The Thai Pad: Food-a-palooza! ~ Amanda

Why hello there Thai Pad Readers!

Yes, it's us, The Thai Pad Bloggers. We know it's been awhile. Perhaps you were starting to wonder if we've forgotten about you or that we fell off the face of the planet. You can put your worries aside for here is another yarn to weave.

Over the past few months we have been enjoying our ability to be out and about, to explore the area we live in. As two self-proclaimed foodies, this has involved new restaurants and home cooking shenanigans. Now I could have just posted all of these meals on Instagram and been done but instead I thought our readers back home might enjoying some anecdotes about our food-scapades.

First up on our tour...Gusto Sushi

We found this little sushi restaurant near my surgeon's clinic and it is fabulous. The rolls are pristine, the miso soup is perfectly salty, and the atmosphere is quiet and welcoming.

Am I showing you all of these to make you jealous?

Yes, yes I am.

We had a brief break between semesters in November so we decided to take the bus down to Hua Hin to explore the resort town. We were there for a week and it was beautiful. We stayed at a small, sea-side hotel run by a German family; their pups Magnus and Sally were especially enjoyable. While in Hua Hin, we took a tour of the Monsoon Valley Winery and enjoyed a three course meal. Never fear, we two Americans were throughly stuffed on Thanksgiving.

We both admit that we miss Western kitchens. Our current "kitchen" consists of a microwave, a kettle, and a toaster oven...but our food doesn't look like that is all we have.

This last phase I'm simply going to call "The End of the Year Campaign". We essentially ate around the world: Italian, American, Mexican, Japanese, French, Peruvian, NY Pizza, Thai, Greek, Georgian, and Russian. Our taste buds were thrilled but our stomach were not.