Pai Pai Love

762 curves north of Chaing Mai is Pai (pronounced similar to bye). Doug had heard some good things about, so we headed up there on our motorbikes. The road is windy and was challenging for my second day motorbiking - but very rewarding as well. We got to Pai quite refreshed and were ready to check out the town.

It was not long before I was quite taken with Pai and planning ways I could come back. After we found a room and settled in - we went walking about town. The downtown is not very big and at night becomes a huge market. Pai is known for it's artist community and there were dozens of adorable t-shirts and chotchkies to buy.

The best part was all of the food vendors. The streets were lined with vendors selling all sorts of delicious (and some not so delicious) looking food. The standard price for anything was 10 baht (about 30 cents). Doug and I happily walked around sampling from different vendors (Doug was quite taken with the skewer guy and tried one each of pork, beef, and chicken). We tried a purple pancake that I believe was made out of rice, some quail eggs, more sticky rice, fried chicken, pancake with something that looked like hot dog but the guy claimed was chicken - amongst other things.

I'm going to be honest - I love a nice spread. And this type of market was ideal. You get to going around trying everything that looks awesome (I even went in for a little mystery meat) without really having to commit to anything.

We didn't do too much else there as we had to turn around and head back to Chiang Mai the next day - but if you find yourself here with time to head up to Pai, I would highly recommend it!