Flowers and Food

This past weekend was the annual Chiang Mai Flower Festival. Sometimes we have gone to the park where many displays are put up, but didn't get around to it this year. I decided to go to the parade on Saturday morning; I found a ledge to sit on but lasted less than an hour. By the time it gets to our area, it's been going for a couple of miles and the marchers and floats are widely spread out, with lots of regular traffic in between. I saw about three floats and number of marchers, including a band. I think what I enjoy most are the various kinds of regional dress various groups wear.

Part of one float

A group of marchers

Flowered dolphin decorating a traffic island

There is a large, lighted sign in the soi (alley) next to our building advertising the Chang Restaurant and Cooking School. We never tried it, so one evening recently we went there. It was a lovely location, lots of wood in the decor. The food was OK, fairly bland. The best thing we had was a plate of tempura veggies (but not great for a photo).

Chang restaurant interior

... And more food:

I've seen this fruit at the Saturday Walking Street Market several times. Last week I bought a bottle of the juice. It tasted exactly like Hawaiian Punch (or my memory of it; it's been many years since I tasted it).

We've added passion fruit to our breakfast concoction of muesli, yogurt and fruits.

Another Saturday evening market photo -- the size of the shrimp is amazing!

I've seen crickets, grasshoppers, etc., but this is the first time I've seen scorpions for sale. No thank you!

As an appetizer, we got some shrimp dumplings. Delicious!