Some Food Pictures!

I have been treated to a variety of different foods, and these are just a few pictures of the food that I got to eat at the beginning of my trip.

 Okay, this is one of the foods that I have eaten, and it's pretty good.  The bigger lady on the right is NaNa. She takes me around town a lot, and we do a lot of things together.  The smaller lady in the pink shirt is....I can't remember her name, but I met her at the shrimp farms, which I will tell you guys about later.  We are cooking "fish balls".  I can't pronounce the Thai name, so I will just tell you the English version.  What it is is fish, ground up so its like paste, mixed with curry and spring onions, and then tossed into oil to cook. 

 A picture of me cooking these fish balls.  The people in the truck just pulled up to buy some.  You would get a bag of 20 or so fish balls for about 30 baht.  They were spicy, and at this time I was not accustomed to spicy food, so I could only really eat one or two before needing a sip of water. 

 A better view of them cooking.  We all decided that NaNa was better at cooking, and I should probably leave the cooking to them.  Even though I didn't do much, it was their way of making money, and me burning them probably wouldn't have been a good plan.

 A close up look at the cooking.  It is being cooked by a flame, which is different from what they normally do.  Normally food here is cooked via a propane tank, but still in the wok. 

Okay, so one night, while my host mom was out in China, my host dad took my brother and I to this seafood restaurant on the river.  We had everything seafood-raw shrimp, cooked shrimp, fish, spicy fish, and these beasts (the picture).  This is a shrimp, but I swear it was like 8 inches long, and thats not including the tenticlely feelers.  They were huge! I didn't really like it though, but I still ate it.  Another thing that we ate here, that I don't have a picture of is crayfish.  The only difference between their crayfish and ours is theirs are big, and by big I mean like a foot long, probably bigger.  I tried it...it was pretty good.  My host dad said that it was like our lobster, but the size had me floored.