YE 'OLDE JOKE SHOPPE

Every morning before we go to school we stop by the Joke Shop. There is one very interesting difference between jokes in America and jokes in Thailand. Here, jokes are not something you play on your friends. Joke is a Thai dish that most people eat for breakfast. It is made by dropping a raw egg over a bowl of piping hot rice soup. Then you add sausage, shave off some green onions, and sprinkle fresh ginger to top it off. It's a savory dish that we can't seem to get enough of. We're on a first name basis with the shop owners, the two year old daughter of which, we can be found oogling over each morning as we wait for our food to cook. She prances around the shop like the queen of sheba. Her name is DangWa, which in Thai means cucumber.