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weight there anyways and i said you think so and he said definitely so i continued on with my decidedly non lettuce and water diet and didn t lose a pound beforehand didn t lose a pound there either didn t get sick once mom felt sick one evening after a long day out on a boat tour it could have been something she ate or a bug but more likely a little too much sun should i eat from the food carts there was definitely times while walking along the street and looking at the food carts that i did not feel comfortable eating from any of them so we didn t nope didn t eat anything from here we only ate from carts where they were making each dish on the spot mikey s advice was to find a grandma type lady with a wok i tended to look at the way the ingredients were laid out clean and organized with clean mixing bowls i also made a comment once that i chose by the cleanliness of their feet and thought that s not entirely accurate i did look at the person we never chose the people just sitting on a stool looking bored picking at their teeth or combing out their companions hair we didn t eat any of these either only once did i think hmm i hope i don t get sick from this we wanted to try banana pancakes and as we were nearing the end of our trip i told mom the next banana pancake cart we see no matter if we re hungry or not we have to get it so one night walking home from a night market we ran across a cart banana cart man was totally clean and there was a line of people waiting for their pancake so it was an approved situation he had clean feet too he pinched off a little round of dough from a clean mixing bowl and then slapped and smashed the dough around on the top of the cart clean little area until it was round and then cooked it on a sizzling hot little wok griddle this was before is was covered with copious amounts of sweetened condensed milk i wouldn t have thought anything about it but juli had mentioned that her banana cart guy was mushing his dirty fingers in the dough and then that was all i could think about were his hands clean did he take money from those hands that were now smashing my banana pancake dough thankfully i was vacationing with my mom and if i d said eew you think his hands are clean she d undoubtedly have said it s fine this is the woman who in the back of a taxi in bangkok after a morning of traveling to the airport in the back of a crazy man s taxi and a long flight was eating some fried bananas and licking her fingers i said mom and she looked startled what my hands are sticky sticky fried bananas okay what about getting sick from germs we did bring wet ones and i was definitely glad at many moments to have them we used them a lot to wipe deet off our fingers packets of tissue were helpful too not a lot of toilet paper available but as for germs i didn t see a lot of sick people i sometimes saw people wearing masks and i couldn t tell if that was because they were sick or if they were afraid of getting sick who knows we were in the back of taxis licking off our sticky fingers so we re probably not the ones to be discussing germs in thailand email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 2 comment here friday march 7 2014 thailand trip report planning this won t be my most interesting post ever it will help someone who is planning their trip to thailand i hope my friends just skim this because it gets pretty nitty gritty and dull i feel like thailand isn t one of those places you can just wing it when you land but maybe that s because i m a neurotic over planner not sure i read one million tripadvisor forum posts and reviews and did enjoy knowing answers to lots of my questions beforehand such as how should i take care of my cash situation over there atm my bank allowed a withdrawl of 20k baht at one time about 615 usd i m paranoid about overseas atm transactions because i ve been stuck overseas with my atm card not working a few years back for no apparent reason but i m going to assume from now on that was a fluke and will never happen again contact your bank let them know where you re going and you ll be fine we took some cash just in case 300 but never needed to convert it we did have a duplicate atm withdrawl occur which we found out when we went to withdraw some cash and there wasn t enough money in there i called the bank from thailand and had them run through the list of transactions and eventually matched them up with my atm receipts and was able to identify the duplicate charge there wasn t much to do about it while i was there so i went to the bank the day after i got home and they reversed the charge the day after that atm in front of our guest house in phuket i don t blame it personally for the fraudulent behavior but this is where it happened i had opened a separate account just for our vacation and mom and i put our money into it so that we wouldn t worry about our main checking account i would definitely do that again look into what your bank offers regarding foreign transaction fees because the account we opened reversed all our atm fees nice are the mosquitoes crazy am i going to be one big weepy mosquito bite and end up with dengue fever i read somewhere that if you take vitamin b weeks before you go the mosquitos won t bite you i religiously took that b vitamin for 6 weeks before the trip i don t know if it helped or not but i did not get bitten like i thought i would that could also be the heavy duty deet repellant mom brought which we applied whenever we were going to be eating outside for dinner or going somewhere we thought might be mosquito ey evening near water deet it up the bites i did get were the kind that swelled up immediately in a big ole welt and then disappeared down to nothing within the hour mom s were more red and long lasting though neither of us got dengue bring a few lightweight cotton scarves to cover your shoulders and neck if you end up at a mosquito ridden place okay enough about mosquitos bring repellant can i use my phone in thailand you need to buy a sim card in thailand my samsung galaxy phone didn t have a removable sim card so that phone could not be used zack s windows phone did i called sprint and had them check to make sure the phone was unlocked it wasn t they unlocked it i had to shut it off then enter some code zack showed me where the sim card was on the phone he didn t show me how to take it out or maybe he did but i wish i would have paid attention you should know how to take the sim card out of your phone before you get there when i landed in bangkok i went to the first phone kiosk that we came across at the airport he worked on the phone for awhile 10 minutes at least then said the sim card wasn t working and to go try another place i got frustrated and said never mind i don t know how to work this stupid phone and huffed off to our next flight to phuket went to the first kiosk in phuket and the girl got it to work right away i thought for sure she was scamming me that i d turn the corner and the stupid phone would just implode so i asked her to show me it worked to call herself on her cell phone and she did and it worked that s the code you enter in to find out your baht balance and there s a little sticker inside so you can tape your home sim card so you don t lose it that s important from then on whenever i was running low on baht i would run in to 7 11 or family mart and tell them i needed to top off my sim card