We slept like logs last night — likely still due to jet-lag, which has been keeping us up well past midnight. A refreshing change from me starting to yawn at 10pm back home! I woke up around 11 am 
, so our planned recon mission to the Thai Street FKA Thai park got off to a later start.
As we’d anticipated, the place was a shadow of its former self 
. The number of vendors was reduced by at least 75%, resulting in stupid lines at booths offering almost identical stuff: pad thai, pad kra pao, wings,… and no sign of “my” soup lady. Sigh.
I suppose we had a decent enough run, spending many a weekend afternoon lounging on picnic blankets with friends (we introduced so many of our US peeps to the park!)while snacking on fried grasshoppers, guay tiew, dumplings, and som tam or mango salad with roast duck & sipping on caipirinhas or mojitos ever since we learned about the place 12 odd years ago. At least we found a new address for very good Thai food in 2023, even though it’s a haul from our current locash.
“Breakfast” was therefore at home… around 2:30pm — more jet-lag nonsense 
As for dinner, a proper traditional German Spargel meal was on the menu: about 2/3 of a lbs of white asparagus, a few local new potatoes, Schinkenspeck, and melted butter with fresh parsley.
It doesn’t get much simpler than that. My personal tradition dictates that each fork needs to have all 3 components (Spargel, taters, ham) before entering my mouf — probably the only meal I get really OCD over 
I snoozed on picking up a nice Riesling or Grüner Veltliner, so a crisp Grillo from the box had to do.
