The 80 Baht Challenge

I was going to blog about my bowel movements during this little experiment of going culinarily local, but then thought I might lose my only reader. So mom, because I appreciate my fan, I'll just blog about all the great deals I find on cheap food in Mae Sot and my mood swings as a result of being cheese, coffee, and pastry deprived.

*For detailed pictures of various dishes referenced below, see my challenge comrades blog http://writingoutloud.tumblr.com/

DAY 1 - 78 Baht ($2.59)
Breakfast: 18 Baht (59 cents) - Flatbread, bean curry, chick peas, and tea
Lunch: 30 Baht ($1) - Pad See Ew...And ewww is right! This is the last time I spend almost half my daily allowance on a noodle dish the size of my palm. I left starving and angry.
Dinner: 30 Baht ($1) - Bamii noodle soup...worth every Baht.

DAY 2 - 75 Baht ($2.42)
Breakfast: 10 Baht (32 cents) - Hua Fai Mohingha ....might make this a morning ritual. What ever will I do with a whole 70 Baht left for the day!
Lunch: 25 Baht (81 cents) - Kao Mung Gai "tamada"...couldn't splurge for the pi set
Snack: 10 Baht (32 cents) - A bunch of bananas...these should ease the hunger pangs for the rest of the week
Dinner: 25 Baht (32 cents) - Kao Soi
Dessert: 5 Baht (16 cents) - Coconut Macaroon Muffin

DAY 3 - 73 Baht ($2.36)
Breakfast: 13 Baht (42 cents) - flatbread and Burmese tea
Lunch: 15 Baht (49 cents) - pumpkin and eggplant curry, rice, flatbread
Snack: 15 Baht (29 cents) - Burmese tea, potato samosas
Dinner: 20 Baht (65 cents) - Pad Kpoa with sticky rice...if you shovel this in your mouth right before playing an hour long soccer game, you feel so sick that you feel full!
Dessert: 10 Baht (32 cents) - Banana and coconut sticky rice cake...what the hell do you call those things?

DAY 4 - 80 Baht ($2.60)
Breakfast: 17 Baht (55 cents) - Chickpea wrapped ni flat bread...I like to call it a Burmese breakfast burrito.
Lunch: 23 Baht (75 cents) - Fake meat curry wrapped in flat bread with a side of fried ginger rice ball.
Dinner: 40 Baht ($1.30) - Mataba and cucumber over saffron and clove rice...you may wonder why so expensive? But you get serenaded with the call to prayer from the mosque across the street twice in one meal!