and then i d turn off my phone and take off the back and hand it to them they d take out the sim card look at it enter some code and off i d go mikey told me later that if you know who your provider is you tell them that then how much you want to add to the sim card they give you the code and you enter it so obviously they could tell i was a bumbling tourist and took pity on me pick up some great flavored chips while you re getting your sim card topped off if your phone has gps and you ve got a map installed on it be very happy and use it i have no idea how much baht it used or if we were just using baht when i was making calls but we didn t spend more than 20 on the sim card and we weren t skimpy with using the phone next post germs in thailand search for jbr on tripadvisor took a while for me to figure that out but it stands for just back report email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 1 comment here tuesday december 31 2013 won ton soup recipe by jessica i ve thought about writing a cookbook called the how to cook without using a cookbook cookbook because i think everyone s got it in them to experiment and make it the way you like it besides that i can t measure or follow directions and i definitely fail at giving directions so that s that therefore this won ton soup recipe which some of you have asked for are more like guidelines i say ish when i m not exactly sure how much i put in soup base 1 lemongrass stalk with two outer leaves removed pounded and chopped finely 1 3 chunk fresh ginger grated finely 3 cloves garlic through garlic press 2 tbs ish red curry paste alternatively i have not chopped the lemongrass ginger garlic finely but i will add them whole or in large chunks and then pull them out after simmering for a few hours i usually never use curry paste either so that s optional saute these 4 ingredients in 1 2 tbs vegetable oil until very fragrant then add 10 12 cups broth i didn t have any broth so i added a couple ramen noodles seasoning packets 3 tbs ish soy sauce 2 tbs ish fish sauce let simmer as long as you like taste and add more of whatever sometimes i add a teeny bit of sugar sometimes i add a tiny bit of seasoned rice vinegar sometimes i add some japanese fish base soup stock you can t go wrong if it gets too salty add some water won ton filling 1 4 lb ground pork 1 2 can water chestnuts chopped finely 3 green onions chopped finely 1 chunk of ginger grated finely 2 tbs oyster sauce 1 tsp soy sauce mix well this is where i would say to taste a smidge and see if it s salty enough but i don t want to freak anyone out wrap the won tons chop some veggies get the broth boiling like crazy add wontons one at a time and delicately stir i ve really messed up my wontons by adding them to the broth without the broth being hot enough and sometimes the wontons fall apart and i don t know why add veggies to boil briefly top with sliced green onions enjoy email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 1 comment here wednesday september 18 2013 jessica s wrap contest jessica is well on her way to stardom again with her mad cooking skills our local harvest fair put out an invitation to local amateur cooks to compete in the first annual world wrapped cooking competition if her video is one of the top 3 voted for she will be a finalist and will compete in a chopped style competition live at the harvest fair october 6th we need your help in getting her in the top 3 if you haven t voted click this link and vote 2 times feel free to log onto other devices and vote from there too thank you you almost thought this blog no longer existed huh fooled ya email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 4 comment here saturday august 3 2013 reality show by jessica this post is for sue west who commented on a picture of anya and i on instagram love your family you re like a clean fun reality show i like a lot about this comment thank you sue it reminded me of a funny story we were taking a walk through town a few months back and we stopped at this empty storefront window okay i don t remember it looking so dungeon esque but i m pretty sure this is the same building anyhow we looked in there for awhile then i turned to the kids i ve got something to tell you sometimes they look at me like they re not quite sure what s going to happen well i ve signed us up for a new project they re doing in town we are going to live in this building our living room is going to be right there and people are going to walk by and stare at us all day long how do you feel about that they knew i was kidding and then they thought i might not be and then they knew i was kidding again and then they thought about it again and thought i might not be you gotta keep it interesting email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 2 comment here wednesday july 31 2013 meat balls by jessica this post is for you mom who says you miss reading our stories i ve been meaning to tell you this but keep forgetting this post is also for my children who will one day read all the posts on this blog and will think this is the un funniest thing you ever read especially you ian i made these meat balls eggplant and porcini meatballs i won t give you the whole recipe here s the link but obviously the stars of the meat balls are eggplant and mushrooms ian s very least favorite vegetables they came inside for dinner and saw me frying those babies up quickly because they weren t really the right color exactly yes meatballs dinner table ian what s in these meatballs me bread crumbs and onion garlic salt and pepper eggs you know just the normal meatball stuff ian hmmm and he ate the meat balls he kinda knew though but i think chose to just not know exactly email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 3 comment here thursday may 30 2013 what cha doin by justine never a dull moment and this morning is no exception here i am vacuuming the inside of my washing machine what you don t do that well you know me the clean freak oh just kidding this is due to the unfortunate mishap of a disposable diaper making it s way into the washing machine and you thought the last time you left a tissue in a pocket was bad imagine 5 million times worse you re going to have to trust me because late last night when i discovered it i didn t have the presence of mind to take a picture of the actual mess in case you don t know diapers are filled with millions of little gelatinous balls that absorb moisture and when a diaper explodes in the washer guess where all the little balls go yes everywhere don t even ask if it was a poopy diaper or not long story short poor hubby strung up some line in the garage and shook out the laundry while i tackled the clean up of the actual washer poor guy this was after a week of sewer pump malfunctions in our granny unit from the improper disposal of something down down the toilet which he had to fish out twice eventually i gave up on my task and decided that cleaning the washer in the morning after the little balls dried would be easier now there is a gritty film of diaper innards stuck to the drum hmmm maybe not such a great idea after all in case you are wondering i googled how to clean up after diaper washer disaster and got such varied answers that we were forced to go with our gut throwing the whole kit and kaboodle in the dryer and then cleaning lint filter seemed risky as did just rewashing the load with salt well off to run a rinse cycle and...