Sunday, March 15, 2009
Night Market in Chiang Mai and My Fortune Teller
Tonight I received an sms from my friend Andy, whom I met through my friend who I have been staying with, inviting me to go with him to the Night Market here in Chiang Mai. Andy is from England and does Human Rights work here in Chiang Mai.
He picked me up around 5pm on his motorbike and I hopped on the back, off we went to the Night Market.
There are many wonderful food stalls ranging from fresh fruit juice, barbeque, fried bugs, various kinds of thai food, arts, and crafts here at this market.
I will come back here often, as it is a great place to meet people as well, depending on your mood I guess. I can walk here very easily from my apartment, maybe it will take 20 minutes or so.
Andy decided to take me to the main temple where they have live traditional Thai music, many food stalls ranging from Japanese food to barbeque, and anything you can imagine really. There is too much variety for me to tell you everything. The food prices never really go above ฿35; that's less than $1. After we finished eating, we were on our way out of the temple when I noticed there were fortune tellers sitting at tables.
I immediately noticed there were 3 separate kinds of fortune tellers; a woman palm reader, on elderly man, and a tarot card reader. I had a feeling about the elderly man, so I asked Andy to help with translating from Thai to English. Andy speaks Thai almost fluently, I am inspired by him very much.
Andy agreed to help me with the translation and we were with the fortune teller for at least 1 hour. The fortune teller told me to come back anytime on Sundays, even gave me his cell phone number, to speak with him and to bring a Thai friend along so that he can translate for me, he has more things he wants to tell me and he needs a native speaker to help. He mostly works in the temples and I wish to keep everything about it private though, even down to how he did everything, in respect to him and his gift.
I am looking forward to living here in Chiang Mai.
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3 comments:
I'll take 5 silk worms please! MMMMMM
yummy!
Well, I bet they are pretty tasty! I didn't try them, I wasn't hungry...
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