Hipster Food-pics Time!

Today I went to have dinner with my supervisor Valerie and we had some awesome Japanese food! 

We started with sushi:

I LOVE the salmon, especially with the soy sauce, I could eat kilos and kilos of it!!

Unfortunatelly I forgot all the names, but we also had this:

The meat in the upper right corner is added to the boiling soup together with the mushrooms in the middle and when it is done you can eat it with some amazing rice that had pieces of cooked salmon. We had some more things, like this rice or some other sushis, but my incredibly good phone was shutting down everytime I tried to take a picture, so you can mail all the complaints to him. 

It was a delicious dinner and a really fun time and I want to thank Valerie who invited me to this as a good-bye present (you heard it, I have one foot out the door already! :( )

Good night!

Happy Pi day!

By the way, before I forget! A happy Pi day to all of you out there!! You dont believe this is a thing? Wrong!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

Yay!

ระวัง! ลิง!!

Island number three. I'll let you guess the name (if you have not already guessed by the title of this post).

No, it's not "Boat Island" or "I-cannot-believe-the-color-of.the-water Island". (Talking of which I have to show one last water picture. Look at this!!: )

I'll give you one better clue, though:

Exactly, Monkey-Island. Not only was this island incredibly beautiful, there were monkeys running up and down the beach!! 

How cute are the babies?!!! You were not allowed to feed them but some people ignored that, which was pretty stupid since these things can actually be very dangerous if they want to.

Now we all know where Chris' monkey came from (and why he is always so grumpy, btw. If I went from this beach to a teenager's closet, I would not be in a much better mood...)

The surroundings were amazing as well. Look at the small island in the background! Why does not everybody live here!?

Ducking awesome food!

And from Thai food we go to Singaporean delights. Today I went to have lunch with my friends from work and we decided to try a place nearby that is famous for its duck chicken. This is what it looked like:

As my friends well observed I was the only Ang Mo there (a term they use for caucassians over here which literally means "red-haired"), so again I blended in perfectly, even better when I started taking pictures of every square cm there.

Ok the quality of this one is very crappy but I did not want to stay 10 minutes taking pictures of their dishes. This is actually in the same room then the tables and it's a very common way to wash the dishes and the chopsticks found in all the hawker centers here. They basically put it in a huge bowl with water and wash it there. The fact that plates and cuttlery are usually made out of plastic makes it much easier to handle and clean. 

This is the actual duck and it was REALLY good! (Speaking of REALLY god, how about the picture quality of my friend's phone camera (At this point I would like to thank Karen for lending me her phone so I could take pictures of everything!)). Anyways, this is what we had:

I am not sure what the vegetables were, but the thing on the left is tofu which was also amazing and of course we had rice as a side dish.

This is what it looks like from the outside. You can see how this guy cuts up the duck with a knive and a velocity that you have to wonder how frequently they have to exchange the man...

Good night!

Thai food

I can't remember having actively been to a Thai restaurant in Europe, so I was not sure what would expect me, but after only 2 days in Thailand I know that I love it!! A lot of recipes that I knew from other asian restaurants turn out to be Thai and the new ones are incredible as well.

The thing in the bowl is green curry, which was amazing and the rolls are Thai spring rolls, also very good. They have a strong taste of lemongrass which I was not used to in the beginning but I really liked in the end. The thing in the front is a fish salad which I enjoyed a lot as well.

There was a lot of cut up meat with vegetables (like cashew chicken, which is amazing!) that we ate with boiled rice. In this restaurant next to the beach they serve it like this:

I am so sure they used one of those sand-moldings for this! 

So they DO exist...

I have introduced you to the first two islands we visited during our tour around the Phi Phi islands in my last two posts, so I guess it's obvious what has to come next... exactly: 

Japanese toilets.

I have always heard those stories about how weird they are supposed to be and how the have more functions than all apple gadges combined (notice the lower case "apple" as I am, of course, referring to the fruit and can therefore not be sued in any way). Be as it may I always though those were the toilets they might present in Japan at some fair but not actually use. Well, live to learn, this is what I walk into as I go to the toilet in Narita:

So far, it does not seem TOO strange, untill we take a closer look:

I don't know which of the buttons is more confidence-inspiring: The mysterious blue sign, that is disturbing no matter how you interprete it, the pink one, that makes you wonder what the hell the previously mentioned blue button is for, the flushing sound button which, not being random enough on it's own, has some volume regulating buttons or the water pressure buttons that might influence all or none of the previous functions. In case some of you still have any doubts everything is perfectly well explained in Japanese, Chinese and English (thank god for this last one).

Of course I was ultra curious, but I only dared to press the sound button since I was too afraid to get showered by the other two. After giving it some thought though, I have come to notice that there is no regulation for the temperature of the water. What barbarian circumstances are these!?

Island number two

The second island was just as amazing. We came here to have lunch and I was quite surprised to find out that it was very good. I mean, usually when you buy these tours they just try to give you the minimum so I was expecting a sandwitch and some juice, but it turned out to be a big buffet with incredible views!

As you can see this was a very stressful business...

Before we left I went around the island to explore and found this little fellow:

I especially appreciate his claw, haha, what a cool pose!

This is the restaurant from the outside. Pretty neat, huh?

I am probably boring the hell out of everyone with the non-stop pictures of the water, but the color was unbelieveable!! Just look at it!  Unbelieveable!