Snakes on a plane. (Sorry - SNACKS on and off a plane)

This post is a quick heads-up in case you are travelling through the airport, and there are no cicada trees or wasp nests handy for your power breakfast.

Don't despair. No need to sit there blubbering, tears streaming down your grubby, petulant cheeks.

Just buy a pack or two of these from the airport shop, and your cheeks really WILL be 'grubby'.

Stuffed full of them probably, like a squirrel hoarding nuts.

These are handy packs of fried grubs to sustain the hungry traveller (or should we call them 'peckish?) - just like Pringles, only healthier and without emulsifiers, flavour agents, coagulants and preservatives. Or not.

For those too lazy to follow my simple nam sausage recipe, the shop stocks these ones, ready to upset the traveller in the seat next to you as you belch and breathe garlic nam breath like a sour-pork-eating dragon. (Just in case you've had your fill of fried larvae, and feel like some variety).

Aaaah.
Moo yor. A soft, tasty Thai pork 'bologna' if you like. Wrapped in a LOT of banana leaf. I thought I was in for a meaty snack of extra-ordinary proportion, and it ended up being like unwrapping a free Xmas gift from a Department store Santa. A kilo of banana leaf with 100 grams of meat. Nice though.

One of the things I love about Bangkok. Yes - it's a wild city full of juicy exploits. An especially juicy exploit is going to any BTS  sky-train station, finding the 'soontra' stand, and getting into their fresh passionfruit juice.
They stock fresh passionfruit, fresh passionfruit & beetroot, fresh passionfruit & carrot, lemongrass & pandanus drink, and Thai orange juice. All are good.

Fresh passionfruit juice is almost as addictive as heroin, but costs less, and is better tolerated in the workplace and public areas.
Unless you are like me, walking with purpose through the human swarm, juggling bags and plastic bottles, trying to rip the cap off with one hands and the teeth, and drink it without staining the front of my shirt with spilled juice.

Grilled chicken or "Gai Yang".
Another classic accompaniment to sticky rice. All over Thailand, and I'm still not sick of it.

Grilled pork skewers. the guy asked me if I wanted 'nam jim' on it - the toasted chilli and lime dressing with coriander and fish sauce.

I looked at him like he was stark raving mad. Some sort of street vending lunatic. OF COURSE I want nam jim! These charcoal grilled pork skewers are tender and succulent.
Moo ping skewers without nam jim would be like a chef without a weird or mean streak. Strange.

as the shirt says........................

And talking about fast food icons - this is what KFC is up to in Thailand this week. It looks a lot healthier, tastier and more appetising than a bloody cardboard box of reconstructed, meat-glued chicken and chemical paste nuggets. I wish they did it everywhere.

This one just made me smile.

I wonder at which point did they get sick and tired of calling in plumbers to pull large knotted balls of hastily flushed stockings out of the blocked toilet?