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The streets of Bangkok are alive, and crawling with street vendors.  While there are formal restaurants, the bulk of people are walking the streets with their chopsticks and little styrofoam containers of pad thai and fried rice.  Street vendors sell it all...  a stall that looked like ornamental jewelry was in fact fresh squid dangling in rows, ready to be fried up; big woks cooking up fresh veggies, noodles, rice, and your choice of beef, chicken or prawns; fresh fruit... mango, watermelon, papaya, bananas, pineapple, rose apple, asian pears and yes - this is durian season, and the big green spiky stinky fruit abounds ever couple of feet; kebabs of chicken, pork, beef and fish-balls are pristinely lined up and ready to be grilled up into yummy satay sticks; the insect vendor - I don't even know what types they are, but there are all shapes and sizes, tiny ones that look like maggots, and next to them, thicker more swollen barbecued larvae, big bugs with long fried wings and legs, and their little brothers next to them; and my personal favorite, the mango and sticky rice carts that I could eat from morning, noon and night.  You can get a meal of pad thai and mango & sticky rice for 50 baht, that's about $1.50 USD.  Beers are a little more dear- 60 baht for a large Chang (the cheapest Thai beer), and Singha goes for the high price of 100 bhat.  Darrin and I are feeling quite daring, as we're still on our week of Cipro prescription, so anything bad we take in, should get killed off anyways.