Young Thai Coconut

We went to SF to pick up the boy from his month long stay at his mother's.














I love Golden Gate Park. Hippie Hill Rocks.



Shopping in San Francisco is so much better. We stayed at the boy's mom's apartment in the Tenderloin. Half a block from her place is a Viet Namese market that I used to frequent when I lived in that neighborhood years ago. I don't miss the sirens at 2am or the steaming puddles of human excreta, but I do miss the produce and spice markets. You just can't get this stuff in Kfalls.

Among other things, we got a flat of 9 young Thai coconuts for about $12
















We got a bunch of lychee fruit, about a dollar a pound

















Sesame oil which is for drizzling, not for frying. Vegetarian shrimp which are made from yam flour and are surprisingly shrimp-like. Preserved orange peel which is salty AND sour. Seaweed strips which can be snacked out of the bag, soaked and used like noodles or cut up in stir-fry. These were between 50c and $1.79 each.
















Coconut and banana raw picnic at a rest stop in California.




That's MIL, the boy and the man.








The man is an expert coconut opener.


Vegetarian shrimp, carrots, onion, garlic, sea vegetables (dulse and nori) and rice
















Carrots, seaweed, dandelion leaves, potatoes and rice.














Both of the above "stir-fried" dishes were prepared with vegetable broth in place of the oil.

It's good to be home. I wish I could go once a month to SF for shopping.