"WHOLE FOODS"

This post is titled Whole Foods because it is about a giant grocery store on the ground floor of the biggest shopping mall in Bangkok. There was a lot of really good looking fruits and vegetables, some individually packaged, that were very expensive. There was a container of cherries: the cherries were as big as golf balls, they looked extremely juicy and tasty but they were $15 for a package of 20.

There were lots of little stations selling different kinds of stuff, fancy rice, honey, stinky soap, 50 different kinds of hot dogs, and lots of imported Western crud.

Then there were the Thai special foods, like the fried bugs. Fried cicadas, baby locusts, bamboo worms, ant larvae, silk moth pupe and others, all of which you would need a very strong drink to wash down. Mom and I tried one of the bamboo worms that the guy said all the Chinese tourists bought. Personally, it was disgusting, and since we didn't have a drink, mom and I had to run to the fruit section and pick up a sample of a candied orange.

The fruit section lots of dried and candied fruit, some of which were extremely tasty and some of which were so disgusting, like bad marichino cherries dried and injected with terible tasting food coloring.The apricots however, were one of the better tasting fruits. We were thinking about getting a small package for Dad who wasn't feeling so great at the time, until we realized they were about $12 for 20. We ate a lot of the dried fruit though.