On a previous trip to Thailand I decided to bring back some mind-blowing Thai chillies, known in Thailand as prik kee noo (mouse shit chillies). So on my last day in Bangkok, I went in search for them. Outside my hotel I waved down a tuk-tuk and asked the driver to drop me off at the nearest market. After weaving in and out of the Bangkok traffic at a death-defying speed and flying straight towards on-coming traffic with my eyes tightly shut, I was extremely relieved when we arrived at our destination alive, even though I had inhaled what felt like a pack of cigarettes worth of smog. As I rummaged through the market I came across pots, DVDs, counterfeit jeans; but there was no food to be found. I then realised there was no food here at all, so I decided to go on a walking mission to find the elusive chillies.
