Hui-Chen and I have done so much in the last few days that its hard for us to blog on all of it at once. Just to upload the necessary photography to flickr [1] takes hours. Feel free to browse our photos on flickr and we’ll get to blogging on them as quickly as we can.
Our friends own a resort in a small village [2], and we like to stay there when we visit Thailand. The villagers are very nice and we can relax by a fire and enjoy life as one only can in Thailand.
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One of the things that I like best about Sabua is the open kitchen. I usually get up in the morning and cook my own breakfast. You can pretty much do whatever you want at this resort.
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Here I am cutting some Isan sausage that we purchased from a local roadside vendor. If you’ve never tried it before, you really should! I like to cut them into small pieces and wok fry them. I have also been known to make a German style potato salad using these sausages instead of bacon. They have a wonderful flavor that just can’t be found anywhere else.
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This is the gas fired burner that we use in the outdoor kitchen for wok cooking.
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Here, I am attempting to cook 2 eggs “sunny.” The bottoms of the eggs were a bit well done, but the tops were sunny.
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The resort has a new building that Hui-Chen hasn’t seen before.
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This is the front porch of the new building. Notice the unusual table made from an old wagon wheel.
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This is the inside, which currently is configured as a dining area. You can have the staff remove the table and chairs if you want to do something different in this room. The building is divided into 2 sections (with no pass-through door) and the other section is a bedroom.
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View of the front of the new building.
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This wild fruit grows naturally on the resort. It tastes bitter, but surprisingly, you want to keep eating them once you taste the first one.
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On his last visit, Saumen [13] suggested that they get a swing for the resort. The owners had this swing built of an old oxcart, and the design is ingenious.
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Taken in the early morning light, this shows how peaceful the resort is.
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This is shot of the swing and the covered table where you can sit and watch the fish in the pond.
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A spiderweb, its presence revealed by the morning dew.
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