Starving in Thailand

Chicken and rice, coagulated blood and cucumbers.

The second thing you notice in Bangkok, after the chaos, is the food stands on the streets. One next to the other. Nobody cooks here; it is cheaper to eat out than to cook.

However, I can’t do that. I am allergic to fish, and here they put fish sauce and fish salt on everything, and I mean everything. Here they don’t use regular salt; they use fish salt, wish it’s the pulverized scales of the fish.

So even if I order chicken, most like it has already has been marinated in fish sauce or broth or cooked with fish salt.

So, I can’t eat anything!!!!

I found a few things I can eat, but my diet it’s very limited.

The other day I ate some vegetable spring rolls, and I got a small reaction. It seems they were fried in the same oil than the fish. That is how bad I am.

Needless to say, I can attest to that it is cheaper to eat on the street than going to the supermarket. I have gone many times, and the disparity between prices is incredible. But they have a salad bar, and that I can eat.

It’s a shame because it is a beautiful place, but I can’t fully enjoy it because I am hungry!!!

If you know me or read my book or blogs, you know I don’t eat fast food, however, here I already eat McDonald and KFC. That it’s how hungry and desperate I become.

In the meantime, I keep eating boiled chicken with rice, and the sweeter little bananas I have ever had.

You need ot eat at least five bananas