Food

I know no one cares but for the record, being a vegetarian in Thailand is hell. HELL!!! Thai people put meat in everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. I have to eat stir fried vegetables with rice EVERYDAY. Literally, my only sources of protein are peanut butter and the luna bars that my amazing mom sent me. I haven’t found a single store that sells beans and there’s only one restaurant that has them on this island but it’s 15 miles away. My goal was to go vegan once I got here but it’s turned out to be impossible. Half of my diet is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and they obviously don’t have vegan bread in this country.

We miss cooking so bad!!!

Thailand is pretty backward compared to home when it comes to food prices. We were warned about this and it turned out to be true: eating at a restaurant is less expensive than buying groceries and cooking at home. And eating from a food cart (which seems to be where most Thai people get there food) is a tiny fraction of even that price. As a result, it seems that most apartments don’t have stoves, ovens or microwaves. I’ve heard that some people buy a single, plug-in burner and a microwave for cooking at home but apartments certainly don’t seem to come with them.