Pat the Expat

This was not the first time I have tried crocodile meat. I still remember (more or less) the taste of the whitish meat that I believed was pork. On that day we were at a crocodile farm, my uncle-in-law was having a clear Chinese soup, and he offered some to me without any explanation. What I, an inexperienced ten-year-old kid perceived at that time was some tight meat with a plain taste. I asked him later if it’s a pork soup. Once he told me what kind of meat I just had, I wasn’t shocked or unnerved but amazed by the experience I just gained – It wasn’t bad tough. My second time having crocodile meat was twenty years later. A restaurant in an outskirt of Bangkok provided various kinds of dishes and crocodile sauté was one of them. As my boyfriend loves trying new things and he isn’t scared to try some odd things, I ordered this special menu for us. However, we were quite upset by its tasteless meat. I believed that the restaurant use a canned meat creating this dish. A few months...

 อ่านภาษาไทยคลิก ที่นี่ Each time coming back to Thailand, Hat Yai has never been in my travel plan. However, this time I have caught a train getting here because a friend I wanted to see got a job in the city since last year. This seemed like a good deal for me who prefer traveling with local people, I then started packing again after had stayed in the same town for the whole five months because of the first spread of Covid-19. Spending over ten hours on a train from Prachuap Kirikhan brought us to Hat Yai Station in one early morning. My friend came to pick us up and presented us a breakfast in southern style like Dim Sum .  Inside the Hat Yai's train station I visited Trang many times, so I’m kind of getting used to the way that southern people have a big meal in the morning. Since in the old days, people in the southern regions have worked mostly in the sea: they go fishing after sunset and will be back to the land at dawn. To fill all used up energy, these fisherme...