Chatuchak Market (Bangkok, Thailand)

I know I have done several posts from my past visits on Chatuchak Weekend Market, but what can I say? It is one of my favorite places in the world. This market has EVERYTHING. It was so hard to not buy a luggage full of goodies since this was just the first stop on my travel itinerary. Some of the odd items I ended up buying, which I now have to carry around for the rest of my trip, include a large ceramic serving dish and a map if South East Asia. Smart move. But I would regret it if I didn't buy it. 

Fell in love with all this dishware

Squid

BBQ pork

Quail eggs

Halal food

Sights and Smells of Beijing

My Forbidden City ice cream snack: red bean ice cream. The picture sure doesn't look like red bean though. I thought it was some sort of berry compote. I love red bean anything though so I was happy.

Peach, cherry and grape Tropicana

Drinking tea while having my feet soaked in an herb foot bath. It was probably just tea too.

Noodles...with what turned out to be cow rectum.

Deep fried Chinese doughnut

Sampling some tea at a tea house

My salty green tea (the white foamy stuff tasted like foamed cream cheese)

Yum yum mushrooms

Beautiful baby tomatoes

Love the colors

Kickin it old school

Love this

Wanfujung Street (Beijing, China)

My first night in Beijing I decided I had to venture off to find Wanfujing Street, aka the notorious street filled with both high end fashion stores and outrageous street food.

Entrance into the street food alley

Fruit squwers before they get coated in hot melted sugar

Pork satay

Veggie and chicken dumplings. I bought 3 for 10 Yuan. They weren't very good. I was expecting the outside to be nice and chewy with a but of crisp, instead they were hard.

Corn dogs?

I thought this was pretty funny, it's like their version of pasta in tomato sauce. Instead its glutinous rice flour tubes in a tomato soup-like sauce.

Birds?

This is the type of stuff Wanfujing Street is known for...random animals and insects on a stick! I think the thing on the left is some sort of crustacean and the one on the left is definitely silk worm

That's right, you read it correctly

Starfish, seahorses, scorpions etc

Scorpions

Green tea soft serve (6 Yuan). It was yummy. They also had a jasmine tea flavored one but when I went back for more they had sold out. Boo.

Yes, again, you read that correctly

These looked sooooooo good...and pretty!

Beringharjo Market (Jogyakarta, Indonesia)

Jogyakarta is the batik capital of Indonesia and there is enough of it here to probably clothe everyone in the world. Batik, for those who are unfamiliar is a traditional Indonesian textile that is made either by stamp press or hand painted with hot wax. The hot wax is used to draw a design on material then dyed, it's sort of like tye-dye.

Rows and rows of batik clothes

Traditional Indonesian kebayas. These ones a little fancier than the average however, especially the tacky green one on the right.

Hair buns, fake detachable ones that is.

Shoes galore

What market is complete without food? Here is some noodles with fried birds..yes I said bird, not chicken.

Pecel: steamed veggies with spicy peanut sauce

Kolak: a dessert made with a mix of coconut cream (top left), tapioca (bottom left), palm sugar syrup (bottom right), and candied sweet potato/pumpkin. Yummy.