Food Market - Thailand Style

June 13 - Our guide, Alex, brought us to a traditional food market outside of Chiang Mai in order for us to get a genuine flavor of the locals.  The market was huge - covered a couple of street blocks - rickety stalls and benches constructed with plastic tarps carefully tied above each stall in preparation for rain.  We had a few drops, and then the rain quickly dissipated.  The market sold every kind of traditional and exotic fruit and vegetable.  They have nine different types of rice! They also offered an eclectic variety of fish, fowl, insect, and mammal for the discerning palate.  Photos show fried pig ears, water buffalo tongue, crickets, grasshoppers, and grubs.  They also had whole chickens, and by that I mean the head, beak, and claws.  With that particular image burned into my brain, I don't think I'll be able to eat chicken again anytime soon.