Chefie’s World

I am in the Bangkok Airport waiting for my flight back to Manila. I’ve been here since 11:30 in the morning, my original flight was cancelled due to some sorth of cloudiness and radar error in Manila. I don’t know if this is true. My friends tell me that the plane doesn’t have enough passengers to leave from Manila so it opted to stay. I don’t really know what else to do..an option was to leave with the other passengers and stay in a hotel nearby but I don’t want to go to the process of having to line up again and wait. The airport is clean and free not much people and I get to sleep with my carry on which I have in a trolley. My carry on is a bit heavy, it has my manual…oh the reason I am here is to study again, Im in such a crazy mode of studying, took a Frozen Dough Course with US Wheat Associates and wow, a big amount of knowledge was just shared to me…realizing that it might help me in my career…don’t really know…I just want a less monotonous life of just teaching and teaching…..this is my third trip to Thailand this year, was here last March, then May when all hell broke loose and no place to go except that I was so anxious to go home and this June –July…I felt so fulfilled though since I can really go around Thailand and not get lost, shopping, sightseeing or just plain eating. Although the end wasn’t as nice as the two weeks, I still got to eat really good food. Food on the street, hawker’s but not as much as before since due to the warm weather, I was scared of getting a bad stomach. I had the best coconut cookies, made from coconut cream, rice flour and sugar, made in a hot plate with holes on it like the Japanese squid balls one sees in the groceries. This one was really very good, full of flavour with a crispy outside and a soft kutchinta like filling, I can finish 20 in one snap, I had it continuously for three days and then the ago go went haywire in my lean stomach. I had the best pizzas too in Bella Napoli….with good, old friends Thierry and Borris who have been here in Bangkok for three years teaching in a French school. Enjoyed eating in my two favourite restaurants, Vanilla Brasserie in Siam Paragon and Greyhound in Emporium, love their food and presentations. When one day you decide to go to Bangkok, bring me along, a good guide for all that’s worth doing. My flight leaves in three – four hours so I will write more until my battery goes bye bye.