LAst night we ended up eating quite a good amount of food. We started by eating some homemade soup and some white rice. We are eating a lot of white rice here. Pretty much every meal that we eat at home there is some white rice. Good thing we happen to like white rice a lot. Fai took one of the scooters and grabbed me a hamburger from the local 7-11. Yep they have 7-11 here. The burger is slightly different here though. It’s a roll with some meat, some tomato, and some cucumber. No stupid pickles!!! This is a trend I think we need to adopt in the USA since cucumbers are so much more delicious then stupid pickles. They also didn’t have any ketchup or mustard. Just some sweet sauce. All in all the burger was pretty good.
We were waiting for fai’s friend to come pick us up to get some food at Central Plaza. This by far the best place we can go to get out of the heat and also get some food. Just like any mall there are tons of different restaurants so we are getting a great variety of choices there. Plus the place had just opened about 7 days ago, so everything is brand new. The whole town is pretty excited about having such a grand mall since prior to its existence you would have to go into the city to get to a mall which is a bit further away. This mall is about 15 minutes from our house making it very convenient.
Fai’s friend Modji Modji picked us up and we went to the mall. I’m sure some of you remember the steakhouse called Sizzler. Sizzler is pretty popular here. We’ve now seen a sizzler in Bangkok and also in the new mall in Ubon Ratchitani. So, Fai had never eaten there before and I haven’t had a sizzler steak in ages, so we opted for some Sizzler! I got a big steak, of course. I had Sweet Lemon Iced Tea to drink which is by far one of my favorite beverages I’ve tried since I have been. It’s nothing fancy. In fact, I’m certain I can get it in the USA at some place. However, it does taste slightly different then what we have at home. Its Nestea Sweet LEmon Tea, but the flavor is not the same as Nestea Lemon Iced Tea that we have at home. I think this probably has more sugar. The steak was no different then any other steak I have had. Very good steak.
So one thing they do that is different at Sizzler is they give you free salad with your meal except they let you go up to a salad bar and make your own salad. They didn’t have plain lettuce. All of the lettuces were already coated with some kind of dressing. The salad bar was pretty good. I had ceasar salad, bacon and tomato salad, cole slaw (I got that for fai), and some fruit.
After the salad we ate our steaks and then Fai was craving that spicy salad she loves so much that she can only get here in Thailand. So we went upstairs and went to another restaurant. They ordered 3 different ultra-spicy salads and some killer spicy muchroom soup. I tried the soup. The soup won. It really was way too spicy for me. It burned my mouth and my chest for a good 10 minutes and I only had a little taste. Spicy Mushroom Soup 1, Robbiegod 0.
We took some picture playing around at the table. I did not try the other salads because I had tried them the day before. They are pretty hot too. Its nothing I can mess with.
We took a walk around the mall noting that they have decorated the place with giant balloon shaped creatures on the floor and a giant balloon shaped octopus suspended from the ceiling. Its not just one balloon, but hundreds of balloons that are put together to look like an octopus. Pretty neat stuff.
Photos to follow later….