italian light body red wine.
Enjoy all at classical interiors with nice smiled stuffs.
"Salute!" or "Cin cin" ( toast!) ...
I wish you would have good Italian taste at citta di Roma.

..... Ciao!

My Favorite Things

Interests

Gourmet – local cuisine that I love so much.

From Andaluz(Andalusia), Southern French(Provence), whole Italian especially Sicilia (Sicily)cuccina (cooking), Japanese “Kaiseki-ryori”, Thai(Thailand) cuisine, it a kind of very hot and spicy. Vietnamese cuisine (taste is so delicate as Japanese), Szechuan cuisine (also a kind of hot but less than Thai cuisine).

Journey (I love no plan for my traveling, mostly in Southeast Asia, maybe bored about Europe already),

Photographs, classic concerts (from Baroque to impression, but already tired to listen, because I done it too much), concerts (love to have Asian local music), Driving (it’s nice to drive around winding road in mountain side or seaside, maybe in high speed when I drive high spec. car),

Computing (make my special computer for my convenience, unable to get it by the market),

Window shopping ( love to do that around Roma, Milano, Genova, Palermo, Nice, Sevilla, Granada, Chiang Mai, Pra Tu Naam Don Khoi.

Writing story and poetry.

Reading , designing, talking, tasting, comparing, drawing, painting.

Favorite Films

1937 France : Un carnet de bal - Julien Duvivier / Marie-Jeanne Bellon,

1947 France : La Chartreuse de Parme - Stendhal / Gérard Philipe,

1957 France : Pot Bouille - Julien Duvivier / Gérard Philipe,

1959 France : À bout de souffle - ean-Luc Godard / Jean-Paul Belmondo,

2001 France : Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain - Jean-Pierre Jeunet / Audrey tautou,

1961 Italia : Divorzio all'italiana - Pietro Germi / Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni / Daniela Rocca / Stefania Sandrelli,

1960 Italia : La dolce vita - Federico Fellini - Nino Rota / Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni,

1949 Italia : Riso amaro - Giuseppe De Santis / Vittorio Gassman,

1954 Italia : La Strada - Federico Fellini - Nino Rota / Anthony Quinn / Giulietta Masina,

1957 Italia : Le notti bianche - Luchino Visconti / Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni,

1964 Italia : Sedotta e abbandonata - Pietro Germi - Carlo Rustichelli / Stefania Sandrelli / Saro Urzi,

2004 Thailand : Hom rong ; The Overture - Narongrit Tosa-nga / Ittisoontorn Vichailak / Anuchit Sapanpong / Adul Dulyarat,

1934 United States : It Happened One Night - Frank Capra / Clark Gable / Claudette Colbert,

1954 United States : The Glenn Miller Story - Anthony Mann / James Stewart / June Allyson / Louis Armstrong,

1955 United States : To Catch a Thief - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock / Cary Grant / Grace Kelly,

1957 United States : An Affair to Remember - Leo McCarey / Cary Grant / Deborah Kerr,

1946 United States : The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks - Raymond Thornton Chandler / Humphrey DeForest "Bogie" Bogart / Lauren Bacall,

Favorite Music

Luktung (Thailand) / Anna Arisa, Orawee Sutjanon, Orn Oradee, Teh Utain Prommin, Got Jakrapun Arbkornburi, Maneemukda, Sunaree Rachasima, Fon Thanasoontorn, Tossapol Himmapan, Air Suchawadee, Jukkajun Wunwisar,

Morlum (Lao & Thailand) / Ladsamee, NuNim, UmPhone, Daeng Douangdeuan, Banyen Rakgan, Urai Puiwong , Job & Joy, Boontha Meungmai,

Lao Morlum : Lum Salawan, Lum pheun, Khap Toum Luang Prabang, Lum Tang Vay, Lum Ban Soc, Lum Konesabah, Lum Sipandon, Lum Mahaxy, Lum Vong, Lum Thoey, Lum Kone, Lum Dern, Lum Hane, Lum Tad, Lum Tai Dam, Kbungeum,

Lhae

Khmer : Cambodia / Kantreum, Talong, Lum Kbach, Pleang Ka, Don Ta,

Vietnam : Que Huong, Dan Ca, Nhac Che, Quang Ho Bac Ninh,

Music from Sip Son Bangna,

Indonesia : Gamelang ,Jaipon, Jaipongang, Dangdut,

Favorite Books

Raymond Thornton Chandler, Trouble is my business.

Raymond Thornton Chandler, The Long Goodbye, The Big Sleep.

Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die, The Chill, Sleeping Beauty.

Philip Kindred Dick.