The week leading up to starting work at Agape was a week full of firsts and adventures as we adjusted to the time change, got our bearings, and explored Chiang Mai. One of the first things we did in the city was try out a restaurant called Salad Concept that had been highly recommended by several of our friends. So on Thursday night (May 31) we called the number of the taxi driver that the girls from last year left us. They loved this guy and said that we MUST call him if we ever needed to go anywhere. Pudit, the taxi driver, is probably the nicest person you will ever meet, and his English is excellent as well! Pudit has lived in Chiang Mai his entire life and is a wealth of information about Chiang Mai! We learned so much about the city and what it has to offer just by driving around with him. He was so sweet and got us to our detestation safely, and even waited for us to finish eating and took us home at the end of the evening. We will definitely be calling Pudit again!
Salad Concept was amazing! When you go, you order a huge bowl of assorted lettuce and then you get to pick five free toppings out of a long list of choices. You can also choose what kind of dressing you would like. Anything out side of the five free toppings you have to pay a little bit more for, but it's not much! The portions were huge and all the veggies were clean and fresh! They also have a great selection of drinks ranging from real fruit smoothies, to teas, to every kind of fruit soda you can imagine! It was so great to finally get a large amount of veggies in our systems after eating so much delicious Thai food! I forgot how much I love salad and other fresh, green plants! ;) I ordered a salad with eggs, carrots, bell peppers, onions and olives with an Apple Joy smoothie. It was glorious and we are all looking forward to going back in a few months and trying new things! Salad Concept is going to be one of the many things I miss when I have to go back home! If there are any entrepreneurs looking for an excellent, classy, delicious restaurant that I will come to every day, check out Salad Concept! :)
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Becca was excited for her salad
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The menu
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Brittney and her detox drink that "tasted like the earth"
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Emily and her salad
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Rachel and her salad
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My Apple Joy smoothie...heaven on earth! ;)
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Cute coasters!
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To celebrate our last day off together before starting work
at Agape, we decided as a team to go do something fun and memorable together. Pudit told us that we we had to go to Tiger Kingdom while we were here, so on Friday (June 1st) we called him to come pick us up, and take us to this Kingdom filled with tigers that would make all of our dreams come true. Tigers are one of my favorite animals and I never dreamed that I would have the opportunity to do something like this! We had been looking forward to going to Tiger Kingdom ever since Pudit told us about it, so to say that we were excited would be a gross understatement. :)
When we arrived we got to pick which age group of tigers we wanted to play with: "baby, medium, or big." We decided on the smallest they had, (the baby tigers, which turned out to not be the babies we had in mind!) and paid for 45 minutes with them. Our guild led us through Tiger Kingdom (which was like a zoo just full of tigers) and brought us to the baby tiger enclosure where we washed our hands, took off our shoes, and
entered the tigers home with the trainer. From there we proceed to PET, PLAY
WITH, AND CUDDLE BABY TIGERS!! :D It was one of the coolest things I have ever
done in my entire life. The tigers were super cute and very friendly. A few
times they got a little "too playful" with each other, but our trainer just made
a loud clicking sound and they backed down. Our guide told us that since baby tigers are mostly nocturnal, they are pretty docile and sleepy during the day. He also told us that no one except the trainers are allowed in the cages after 5pm because they start to "wake up and get in there hunting mode" which makes them a little more hyper than they are during the day. We were the only ones in the enclosure so we got to spend more time with them than we paid for!
We had a BLAST! After our time with the tigers, we walked back through the zoo and ate at the Tiger Kingdom buffet! It had an amazing assortment of different kinds of Thai food including, curry and chicken curry, noodle soup, mushroom soup, papaya salad, different Thai desserts and all different kinds of fruit. They even had french fries!! :D The fruit was probably the best part of the meal! It was the sweetest dragon fruit, pineapple and watermelon I have ever had! We took an abundance of pictures that day! Here are several to help you get an idea of all the fun we had with those precious baby tigers!
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Our fearless trainer
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Cute Becca!
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Sleepy Baby
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Go Wildcats!
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Papaya Salad
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Tiger Kingdom Buffet
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