''We spent several weeks in Thailand 11 years ago, and I am still thinking of the wonderful food we had .. Fortunately Eric took some cooking lessons up there so .. sometimes we are doing some Thai food diner at home .... if one day you wanna share one of those Thai diner with us with an Elephant or Tsing-Tao beer... let us know ...''

There are at least 43,000 street food vendors in Bangkok, according to the municipal government, a legion of food carts crammed into every available nook of urban real estate.

Bangkok alternatively loves and hates its food vendors. The city government banned them from certain areas because they clog traffic, block sidewalks, and encourage cockroaches and vermin to multiply in the putrid sewers that food vendors use as their trash disposal. One recent article in the Nation, a Bangkok daily, described street vendors as "parasitic elements" whose presence spawns "organized beggars, street-children gangs and hooligans who are responsible for many of the petty crimes in the city center."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/02/news/city4.php