foooood

you know you've been living in rice country too long when ...

- you eat a peanut butter sandwich and savor every bite

- you sadly daydream about grilled cheese sandwiches and promise to never take them for granted ever again

- you invent new ways to eat noodles (weird green noodles made with egyptian herbs from japan bought at the mini mart next door mixed in with pork and beans? yeah. how's that for international?)

and yet despite all your longings and fantasies for sourdough bread, rye bread, french bread, dinner rolls, garlic bread, mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, scalloped potatoes, PIZZA, you know you've been living in rice country too long when..

- you can totally appreciate a steaming plate of fluffy white rice set in front of you

- you order fried rice in a restaurant

- you voluntarily eat rice for breakfast: as a soup, as a kanom, with last night's leftovers.

ah rice. it's what's for dinner. and breakfast. and lunch. and snack.

so... gin kao reu yang? (have you eaten rice yet?)