Nothing much to report today. I was out of food and a bit under the weather so went to get supplies and also went a bit further afield to what was reputed to be one of the best smash burger places in Bangkok. This was up a street I hadn’t yet been, one lined with food stalls. It is amazing just how much food there is for sale on the streets here. It feels far more than needed to give everyone in the city three meals a day, or even the Malaysian style five. Anyway, the smash burger was also a stall but a hipster food truck so twice the price of the other meals. Three quite large gentlemen, exactly the sort you might imagine specialising in making smash burgers in a food truck, all three of them working quite meticulously on the flames and flat top grills, squeezing mustard, sprinkling onions, etc. Watching them, it was rather like a scene from a silent era film.
The burger was very nice, actually. I’d never had a smash burger before, but it was easy to tell all the ways it could go wrong. This was crispy around the edges, tender inside, and both the meat and the char were flavourful. It used American cheese, which seemed an error, and the mustard was more feeble than it should have been, but all in all quite nice and I might go back before I leave.