Things that are just a little bit different...

Who knew that Ronald McDonald could greet you with a wai?  Well, he does in Thailand!  Here you can get a pineapple or corn "apple pie" as well as a rice dish with a fried egg on top.  And the ice cream cones are considerably cheaper, like 9 baht each, with equals somewhere around 30 cents. :)

Orchids grow everywhere, wrapped around trees and offering floral beauty to the passerby.  

You can buy just about anything at a market... Including fish that are still alive and swimming in their bags.  I've seen live lobster at the store before, but never live and squirming fish in a bag! A picture doesn't do justice to the image or the smell of this scene, but the back black bags on this picture are full of live little fishies.

Corn... We call it "sweet corn" in the states, but we still seem to consider it a vegetable.  Well, here they take the "sweet" in sweet corn very literally, and it is a dessert item.  You can get corn in dessert waffles (very yummy), corn pies at McDonalds as already mentioned, battered and deep fried corn kernels at the end of a buffet line, corn hard candy, and best of all, corn sundaes... This tasted mostly like ice cream with creamed corn poured over the top, but it was not all bad, just a little corny.

Eggs are sold in 10 packs, not a dozen.  And eggs are never refrigerated, just out for sale on the shelf.  You can always buy little, cute looking quail eggs as well.  And the dyed eggs are thankfully clearly designated eggs that have been treated in a special solution for maybe a 100 days, until the egg is black and gelatinous inside.  Fun to look at, but I will pass on the purchase and eating of these special eggs. 

And who really needs a separate area for a shower or a shower curtain?  Warm running water still gets you clean, and this way you wash the floor on a daily basis too, as well as the sink, and anything else that might end up in te general vicinity. All is well until you want to walk back into the bathroom later and keep your feet dry...

As I write this, more and more things come to mind that could be included in this post, and Mike has several ideas as well, so this may actually post 1 of 2, or 3 or 4... But then again, some things you might just have to come and experience for yourself!  We don't want to give it all away!