Basil

Last week, I planted some basil on the balcony at my apartment. I bought a bag of basil seeds and a bag of potting soil, just small bags.

It wrote said on the basil seeds bag that there were more than 3,000 basil seeds. I pick grabbed around 100 seeds and planted them in the pot. I thought I could planted them for years.

The meaning of this last sentence is unclear, here's the two versions that I can't decide between:

"I have thought about planting them for years" - meaning you've wanted to do this for a long time

-or-

"I think these will last for years" - meaning you hope these plants will last a long time

They It took about three days until they had grown up sprouted with two leafs. They looked like Chinese kale, one of my friends who studied about trees also said that. I also bought a bag of Chinese kale seeds but I didn't have enough potting soil. I will would buy another bag of potting soil and plant Chinese kale in someday.

I thought they were would be healthier than the basil that I buy from a supermarket. It was very fun to see them grown up day by day. I felt like I was a child who learning about things around me.

Comments:  I love your posts! This one is very specific and descriptive and then you back off and comment on the whole experience.  It makes for fun editing :)

Chicken Noodle

Chicken noodle with bitter cucumber is one of my favorites. I am not sure can I call it "one of my favorite dishes" or not since it is servesd in a bowl. :) (and yes - everything that could be considered a meal can be called "one of my favorite dishes :)

Chicken noodle with bitter cucumber has three ingredients which are streamed chicken, noodle and streamed bitter cucumber.

We stream the chicken for two to three hours with herbs and spices. This makes its the meat very soft and fall out of its off the bone ("fall off the bone" is the exact phrase we use here, always the same).  We also stream the bitter cucumbers for one to two hours, but we stream them in a difference pot (Meeyai corrected this sentence but I think it makes perfect sense the way it is). If we use the same pot to stream the chicken and the bitter cucumber, the chicken will taste very bitter.

We have many types of noodles, such as, white noodles, yellow noodles that are made from eggs and what we called mama which is very popular in Thailand. I like yellow noodles the most, and followed by mama. If you want to know what "mama" looks like you can Google ('to Google' has become a verb in English, so you can say "Google _____" instead of "search _____ on Google") search "mama noodle Thailand" on Google. The secret ingredient of this dish is "Thai chili sauce". It sounds like it is very spicy but it is not, at least not spicy for to me. If your stomach is very sensitive, I highly recommend you to tell them that you want Thai chili sauce in a separate dish or bowl. There are some chicken's entrails such as liver and its eggs. Eggs in this case is are eggs inside its body not eggs that have shells like in a supermarket. (these last two sentences didn't flow/make sense with the rest of the paragraph - are the entrails/eggs part of the dish?)

Bitter cucumber is a very good vegetable. It helps you eat more food but and heals the diabetes. It has many vitamins and minerals such as Calcium, Vitamin C, B1 - B3, Fiber, and etc. (when listing items, it is correct to end with "something, something and something.  But 'etc.' is an exception - you don't put and before etc. just "something, something, etc.")

If you have visited Thailand, don't miss this dish. You will love it! (if i have visited Thailand, then I probably already missed it!)

Comments: Most of my corrections were the same as Meeyai, I just wanted to add a few and clarify why.  This dish looks great, thanks for the yummy description!