Up at a normal time this morning, well, 5:45. Hey, we’re getting better! Ed goes to the gym, I stay here managing email and blogging. Then we head over to Warorot Market, the Chinese market, to peruse all the fruit and veggies (we’re not buying until we finish our honey oranges and rose apples) and to find ChiangMai sausage for lunch. We wander around that place for 2 hours! It is amazing- the fresh fish, poultry, meat and candy, sweets, spices. Anything you’d want is there. We resist all temptations, except the sausage – and the little rice krispie type treats that I’m addicted to!
We also peruse all the clothes and wallets and purses. We’ll be heading back here later to shop for those! I do pick up a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses for 49 baht ($1.50) and see some others I really like for 129 ($4). Will come back for those later too!
We hang out at home for the afternoon. Have salad (me) and eggs and sausage (Ed) for lunch. Then go out to find our restaurant and nail salon. Huge disappointment! They are gone. As a matter of fact the entire complex in which they were located is gone. And I mean gone, torn down, nothing left but overgrown grass and the cracked cement parking area and drive! In its place – at least at the entrance on Chang Klan road – is a building with a model of condos that are going to be built! What a shame. It is even hard to see where the original buildings were located. The only way we can see it is to walk all the way around, down the next road to the Girl Scout complex and peek over a fence they have erected to hide the construction. I’m so sad.
Back on the street, we sort of meander about – find the $1 pad thai restaurant, and hit the 7-11 for small beers, then scoot back to the condo. Now I’ll be on a search for a new nail place….not that I won’t have choices, they are everywhere, but I so loved those girls at the one around the corner. Oh well, everything can’t remain the same.
We sort of while away the afternoon, then head into the old town to go to Dash’s Teak House for dinner. It gets pretty good reviews – and it looks totally cool. A traditional Thai Teak house that has been converted into a restaurant. It’s back on this little Soi (street) that has tons of restaurants and bars, but we don’t remember it from either of our last times here. We walk over, a nice hike, but it is still so cool, that it’s not an issue walking around – especially in the evening.
It’s a gorgeous old 2 story Teak house with dining options on the first and second floors, as well as in the gardens.
Of course we want to sit at the small bar on the first floor – but that apparently is not happening. The girls seating us are ignoring our request and then the owner’s son (who runs the place) ignores it as well. Ok – we’re going upstairs!
It’s not a big deal – upstairs was originally Thai style seating on the floor, but now has tables and chairs, just no shoes allowed. We’re ok with that. We settle in, order beer and wine, then an appetizer of fried pork to start. All very yummy!
Once we are done with the pork, we put in our main orders- stir fried 
pork with cashews and vegetables for me, and a whole sea bass, fried with garlic for Ed. It’s a bit pricey (well for us, I mean, really, the thing costs 295 b which is like $9US, the pork is about $3US, so we’re splurging!). We hang out, listening to a singer they have downstairs, and in a bit my pork comes out. It is really great – lots of veggies, lots of meat.
The only problem is the fish doesn’t come. And it doesn’t come. And it doesn’t come. They have this tag team sort of wait service system, so the same girl doesn’t wait on you all the time, and regardless, they are really hard to catch when they come upstairs. So, after about 1/2 hour of waiting, after we’ve been done with the pork, I head downstairs to capture Mr. Owner’s Son. It’s crazy down there- really busy – but I finally get him and ask him about the fish. The first thing he said is that they have run out of some of the fish – oh please, don’t even go there! Then he decides the fried fish is still there and goes back in the kitchen and starts yelling. He comes back and tells me they have it but just seemed to miss it and it will be up shortly. Ok. We’ll see.
He comes up a few minutes later, 
extremely apologetic and tells us he’s giving us 20% off our bill. Plus he offers us a free dessert. We decline the dessert but tell him he can substitute another beer. And he does. The fish finally comes and is delicious (worth the wait, maybe not, but still incredibly good!).
Once we’re done, and finally get the check, it is in fact 20% less. And a free beer, so all is well. We go downstairs to leave, and Mr. Owner’s Son is there (whose name is Dash, thus the restaurant name, we know he speaks 4 languages, because I asked…but…still….), and he asks us how long we are in Chiang Mai. We tell him a month, and he says he’d like us to try Dash’s again – which we are willing to do – and he also says he’ll get us to try a dessert! Well, the challenge is on LOL.
As we are walking out –heading back to the Moat Road to find a Tuk Tuk – one pulls up and lets off a passenger. Serendipity! We grab him and he whisks us back to Twin Peaks. Ah, the beauty of a $3 Tuk Tuk ride at the end of a long evening!
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