July 20th, 2019
July 20, 2019
A Saturday would not be complete with a trip to The Saturday market, but I shouldn’t get ahead of myself! The day began once again with a trip to the Baan Bakery (somewhat earlier this time so as to make sure we got something tasty) and got some laundry done! It’s so cheap and fast, easy to keep up on! I thought I was buying pastries for two days, but as it turns out, it was enough for one day. 🤣🤣
Troy suggested we walk to Wat Suan Dok. A temple west of the old city. It is very hot today 103 degrees, but this goes not hinder us as we also want to stop and try a Texas BBQ place that Troy has read about that is over in that area. It is close to Chiangmai University and a big hospital. We have wandered around here before but not to this specific temple. Yes it was very hot, but a beautiful walk along the moat regardless.
The bbq place looked iffy from the outside but they sported a legit looking smoker out front and air conditioned seating inside, so we took the plunge. The place had 6 tables tops! I had a pulled pork sandwich and troy had brisket sandwich. We had potato salad and then apple pie for dessert! Absolutely delicious. And a taste of home for sure! We chatted with Sweeney, the owner and a Texas native, for a bit and I can assure you this place is one our list of places we will go back to. He is moving in three weeks to a new location over by the Thapae Gate. So we will see him there then…he told us about a place that serves great western food and owned by a Canadian that we should try tomorrow. Feast Society. It’s a very odd name. But duly noted Sweeney!
After the feast, we were glad to note coming out around 5:15, that the temp had dropped a few degrees. The walk over to the Lost Bookstore where we had promised Landon we would go to look for some books was much more tolerable than earlier in the day. We actually found two of the books on Landon’s list (hallelujah!). He will be very excited when he sees these! Then we felt compelled to stop for another fruit shake (because to be honest we were not too happy with the shakes we got when we first set off for the day). I had banana/pineapple which is my new goto flavour. Then Troy and I parted ways as I was intent on heading to the Saturday Night Market.
I had corn waffle on the brain. And ultimately ended up getting a foot massage too 😉.
It was 150 baht for a hour. And the ladies seemed to really need customers 🤷🏻♀️What was I to do ?? I sort of completely forgot that I had been walking around town for 6 hours when I sat down, so I felt a tiny bit bad about my dirty feet after she kept showing me the cotton balls after she cleaned my feet. Oops!!
On our walk today I saw this ‘art’ or scarecrow or I’m not sure what?? Thing make completely out of recycled fans! Quite clever indeed. And sort of creepy looking 🤣🤣
