All photos courtesy Ayoung Kim

7:00AM

I took some photos on local streets. Morning rush with people buying breakfast and/or lunch packed to-go which they’ll eat at home or at work. The streets are lined with vendors offering different items: fried Chinese donuts, Thai curries, vegetables, rice + meat combinations. The young man above waits in the queue by scrolling on his phone, seated on his motorbike. The stall in front of him specializes in grilled items: grilled pork & chicken skewers, grilled eggs, sausages.

These people select various pre-bagged food to go. A person waits behind them with a bill already in hand (pink colored bill).

12PM

This is the food court in a mall. This stall offers various Thai salads such as papaya salad, noodle salad, herb salad–all spicy. Large bowls of curries–likely spicy. Grilled eggs, three-to-a-skewer. People poke a hole on one end and drain the raw egg whites and yolks. Recipes vary, but they usually add a touch of fish sauce and spices, then pour the egg blend back into the shells. They are steamed first, then grilled to eat hot.

Aesthetic decorations with customer seating provided throughout the food court, not only sectioned off to one large seating area.

Love the decorations in the food court.

A white cat lives in the parking lot of my apartment. I often see a tenant feeding and brushing him in addition to rocking the cat in his arms like a baby. Here, one of the cleaners of the apartment is giving the cat a belly rub. Perhaps she owns the cat, or a collective takes care of him? In any case, this cat doesn’t suffer any lack of love.

Love these bells, customarily seen in Buddhist temples. In this shop, customers can buy them to decorate their homes.