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unit · 02-12-2019, 03:09 PM

was just in thailand bike touring. my friend and i are both vegetarian, so we were touring around the countryside looking for somewhere to eat in one of the villages.

anyway we were starving and looking for a restaurant and it's actually quite difficult to be a vegetarian in this part of the country. in some parts of the day all they eat is literally pork soup, similar to pho but pork broth. you'd stop at 5 restaurants that have like 10-20 things on the menu but all they're serving up is a bowl of pork soup. so i learned the word for vegetarian by then and i'm asking around, getting desperate, not wanting to just eat banana snacks and corn all day.

thing to note is a lot of these villages have houses that use plastic advertisement banners as patio sunshades. they collect them from wherever the fuck and stick them on their houses to block sun, so a lot of these houses look just like restaurants and stores. same tables and chairs as the stores, same ads on the outside as stores, to me they all look kind of the same. later i'd figure out that the easiest way to distinguish the difference is that stores/restaurants always have some sort of fridge selling drinks, and houses always had their fridges inside.

so we walked up to this one family who is eating dinner with like 10 family members at different tables and asked for food. they offered us their pork soup, but noooo, we're vegetarians. we explained to them we don't eat meat, and we would need a food that was just vegetables. couldn't they just fry us up some veggies and noodles instead of cook them in the pork broth? they had everything right there. they finally understood and one of them even ran across the street to the corner store to buy us bottled waters. they made us a nice veg noodle dish and around halfway through the meal my friend and i started to piece together that this wasn't a restaurant at all. we had just walked over to someones home and demanded the pickiest food possible (presumably for free). of course we offered them money and of course they refused. we sat and laughed with them for a while but i'll never live that down! not sure how well they understood that we wouldn't have done that if we didn't know it was just their family dinner... super nice people for sure.

02-12-2019, 03:09 PM	#43
unit SFICC-03* Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: richmond Posts: 9,476 Thanked 4,281 Times in 1,684 Posts Failed 167 Times in 88 Posts	was just in thailand bike touring. my friend and i are both vegetarian, so we were touring around the countryside looking for somewhere to eat in one of the villages. anyway we were starving and looking for a restaurant and it's actually quite difficult to be a vegetarian in this part of the country. in some parts of the day all they eat is literally pork soup, similar to pho but pork broth. you'd stop at 5 restaurants that have like 10-20 things on the menu but all they're serving up is a bowl of pork soup. so i learned the word for vegetarian by then and i'm asking around, getting desperate, not wanting to just eat banana snacks and corn all day. thing to note is a lot of these villages have houses that use plastic advertisement banners as patio sunshades. they collect them from wherever the fuck and stick them on their houses to block sun, so a lot of these houses look just like restaurants and stores. same tables and chairs as the stores, same ads on the outside as stores, to me they all look kind of the same. later i'd figure out that the easiest way to distinguish the difference is that stores/restaurants always have some sort of fridge selling drinks, and houses always had their fridges inside. so we walked up to this one family who is eating dinner with like 10 family members at different tables and asked for food. they offered us their pork soup, but noooo, we're vegetarians. we explained to them we don't eat meat, and we would need a food that was just vegetables. couldn't they just fry us up some veggies and noodles instead of cook them in the pork broth? they had everything right there. they finally understood and one of them even ran across the street to the corner store to buy us bottled waters. they made us a nice veg noodle dish and around halfway through the meal my friend and i started to piece together that this wasn't a restaurant at all. we had just walked over to someones home and demanded the pickiest food possible (presumably for free). of course we offered them money and of course they refused. we sat and laughed with them for a while but i'll never live that down! not sure how well they understood that we wouldn't have done that if we didn't know it was just their family dinner... super nice people for sure.