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S & E Asia 178 - N Thailand 36: Golden Triangle: Ban Doi Sa-Ngo: Lunch/Opium museum
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Nov 29, 2022 10:24:57   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
yssirk123 wrote:
Very nice set Joe!


Thank you very much Bill for your comment.

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Nov 29, 2022 10:26:23   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
jaymatt wrote:
Nice, interesting, well-done shots, Joe.


Thank you John, glad you liked the shots.

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Nov 29, 2022 10:27:03   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
J-SPEIGHT wrote:


Thank you Jack for these positive thumbs!

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Nov 29, 2022 10:29:43   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
Don W-37 wrote:
Great set. Very interesting. Been up that way a number of time, but not to those specific places. Thanks for posting!
Cheers,
Don
Bangkok


Thank you Don for your nice comment, good to hear from you again and glad to hear that you enjoyed this set of areas that you are very familiar with!

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Nov 29, 2022 13:05:04   #
merrytexan Loc: georgia
 
weberwest wrote:
Our destination for lunch was the "Le Vallee" artist residence, gallery and restaurant, run by a Thai woman who had lived in France and spoke perfect French. We had time to explore the grounds, view some of her paintings and then enjoyed an interesting lunch basically al fresco: under a covered roof just in case of rain, but with open walls, as it is quite customary here in these tropical locations.

After lunch, we moved on with our iron buffalo trucks to the nearby town of Sop Ruak at the confluence of the Ruak with the Mekong rivers, where we visited an interesting small privately owned museum dedicated to the world of opium.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to THIS SERIES on SOUTH & EAST ASIA. See it at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-724330-1.html

THAILAND COUNTRY INFO in set # 143: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-755664-1.html

GOLDEN TRIANGLE INFO in set # 173: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-758433-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

Thanks for visiting, for improved clarity please view the downloads. I look forward to your comments and questions.

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Our destination for lunch was the "Le Vallee&... (show quote)


Beautiful shots, joe , and y'all's pic just happied me up!

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Nov 29, 2022 13:05:42   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
lnl wrote:
That’s a nice photo of you and Susan and your smiling, happy faces. Nicely presented food as well. What are the wrapped leaves on the plates?
As ever, there are so many colorful places in your photos. I appreciate all the color! An opium museum? Did they provide samples?!


Thanks Ellen, glad you liked this set and our happily smiling faces - that's how we often look like when we get food on the table! I just checked with Susan as to the content of those wrapped leaves, and we both really don't know, but assume that it is some kind of a vegetable. The small parts of a food plate are often wrapped in banana, lotus or other leaves, particularly often used for rice, as you can see in these two pictures. Since there are no veggies on the plate, we assume that some sort of a vegetable side dish might have been in the still wrapped parcels.

Opium museum with samples??? Good question, who knows. Definitely not openly, and seriously I would doubt it anyway, but the world is full of mysteries, isn't it? I do understand that poppy cultivation in Thailand to produce opium has been very much eradicated in Thailand itself, but apparently still exists to a smaller degree in Laos and especially Myanmar.

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Nov 29, 2022 13:07:54   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
merrytexan wrote:
Beautiful shots, joe , and y'all's pic just happied me up!


Thank you merry, I am very happy to hear that you liked the images in this set, and also that our "old pic" from 2013 happied you up - let the joy continue for the entire day and week!

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Nov 29, 2022 13:19:40   #
merrytexan Loc: georgia
 
weberwest wrote:
Thank you merry, I am very happy to hear that you liked the images in this set, and also that our "old pic" from 2013 happied you up - let the joy continue for the entire day and week!



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Nov 29, 2022 13:50:42   #
Umnak Loc: Mount Vernon, Wa.
 
Very enjoyable as usual Joe! I really like that you and Susan got into the series!! Fun to see your smiling faces during this excellent journey!
I'm curious what was wrapped in the ?banana/plantain leaves? Both meals look appetizing in any case!
Rob

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Nov 29, 2022 14:13:48   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
Umnak wrote:
Very enjoyable as usual Joe! I really like that you and Susan got into the series!! Fun to see your smiling faces during this excellent journey!
I'm curious what was wrapped in the ?banana/plantain leaves? Both meals look appetizing in any case!
Rob


Thanks Rob, glad you enjoyed this set also. I try to get Susan and sometimes myself into the picture now and then, but not often, don't like the idea of making this a family album. Normally I do it when the theme fits with what we are doing - in this case you can see a bit of the restaurant background, but mainly I think I used the picture as a "filler" to round out the ten pictures.

As explained to Ellen (lnl) just a few posts above, we don't really remember or know what was in these leave packets, but assume that it might be a vegetable related side-dish, as this is missing on the plate.

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Nov 29, 2022 18:18:06   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
👍👍👍👍

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Nov 29, 2022 18:29:39   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
ecobin wrote:
👍👍👍👍


Thanks for looking, Elliott

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Nov 29, 2022 20:03:27   #
lnl Loc: SWFL
 
weberwest wrote:
Thanks Ellen, glad you liked this set and our happily smiling faces - that's how we often look like when we get food on the table! I just checked with Susan as to the content of those wrapped leaves, and we both really don't know, but assume that it is some kind of a vegetable. The small parts of a food plate are often wrapped in banana, lotus or other leaves, particularly often used for rice, as you can see in these two pictures. Since there are no veggies on the plate, we assume that some sort of a vegetable side dish might have been in the still wrapped parcels.

Opium museum with samples??? Good question, who knows. Definitely not openly, and seriously I would doubt it anyway, but the world is full of mysteries, isn't it? I do understand that poppy cultivation in Thailand to produce opium has been very much eradicated in Thailand itself, but apparently still exists to a smaller degree in Laos and especially Myanmar.
Thanks Ellen, glad you liked this set and our happ... (show quote)



It’s good to see you’re happy with good food. We are too!

I didn’t really expect free “samples” at the opium museum. Just an educational experience about how it’s grown and evolves from poppies to opium.

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Nov 29, 2022 20:18:22   #
weberwest Loc: Ferndale WA
 
lnl wrote:
It’s good to see you’re happy with good food. We are too!

I didn’t really expect free “samples” at the opium museum. Just an educational experience about how it’s grown and evolves from poppies to opium.


I guess that's what it was - getting details on the process. I am not really very much of a museum person, so while picture opportunities stay in my mind, what I see in a museum normally goes in on one eye and out of the other - or something like that .... - But then food, yes, that is something with which my appreciation and hence my memory works better .... so I guess the content of these mysterious leaf-covered packages wasn't something too striking.

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Nov 29, 2022 22:40:09   #
Susan yamakawa
 
What a country👍😊

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