Chiang Mai: Highlights

Rotee For The Masses Chiang Mai had their own roti (they called them rotee) vendors. You could get anything from roti telur to pisang to chocolate. Advertised on the top of its cart, this was supposedly the best rotee in Chiang Mai just outside of Anusarn Market. We had the roti pisang with sugar and condensed milk. Syiok!



Power Tom Yam Kung One of the seafood open air restaurants at Anusarn Market where we had extra spicy tom yam kung. they spoke Mandarin! We had oh chien (oyster in omelette)!




Creepy Crawlies Anyone? The many delicacies you can find at the Sunday Market: worms, crickets, bugs, pupae, etc.




Chinatown-esque One of the many shops around Warorot Market. The goldsmith on the left reminds me of the ones back home.




Smitten This scruffy mutt was quite adorably beside himself at seeing out tuk tuk driver. When we stopped to pick up the driver's dinner at a stall near our hotel, he clambered onto the tuk tuk and planted his scruffy butt next to our driver.

Veteran musicians This group can be found nightly at Anusarn Market and perform at the Sunday Market.

How We End Up With Silk 1. Gorge the silkworms with leaves. It's eat, eat, eat from the moment they're hatched.

2. The silkworms eat and grow till they're ready to become moths/butterflies and weave themselves into a coccoon.

3. Before the pupae are ready to hatch, they are boiled alive in their coccons, which are unwound to make silk threads. It takes 30 coccoons to make a single strand of silk. Just imagine how many coccoons and silkworms it takes to make a metre of single, double and triple ply silk fabric.

Pachiderms You'll find lots of representations of elephants everywhere, from pottery to bookmarks to t-shirts, bags, etc.

Flower Market Lots of garlands and offerings made of flowers.

Indoor Food Central At the Warorot Market. Different merchandise on different floors.

Glutton He had to have Mexican food (but settled for pizza), right outside the Old City at Tha Pae Gate.