So you want me to be Adventurous?

I can't tell you how many times I have had people (friends..lol) in the states tell me how fun it'll be to be able to try new foods. Obviously they don't know me to well. I don't try new dishes at the same resturaunts I go to. I rarely try new resturaunts at all and when I do I order something 'safe'. I don't like new flavors. I DESPISE ginger and curry.  I'm in Asia...ginger and curry is all they know how to cook with here.  I have also learned that things are not always as they seem. You may go to a 'western' resturarunt but 9 times out of 10, they put an asian flair to it. So even if you think you are ordering 'bbq'd chicken', it's probably got SOMETHING about it that is asian.

The foods have been the hardest thing for me to get used to here. I really wish you could smell these pictures...the food courts that I took these in. The first couple of days here, it was everything I could do not to vomit at the smells.

Raelee is funny....at home, if she can order spaghetti, she is fine..she can eat anywhere. Here, it's fried rice. If either of us don't see fried rice for a year, we'll probably be just fine.

My favorite meals here have been McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Chili's, the Hawker Stand (mom has found a good place there to order that you can ask for it with no ginger), and Mom's cooking. Now..I must say that even mom and dad cooking is a gamble. Their cooking is always good, but the meat isn't always the best and you are at the mercy of whatever the meat may taste like. Dad cooked hamburgers that had the texture of a fine grit sand paper...not his fault...just bad meat.

So here are some pictures for you. I wish you could smell it..really, I do. Maybe you would understand why my favorite meals have mostly been American fast food.