This is the rainy season here. It rained about 4 hours yesterday afternoon, and today it
has been drizzling and raining ALL day.
I contacted my "friend" from the bus trip up here, and I hired him to walk around town
today and tell me about the town. There were some things I wanted to know that his English
vocabulary just couldn't handle. But it was still very interesting.
I've sent a few pictures. Nothing exciting, just life in a small mountain town.
One picture is of a little neighborhood store/tea house/ noodle shop with a dirt floor.
Then the noodles that go into noodle soup, a noodle soup shop, then my hotel room and bath,
then the grocery store to buy eggs.
The eggs here cost $1.48 cents a dozen and you see what they look like.
About noodle soup. I'm telling ya, that is the primary meal around here! And it is made
up one bowl at a time.
The cook has all the ingredients out on a table. She gets the bowl you will be served in,
and adds precooked noodles , adds seasonings, maybe chicken pieces, leaves of all sorts,
then adds hot water and stirs it a little. It's very efficient and quick, and no extra
bowls are used! Plus it is a large bowl. To eat it you get a funny little spoon, or a
regular large table spoon and chop sticks.
All the noodle soups I have had, are all very similar in taste and makeup, and all are
very tasty.
The Hotel Phonsali is the largest Hotel in town. As stated yesterday it cost $7.40 a night.
In my bathroom I have a "no-run", no jiggle the handle, type toilet. The large trashcan
next to the toilet with a dipper in it is for flushing. The more and faster you dip - the
better it flushes. The can is filled by the shower hose you can barely see on the right
side of the bath above the can. Not seen in picture of the wall mounted on demand
electric hot water heater. it works very well, but the room is just about too cold to take
a shower!
So far, from the time I left Luang Prabang til now I have seen no westerners. I met a business man from Singapore this morning . He was Chinese but spoke good English.
All for now -- from Phongsali
Johnny
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