201 - thailand 🐘🌦️🍽️
Hey there, !
Been in Thailand for a week for a friend's hens (congrats Lainey!). A selection of highlights:
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Top revelatory food experience - a Michelin star coconut crepe place in Old Phuket - we decided to do this food tour on like the second last day and I was 100% thinking it was a tourist trap BUT IT WASN'T it was super educational and wide-ranging - taking us to Muslim, Chinese, and Myanmar cuisines which had influences in Thai cooking, and showing us the differences across the states of Thailand. These crepes are intensely delicious - yes, they're just crepes but some of the best soft, and crispy, and sweet, and thin, and incredible crepes you'll ever have. Our tour guide took us to a ice cream vendor down the road to add to the crepes but it was highly unnecessary. So. damn. good.
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Top comfort dish from Singapore - Black pepper crab <3 This time round I realised why it was so good - strong cacio e pepe vibes - the buttery goodness from Jumbo was an absolute umami BOMB. I know Singapore Chilli Crab is The Way but this dude's getting Black Pepper every time.
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Honestly, my photos are just food and more food - here's one where we ordered WAY too much from a place called 'The Pad Thai shop', and then a cool instant noodle shop at Chilva Market that had a worldwide selection, and had a machine that would automatically provide timing and water and heat up the noodles - fantastic! I have so many more meals to show but maybe another time...:
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Cutest cat HIMA from the villa we were staying at!! She was sleepin' just before we left and look how CUTE!!!
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Vibin' with roses practicing poses :D (edited by Lainey!)
Unfortunately there are many more photos that live on an iCloud shared album which I can't access (damn you Apple!) but I'm gonna get an iPad soon so hopefully that'll be FIXED.
Chat soon :)
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✔️Real Life Recommendations
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7-Eleven Onigiri - what? I know Japan had them but finding them in Singapore and then realising that they're in Australia as well!? Absolutely game-changing - they're so cute but filling, and helped tide us over while travelling. I didn't realise how great 7-Eleven was overseas!! Highly needed and very important for us.
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Children of Time - by Adrian Tchaikovsky. My GOD it's been a long time since I've read such an awesome sci-fi book. It really just took me my first international trip in 4 years to read a BOOK. It is an incredible exploration of how evolution could have happened differently, about melding consciousnesses with AI, about the conflicts and learnings of humanity. An expansive space opera with a lovely parallel plot, and Tchaikovsky has this uncanny ability to really think across generations and what would actually change. Delicious science-fiction - highly recommended!
🚌 Adventures on the Information Super-Highway
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“We’re All Just Temporarily Abled” - this was a really cool, short blogpost about how fragile we all are; and a reminder that well, everyone's gonna be disabled in some form some time in their life.
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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos - cool? I haven't seen it on my Office365 yet but I'm definitely gonna look out for it :D
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Should you make that big life change? - xweet based on research by Stephen Levitt of Freakonomics fame - a really interesting li'l x-post (is that we call it? I've taken a liking to 'xweet') that shows how people (nb: a somewhat biased group of participants) felt about certain decisions half a year after they made them, and the impact on their happiness. The error bars were only fully positive for 'quit my job' and 'break up', and for some reason 'proposals'' had the largest variance but skewed negative. - source is Randomised experiment: If you're genuinely unsure whether to quit your job or break up, then you probably should by 80,000 hours.