{"id":2362,"date":"2012-08-06T04:37:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T12:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2012-08-12T05:09:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:09:26","slug":"leaving-koh-chang-back-to-trat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2362","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Koh Chang – back to Trat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday we hung around the hotel till about 2pm. \u00a0We went to the pool, came back and ordered room service (the fried fish sandwich this time) and then hung out in the lobby to use the less than reliable wifi for a couple of hours.
\nWe took a two-rows to the pier and rode the ferry back to Trat, where Sam\u2019s sister and brother-in-law picked us up.<\/p>\n

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An hour later we were down by the water again, far north of Koh Chang. \u00a0We stopped in at a little outdoor seaside restaurant and before I knew it there were plates of seafood on the table. \u00a0We met up with Sam\u2019s mother and uncle and he treated us to a the biggest seafood spectacle I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

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There was fried grouper, a plate (at least 15) of crabs, a plate of (larger) crab legs, a plate of fried mantis shrimp<\/a> and a plate of boiled mantis shrimp.<\/p>\n

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That was when I took pictures. \u00a0After I took pictures, dug in and got my hands dirty, more food kept coming. \u00a0A plate of crab fried rice came out, followed by tom luck soup, followed by a plate of prawn. \u00a0They brought out a ramekin of garlic butter for me when I said that the hot chili sauce was a bit too much.
\nIt became clear the goal was to finish as much as possible. \u00a0I had to have eaten at least: 1 fried mantis shrimp, 3 boiled mantis shrimp, 1 crab, 1 cup fried rice, 20% of the grouper and two prawn. \u00a0Then I decided to eat the fish head.<\/p>\n

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\nThen it was revealed that we could finish it off with ice cream.<\/p>\n

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Somehow we managed to cram that in as well.
\nAfterwards we went to the nearby pier.<\/p>\n

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In the photo that dark island in the distance is actually Koh Chang. \u00a0They explained that it was currently raining there, so it looks like luck was with us as the rain poured on Koh Chang and Trat both before and after our visit, but not during.
\nWe left the pier and headed to Sam\u2019s Aunt and uncles house (a different uncle than the one that just treated us to the seafood dinner) where Sam\u2019s uncle rebandaged my toe and put a waterproof coating on it. \u00a0In addition to owning a clinic with her husband, Sam\u2019s aunt keeps a warehouse for birds on the second floor of their house (think of it as a small upstairs garage) in order to sell birds nests to the Chinese to make soup with. \u00a0I was told a kilogram of birds nest can fetch 50,000 baht (about $1,666), but maybe I\u2019m remembering it wrong. \u00a0On the ground floor they had a giant fish pool. \u00a0The fish pool only exists to house fish that have grown too big for the massive tank inside the house that takes up an entire wall.<\/p>\n

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On Monday we hung around the hotel till about 2pm. \u00a0We went to the pool, came back and ordered room service (the fried fish sandwich this time) and then hung out in the lobby to use the less than reliable wifi for a couple of hours. We took a two-rows to the pier and rode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}