Farewell Lunch

Tewtip arranged a “farewell lunch” for me today. It was at the same seafood restaurant that we went to a few weeks ago when Lisa and Steve were here from Boston. Definitely a local place – I was certainly the only non-Asian there.

The restaurant overlooks a small canal and there were several large monitor lizards lounging around out there – a little cool and a little creepy. (Good thing we didn't order anything that might have actually been lizard!)

Again the food was really tasty – pad thai with shrimp, fried whole sea bass, mackerel in tamarind and garlic sauce, and lots of crab and shrimp.

Here are a few pictures of the people at the table – most of them are my colleagues at LMG Thailand. (A few people brought their husbands or wives, so they are mixed in there as well. )

And here is a photo of just my colleagues – took this one in the parking lot on our way out.

From left to right, they are -- Jaray, Deao, Fon, Puk, Som, Au, Joa, Goan, Tewtip, and Xianyu.

(Those are their Thai nicknames. Their real names are much, much longer. For example, Som is really Wanaporn, Puk is Tanachai, and Au is Korada. Go figure.)