Suan Lum Night Bazaar and fried chicken

We always find time for a stop at Suan Lum Night Bazaar when in Bangkok, and on our first night at the Met. this is where we were headed. There's been lots of talk that Suan Lum was closing making room for massive high rises, so we were glad to see it still there !! There does seem to be quite a lot of movement at ground level, there weren't as many shops as we remember and food courts had moved from one end of the plot to another. So we decide to head down to Soi Polo for a quick fried chicken fix before heading back for more exploring.



We take a seat and place our order. Within moment we are graced with a larb muu - spicy pork mince salad and little baskets of sticky rice.



Then the fried chicken arrives, in all it's golden glory, smothered in deep-fried garlic.



And a som dtum - spicy papaya salad.



It's all covered in alternating spoons of the 2 sauces, a home-made sweet chili and a nam jim jiaw.



With our bodies now fueled, it's back to the Night Bazaar ..... Our favorite find in the little corner of local artists, was GumBKK, an aspiring artist with a very artistic use of gold and rabbits.



He also does some creative things with some Doraemon characters ....



Some of the rabbits are just too cute ... he even does custom shoes / bags / suitcases.



We get our little hot chili rabbit and a few other goodies to declare another sucessful and enjoyable trip to Suan Lum Night Bazaar.

Lawn bowls and som dtam

What type of fool goes out in the heat of the midday sun in Koh Samui and decides to play lawn bowls? Well apparently we do.
Off Samui's ring road down to the south in Ban Taling Nam an English couple by the name Lisa and Rodger have set up a bowling green with bar attached and it's a great way to pass the time while enjoying a few drinks. I do suggest that you go towards the later end of the day, as we found when the sun is beating down you can only manage a couple of ends before retreating to the shade covered bar (not such a bad thing).


bowls surrendered to the sun

Bordering the greens all sorts of local delicacies grow from banana, papaya, baby pineapple and betel leaves, this led to discussion of what to do with all this produce and resulting in us ending up with two very handsome green papayas for dinner. A quick ride past the local market to grabs a few extra veges and a whole roasted chicken and we were set.


papaya retrival

We pounded the green papaya up into a som dtam and served it with the roast chicken, some cucumber, wing beans, apple eggplant and sticky rice.



Not a bad effort at a pinch. We get by.