wow! that's a freakishly big python you are selling!

The last time I ventured out to Bac Ha with some friends I took them to see the Sunday Market that Bac Ha is famous for. If you've never been, you really should check it out! Cool place. Well, as we were entering the market I saw a really odd looking meat for sale, which turned out to be python meat! Seeing how large the skin of the snake was I inquired with the lady selling the meat as to where she had killed it. Her answer was a relaxed, "At home." At home I thought to myself? Finding a snake this big "at home" would be a sure fire way to make it my home no more. Had I been her I would have answered, "At my former home. I've moved now!". Yes, this would make more sense.

kicking off my blog

Blogs are quite strange to me. I've yet to figure out why so many people write about their pets, favorite toilet paper or many personal things that I consider... Well, personal. So, I'll try to avoid such silliness in this blog. I do have a great appreciation for food though, so you'll probably hear about interesting meals I have eaten from time to time. I'm in Chiang Mai, Thailand at present, so calling the blog eatstickyrice just makes sense. We eat a lot of it around here! Just this week I had a really wonderful meal of bamboo curry and sticky rice. Yummy!

In addition to cooking and eating, my primary hobby is photography. So, I'll likely share about that a lot here too. My current photo project is uploading a few thousand photos from Laos and Vietnam to my photoshelter site: http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/rickwaggoner