Fullboy - Thailand - Korat - Fried Eggs, Sausages and Strange Soup

It was finally time to say goodbye to Brynley, a giant amongst men! (Thanks for another great time!!). We also had to say goodbye to Ayutthaya as we travelled on to Khao Yai Rainforest. As with Khao Sok rainforest, the food here was unspectacular. We actually ended up visiting a Tesco and buying a crusty loaf of bread with some German meats and Philadelphia cheese which was probably the food highlight of this area. The menu at our guesthouse stretched as far as fried rice, banana pancake and sweet and sour pork, nothing wrong with any of it but just not worth writing about.

After coming face to face (nearly!!) with wild elephants in the rainforest, we moved on to a fairly large city called Korat. We were only stopping over briefly here as we gradually wormed our way up the country. There was some interesting food to be had and I was excited to see lots of sausages being cooked at the street food stands. Supposedly the area is famous for sausages and I got stuck in straight away. The sausages looked similar to a Toulouse sausage and tasted quite salty and garlicky. We checked out the night market later on and found lots more sausages and other tasty snacks such as crunchy, fried chicken skin, very similar to pork scratchings and very delicious, especially the intermingling deep fried lime leaves. As we only snacked at the market I was still a little bit hungry so upon returning to our hotel, we stopped off at a busy little restaurant next door. Melissa ordered an intriguing fried egg salad (the first time either of us had seen this on a menu) and I opted for the innards soup, as it seemed to be their speciality. I’m a big fan of offal since living in Korea and have no aversion to eating strange bits of animal. In this case I think there was liver, kidney, brain, heart, intestine, tripe and other stuff in this rich, robust, meaty, and very manly soup. Melissa’s fried egg salad was a perfect blend of crispy fried egg that was cut into small pieces and mixed with fresh, crunchy salad leaves, sliced onion, tomato and finely chopped chilli. All in all we were very impressed with our food during our flying visit to Korat.