While in Bangkok, there was this
interesting restaurant I went with my family for an authentic Thai cuisine.
Didn’t realize that the mannequins that I saw at the entrance were dressed in
colorful condoms until I touched the rubbery strips.
The safe sex message was loud and
clear and screamed from every article displayed at this Sukumvit eatery, in the
lampshades, flower bouquets, wall hangings, dinner plates, toothpicks, and even
in the different articles sold in the souvenir shop at the entrance of this
restaurant.
While Bangkok is renowned for sex
trade it also has an incredible spiritual side with beautiful temples at every
junction. This place is a brazen shrine to all things safe sex.
While in Bangkok, coconut water
is must. It’s so sweet and delicious. I have relished it almost every day. So
this was the first drink that arrived at our tables as soon as we settled down
for a cool drink
The Thai cuisine served in this
restaurant is excellent and authentic. Steamed crabmeat with vegetables and
basil, satays in peanut sauce, spicy tom yum soup, sticky rice, stuffed fish,
and there was wide selection of vegetarian Thai cuisine for my pure vegetarian
family.
I specially loved ‘Mieng Thum’,
that had lemon, dried shrimps, peanuts, deep fried coconut, ginger, green
chili, shallots wrapped in betel nut leaf.
On out way out I was most amused
by this
It turns out that the story
behind ‘Cabbages and Condoms’ is a fantastic one; it is actually an
organization that has spearheaded the safe sex movement in Thailand, saving
thousands of life in the process.
Do visit it when in Bangkok…..
