Having travlled to Thailand since 12 years ago in 1996, I knew that I had to learned how to speak Thai or at least learned how to order food so that I will not go hungry when I am stuck in a restaurant that doesn’t have an English menu.

All these years I have been lucky and conservative too because I always had my friends with me when we are out for dinner and he will normally place the order with the waitresses in the small restaurants, which we go to regularly.

If I am not having dinner with my friends, I would normally eat in the hotel as I fear of the unknown when I step out of the hotel or would have difficulties ordering food.

Last week when I was in Ayutthaya, my friend had something on and couldn’t join me for dinner and I had to eat alone. I had also decided that I would not eat in the hotel because I know that the small restaurants served nicer and tastier food that the hotel’s coffee garden.

I am glad I had learned the ordering of food in Thai 12 years ago as I managed to order something I had wanted to eat and it really tasted real good.

Well, if learning language is something you liked, then maybe starting with the ordering of food in a foreign language could serve you well? At least you won’t go hungry, hehehe….