Our Shopping Mall!!!

Every day, we go to the "shopping mall" where we can find fresh produce and an abundance of big smiles! Some of the covered shops have refrigerated soda and of course, beer and rice whiskey which seems to occupy a larger portion of the diet of men in Thailand. We are still looking for Diet Coke, which is very rare in Thailand. Every time we ask for "Diet Coke", they give us regular Coke. We soon discovered that it is called "Coke Light" and a store manager we befriended started ordering it from the nearby "big city". These markets are a daily ritual for the people of our village since processed food is not available. It gives new meaning to "foraging for food"!