aarrggg why is goat cheese so expensive in America?

Agreed. After living in Italy for a while, Asian chees and Asian pizza just don't do it for me. Send me some, please.

 

mozzarella di bufala, good GOD, that's good stuff.

and manchego. so awesome on my pinto beans.

 

Oh yes, I almost forgot about them Asian pizzas. Although the yummy Asian foods make up for a lot.

 

Shut up.

Thai food is fucking great. They eat everything and every dish is so full of flavour. It amazes me that they can make pizza taste so fucking bland. Grated, I've only ever tried it once.

 

They just think that is the way us falangs like it.

 

Falang food is rubbish. I once got given some Somtam(spicy papaya salad) with not even a single chilli in it. when I asked the guy about it, he told me that falangs couldn't eat chillis.

 

Yeah I heard that many times too. So I usually try to stay out of the typical falang restaurants and dine either on the street or with the locals in them long-tabled or one-tabled places.

 

Yeah, where I'm living now there are no falang places. The food is great. At my school, I still get asked sometimes by visiting teachers whether I can eat rice. Spmetimes it feels like I'm from another planet not just another country.

 

Whereabout in Thailand are you living?

 

how do you pronounce "falang"? like it reads?

 

Yes, but with a gayish Thai accent.

Edit: not the American feh-leng, but more like fah-lahng.

 

About 15kms outside of Ubon Ratchathani, in the NE close to the Laos and Cambodian border. Only foreigners we see are one-nighters in the city ontheir way to or from Laos.

 

I have been there a few years ago when I took a boat from Laos to cross into Thailand. I believe I went directly to Chiang Mai from there.

Edit: oh wait, I am wrong. I mistook that for another place, up in the most NE corner of Thailand near the Laos and Burmese border.

 

I love cheese and goat cheese is one of my favorites. My roommate read me something
about how cheese contains morphine the other day, because I was talking how addicted I am to it.

I found this online, http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/barnard_food_seduction.htm

"Well, in 1981, Eli Hazum and his colleagues at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., reported a remarkable discovery. Analyzing samples of cow's milk, they found traces of a chemical that looked very much like morphine. They put it to one chemical test after another. And, finally, they arrived at the conclusion that, in fact, it is morphine. There is not a lot of it and not every sample had detectable levels. But there is indeed some morphine in both cow's milk and human milk.

Morphine, of course, is an opiate and is highly addictive. So how did it get into milk? At first, the researchers theorized that it must have come from the cows' diets. After all, morphine used in hospitals comes from poppies and is also produced naturally by a few other plants that the cows might have been eating. But it turns out that cows actually produce it within their bodies, just as poppies do. Traces of morphine, along with codeine and other opiates, are apparently produced in cows' livers and can end up in their milk.

But that was only the beginning, as other researchers soon found. Cow's milk-or the milk of any other species, for that matter-contains a protein, called casein, that breaks apart during digestion to release a whole host of opiates, called casomorphins. A cup of cow's milk contains about six grams of casein. Skim milk contains a bit more, and casein is concentrated in the production of cheese.

If you examined a casein molecule under a powerful microscope, it would look like a long chain of beads (the "beads" are amino acids-simple building blocks that combine to make up all the proteins in your body). When you drink a glass of milk or eat a slice of cheese, stomach acid and intestinal bacteria snip the casein molecular chains into casomorphins of various lengths. One of them, a short string made up of just five amino acids, has about one-tenth the pain-killing potency of morphine."

 

Yeah you arrived at Chiang Khong in Thailand, I'd imagine, on the way to Chiang Mai. What did you think of Laos. I love it.

I'm not there though. I'm about as far east of Bangkok as you can go before you hit Laos. It's actually the east but they call it the NE.

 

I do love Laos, but there are only a few tourist hotspots that are terrible. Like the constant Friends reruns in, I believe, Vang Vien. Vientiane is one of the best capitals I have ever been too and you can get some great Indian food there, since after a whilst I got tired of the typical soup.

All in all it was nice though, although I still don't know what to think of Savannahket.

 

Vang Vieng is weird, It's so beautiful, yet everybody just sits around watching TV. I don't get it. It doesn't say much for the overuse of marijuana, that's for sure.
Savann was one of the few places I didn't really like. I got fined by the cops twice and the only bar in town was aggresively gay.

 

I just made a good lunch:

baguette cut in half

than put

pasta sauce
fresh mozzarella
veggie ground (like ground beef but veggie)
lil bit of onions (sometimes I use to much, I love them but sometimes they overpower the dish)
basil
and of course GOAT cheese

10 minutes in the oven

I just love the rich texture GC adds to everything!

and plain non flavored yogurt with chopped strawberries and an apple to finish off .

and a little slice of goat cheese .