Hello All, I have no idea where to start, so I might as well talk about food, as my never-ending struggle to find edible food consumes so much of my energy. My initial enthusiasm for Thai food has thoroughly dissipated as I confront the mind-numbing, or rather, stomach-numbing, lack of variety and lack of flavour available to me. I usually eat either rice with vegetables or rice noodles with vegetables for lunch and dinner. I can’t have soup because they use a meat-based broth. Every single street stall uses the same vegies - cauliflower, carrot, some lettucy thing. Sometimes, when I’m really lucky, I get asparagus or tomatoes or cucumber. There is no sauce. No sauce!! It’s an outrage. It’s a crime against foodmanity. Instead, the vegies are just really oily - eww - and I
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