I love to peek into those transparent casing as I pass them by. I’m always curious as to the type of fresh fruits they have for the day, with each piece of fruit costing only a mere 10 – 20 baht per piece. They may be from the street-side, but they are really fresh and mostly quite hygienic – so don’t you worry.

I have but been lucky these few days as there’s a now a street-side vendor selling those elusive, yet tasty Farang Dongs. He is not there all mornings, but if I do see him (or rather, after much scrutiny from afar trying to figure out what’s in his cart!), I usually end up buying 2-3 of those plum guavas and start munching them right away as my breakfast while walking to the office at the same time. Those things are really yummy. My Farang Dongs are actually being sliced up in that white plastic basket looking thing, while the uncut ones, if you look closely, is right underneath that white cutting board.

I snapped these pictures with my Sony Ericsson T700 mobile phone too, by the way. The images ain’t that bad at all, eh!

As I found out, making the chapati flat bread is all about the flour. I attempted making chapati a few months ago after feeling inspired , and failed miserably. Somehow, the flour just wouldn’t stick together and my attempt at frying it turned out to be disastrous. It turned out like flat biscuits instead.

I have not given up on the idea of trying to make chapatis, though. The online demo I found looked so easy-peasy that I think I’d be an idiot not to be able to make it. I figured the type of wheat flour I bought and attempted with earlier was probably the wrong type. It was coarse. And nooooooo, I couldn’t see what the flour looked like when I bought it because it was packed in a non-transparent brown bag and royally sealed. Somehow, buying the right type and good quality wheat flour is quite a feat in this country. I was ecstatic to finally get my hands on what seemed like the right type of wheat flour recently and re-inspire myself to try it again. With the finer type of wheat flour, all I did was just adding olive oil, water and a little bit of salt to make it into dough. It’s all in the flour, I tell you.

It didn’t turn out all that bad, surprisingly. I actually successfully made a bunch of chapatis and…and…and along with keema too! I’m having such cheap thrills that we can have chapatis anytime we want now.

The only bit I did not quite enjoy is rolling it out flat. It bores the hell out of me, and I dread it. Good thing Silver Bullet enjoys this task and the fact that he is hell-bent on getting it round makes it easy for me to let him do it to get its round shape and just the way he wants it. The power of “partnership”…I dough it, he rolls it flat. Works for me!

Oh my food, glorious food. I’m still basking in my cheap thrills of my chapati success! 😀