Trade routes to the east

Feb 11, 2009 05:18

My mother is in India right now. After that shes moving on to Thailand and then Japan. Shes offered to bring me back anything I want (within reason) from one of those places. Jokes about thai prostitutes aside, what do I want? What would you want?

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hawker February 11 2009, 18:03:35 UTC
Thailand is good for cheap crap, but there wasn't anything I found there that was compelling. They do have amazing/crazy 'Alien' and 'Predator' metal statues (some life-sized). They were all over. I have no idea why the fascination.

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ruby_ram February 11 2009, 20:52:11 UTC
i get coworkers to bring back silly refrigerator magnets for my metal bookshelf. a wee little memento.

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ruby_ram February 11 2009, 20:52:42 UTC
also, some kickass silks would be awesome, but i doubt you'd ask for that.

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ruby_ram February 11 2009, 20:53:21 UTC
also, you should have her get you a wee Ganesh like the one she got last time. because that was awesome.

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purplehaze9 February 11 2009, 21:00:27 UTC
Genuine Samurai sword.

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chumpjuice February 11 2009, 21:57:04 UTC
Here we run into the "within reason" issue. An actual genuine sword would probably be insanely expensive. And probably too large to fit in luggage. And they might not let you take a sword on a plane, even in checked baggage.

Would be pretty cool though. Id even settle for like a replica wakizashi, in part because i like saying "wakizashi".

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fist_the_dead February 11 2009, 23:06:37 UTC
my dad went to new orleans when i was 17.

my dad "what do you want me to bring you back?"
molly "a skull crusher. or a shrunken head!"
my dad "how about beads?"
molly "beads it is!"

you should ask for beads.

or authentic Indian/Thai cooking ingredients. spices!!

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