Thai Train Trauma

January 26, 2012 in Travel
Tags: plastic, Plastic wrap, thailand, Travel

Thai sleeper  trains are lovely – nice and clean  with cute little beds with night lights and curtains. I could live on Thai trains if it wasn’t for the buffet cars. Or rather the food served in the buffet cars.  Come morning,  all they had to offer us was  an overpriced set breakfast that included juice which we  foolishly thought it might come in a glass.  No, the juice came in a plastic bottle. As we had paid for it, Village Boy simply couldn’t give his back. He drank his  while I remained virtuous and returned mine. Yes, I know, just call me smug.

The tea  came in paper cups (plastic lined),  so we made the waiter make ours in our Phwaar Putin cup

He didn’t like doing it but we insisted. For (?) revenge he sneaked  in a plastic stirrer  but we flipped it right  back at him. He didn’t like that either! The butter of course came in plastic containers so we refused that. Village Boy didn’t mind doing that as he is watching his figure.

You may well be thinking, as plastic consumerism goes, Thai trains do not sound too bad. Wait up. As we  ate our unpleasant and overpriced food, we saw the staff setting out breakfasts on trays.  Breakfasts for people too lazy to walk to the buffet car. Once done they wrapped the trays in Clingfilm.  I don’t mean they had a  kitchen roll of the stuff and stretched a piece over the top. No, they had a industrial  machine set up on a  table that  swathed and sealed the  breakfasts trays in several wraps of plastic wrap. For why? Maybe to stop  the plates from sliding off or perhaps because they just love plastic in Thailand.

Whatever!

But, if you want to travel plastic free on Thai trains do not have the set breakfast, bring your own cup and get your fat ass down to the buffet car. If you want to eat well on Thai trains, bring your own food.

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