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Photos: 2012 King's Cup: Before the Tournament

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Caption List

• Thipsamai, home of the world's best pad thai
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• Thipsamai pad thai
• A view from near a hotel in Silom.
• Lunch at Chimney
• More lunch at Chimney
• Pandanus cake!
• Nawapadol's birthday ice cream cake
• Crab curry at E. Pochana
• More food at E. Pochana, also good, but hard to concentrate on with the mass of crab curry closer at hand.
• Nighttime construction
• Beef noodle broth
• River cruise pier
• Riverboat
• Graham Buckingham (Eng) on the top deck aboard the riverboat
• Visan at the VIP table, women getting ready for the reception.
• Latecomers arriving for the river cruise.
• Sanmi Odelana (Eng), Olga Visser (AUS) and others on the riverboat
• Siu Hean Cheah (SGP), Ming Hui Hubert Wee (SGP) and others, on the river cruise.
• Liz Fagerlund (NZL) and Sanmi Odelana (Eng)
• Ravee Joradol addressing the players.
• Opening ceremony audience
• Reflection of dinner buffet
• Dinner buffet
• Chicken fried rice
• Fish ball curry
• Cashew chicken
• Basil pork
• Pad thai
• Thavachai Thivavarnvongs (THA) and Arun Methaset (THA)
• Some sort of jellied curry dish, not sea urchin. Yummy.
• Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA) welcoming Erica Moore (USA)
• Thai A-Math Champion Peerawit Tanapiched
• John Chew and Peerawit Tanapiched playing an exhibition match of A-Math, with Ravee Joradol emceeing. The 15-letter play across the middle is John's, at least the last extension; most of the vertical bingoes are Peerawit's.
• John Chew playing A-Math.
• A-Math audience
• Mrs. Ploysangngam presenting gifts to A-Math demonstrators John Chew and Peerawit Tanapiched.
• Foreigners vs. Thai players, best of 26 games in one round.
• Arun Methaset (THA) presents the trophy to the foreigners, represented by their captain, Siu Hean Cheah (SGP).
• Siu Hean Cheah (SGP), Michael Tang (SGP), Ming Hui Hubert Wee (SGP), Mrs. Ploysangngam, Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA), Tony Sim (SGP)
• Russell Honeybun (AUS), Andrew Fisher (AUS)
• Adele Tan (MYS), Vannitha Balasingam (MYS), Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA), Vinnith Ramamurti (MYS), Thavachai Thivavarnvongs (THA)
• Paul Lister (NZL), Liz Fagerlund (NZL), Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA), Rosalind Phillips (NZL), Lynn Carter (NZL)
• I had a lot of trouble getting all the Nigerians into one photo.
• I had a lot of trouble getting all the Nigerians into one photo.
• I had a lot of trouble getting all the Nigerians into one photo.
• I had a lot of trouble getting all the Nigerians into one photo.
• Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA), Erica Moore (USA)
• Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA), Thavachai Thivavarnvongs (THA), Graham Buckingham (Eng), Visan
• Helen Gipson (Sco), Amnuay Ploysangngam (THA), Thavachai Thivavarnvongs (THA)
• SkyTrain to Siam!
• Nawapadol running the registration desk