We found some goodies!

Pa rum pa pum pum. Little drummer boys.
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Today was fun!  We went to a temple up on the mountain... the temperature was so great - like SF.  And I didn't get the mosquito bites that I was expecting.  We saw this little troupe of drummer boys.  There was also this little old lady monk that was the most adorable person that I have ever seen.  Like a cartoon character, but cuter.

Then!  We went to Talat Warorot, a market that was for people who live here and not mainly tourists.  Such a better experience than many other markets we've seen.  We found the coconut cream custard things that Christina recommended... it was so soft and delicate inside and the outside was nice and crispy on the inside, just how I like it.  It was mostly sweet, but it had a fair amount of saltiness that worked really well.  And then they gave us the custards in this really cute tray made of leaves.  The woman at the stand folded it this way and then that way, stuck a few toothpicks in it, and then it was this nice tray.  She also wrapped up some sugar in another leaf.  That made these things even more fun!

then they gave us the custards in this really cute tray made of leaves. The woman at the stand folded it this way and then that way, stuck a few toothpicks in it, and then it was this nice tray

Woman pouring batter for coconut crispy custard things.
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We also ate these fried doughnut things that were filled with mung bean paste.  We also found those mung bean candies shaped like fruit that Christina talked about - they're like marzipan, but with mung beans instead of almonds.  Brian and I liked them, but Jenni and Mark could do without them.  We also found these other fried coconut things.  They had shredded coconut and were in this coconutty, chewy batter.  And then fried and crispy on the outside.

We also got some jackfruit.  Again, B and I liked them but J and M didn't.  Maybe these candies and jackfruit are a Chinese thing.

The final presentation in the tricky leaf trays.
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I also found some mango that kinda looked like the kind that Christina recommended that I try, the one that is kinda like avocado.  So I bought it to try it.  I don't think this was the right kind... it was more like a combination between an Asian pear and a mango, but a bland Asian pear.  We did try to ask what kind of mango it was, but they just kept saying it was a Thai mango.  We'll try again.