Chicken for breakfast.

I don't know why I'd never thought of it before.

Sounds like a taste sensation! Fish sausage?!?! Lookin forward to the pics.

I woke up early so decided to report on last nights beetle eating. I went for a fag before bed but my mate Li wasn't about to chat to so I went or a wander up the road and spotted a cart selling some interesting looking stuff. No idea what most of it was, mostly some kind of shredded meat or fish. However, I did spot some rather large (about and inch long) beetles and decided to get a few to try. From inspection of the legs I'd guess it was some kind of water beetle. They were only a couple of pence for a big bag load. I just got one scoop to try. There is a video to be uploaded at a later date. The report - not good. Pretty inedible really, I think I may have been doing it wrong. They were served in a bag with a sprinkle of seasoning and a squirt of chilli sauce (from the kind of bottle used to water house plants, not a bad idea really). I first tried one whole. It was rock hard, took some force to break the shell. After that it was like crunching sharp plastic so I abandoned that one. Didn't fancy swallowing something that could slice up my insides. Kate suggested that in the Indiana Jones film, they crack open the beetles and suck out the insides so I gave that a go. It worked better and I got some of the stuff out (is beetle classed as meat? Jelly? Juicy bits?). I was pretty bad. All yellow puss and a bit of chewy stuff. The seasoning and chilli didn't penetrate to the insides so it was full on beetle taste without the mask of spice. The taste was unique but most definatly unappealing. Sort of like chicken liver that had gone off, surprisingly musty. After that I decided to ditch the rest of the bag. I'll probably not try those again but if I spot any other brands of insect, I'll report back.

I forgot to mention yesterdays breakfast of congee. Lord knows what it was made of but if you imagine the sweetcorn soup you get from a chinese, tripple the gloopyness of it, throw in some unidentifiable meat (possibly pork) and a few chunks of what I can only describe as bovril jelly then thats pretty close to what congee was. I was edible and kept me going for the day but its not a repeat meal. As I'm flying today I'm playing safe and having the chicken again, its full of win!

Good evening. I am now in Samui. The hotel in Chang mai didn't have internet facilities and I was too busy to find an internet cafe. The samui hotel has internet but they charge so it so here is the update, in 15 mins of typing.

While in Chang Mai, we ate a lot of tasty food, some of which we cooked ourselves. We went on a cookery class, run by Thailand top celebrity chef, and it was ace. We were taught to cook 6 different dishes and were given a recipie book with a load more in too. My favorite of the day was the Penang curry, which I went a bit overboard with the chillis on. As well as the black sticky rice pudding. The other stuff was good and tasty too, pics have been taken. The funny thing about thailand is that everything is spicy, even the salad has chillis in it. There have been several emergency poo moments. None dor the last couple of days tho but I did just eat the hottest spicy squid salad ever so that may change.

Anyway, back to chang Mai, we also went to the zoo, which has pandas. Very cute indeed. I have a rather amusing photo of me and kate with the pandas. It has to be seen to be believed. Also, I took a short but very funny video of a flammingo doing a silly dance while searching its pond for food. It made me chuckle for quite some time. Also at the zoo was a baby hippo. That little beast defo ranks in my top ten of favorite animal that I have seen.

Also in Chang Mai we went to an elephant camp and had a ride on the beasts and got to feed them too. One of the largerones caught me off guard and swipped all the bananas and suga cane that I had! Cheeky swine, I was trying to feed its baby, I thought elephants were supposed to be good parents. Apparently not, it didn't share what it stole. Anyway, anothe batch of food cost less than a poud so i just got more and fed a more polite elephant instead. This one did tricks and had a disturing desire to kiss me several times with its trunk. Pics will follow.

Also, I have discovered a fantastic spar treatment. The fish spar. Its ace and regardless of what kate says, I'm going to build one when I get home. Basically, its a massive tank of fish that you dip your feet in and let them eat away any dead or dry skin. It is surprisingly relaxing, esspecially after a day of walking about a lot.

The last thing for Chang Mai was the night bazzar, basically a massive market. It was intersting and I got soem nice and cool cotton shirts for a reasonable price.

Oh dear, times up, gotta go. I'll report more on Samui at another time.

BTW, kev, I'm pretty sure bringing back weird food isn't allowed. I could sort you out with some chilli squid crisps if you like though.

We have left Samui now, just killing time at the airport while waiting to fly back to Bangkok. One more night there they we start the trip back tomorrow. Its going to be harsh, we have a 7 hour wait in Dubi. Think I'll sleep through most of that. Anyway, the last few days on Samui were good. I had a foot scrub and ate one of the best cheeseburgers ever. Bugger, time is almost up, didn't get much for the 10bht. Gotta go, pics will follow when I'm back.

I'm back from holidays too, I read a lot of books and zombie literature on a hammock, ate lots of local dishes (that all happen to look like kebab) and got drunk.

Every day.

That is all.

This item has been added to my wishlist, just got walking dead 12 too. Awwww yeerrrrrrrr.

Fuck that shizzle majizzle, Vuze torrents all the way!