Photos: 2012 King's Cup: Before the Tournament

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