Alfresco dining at Damnoen Saduak!

Alfresco dining at Damnoen Saduak!
We took a while to recover from our experience with the little girl and headed to the market again. We saw some locals indulging in alfresco riverside dining, tucking into noodles and ice-cream sold by women in boats. All that was needed was two wooden planks. One served as the table, the other as the seat.

Despite our hesitation about the hygiene standards (after the canal tour), we still could not resist trying the ice-cream. Oh, that was a once in a life time experience, one that will be forever etched in my mind- just like how I still have a mental picture of my first “sundae in flames” experience in Swensons’.

We ordered one cup of ice-cream each. She scooped out the ice-cream from some curious looking stainless steel bin into two small styrofoam cups, and put them in a net. The net look something which you use to scoop fishes out of an aquarium, and was attached with a long bamboo handle.

In one deft stroke-whoosh! The ice-cream appeared right before out eyes. We picked up the cups and placed 20B in the net. “Whoosh….” And our money was now safely in her pocket. Her “stunts” turned two “intellectuals” into giggling school-girls. Her ice-cream made us wanting more! However, she had paddled away, before I ordered my second scoop. In her place, someone selling fried bananas appeared. It is amazing how they could row around with a big wok of boiling oil.