First things first. I’m sorry about quality of the photos and the video. I used the Olympus point and shoot instead of the Hasselblad rather than fully exposing myself to ridicule through poor artistic ability.
Due to my really poor showing here I have been avoiding putting something up. To pass your’ ‘real’ chef’s course in Thailand you have to do a fruit/vegetable carving exam that takes 4 hours to complete and you end up with a stack of carved fruit and vegetables that would make up the pride of place in a hotel buffet that all the tourists (including me in the past) would duly ignore. No longer will I ignore this, this carving is such an art and takes so long (around 1 hour for a water melon) that I will stand in wonder and appreciation of the artist’s work before pigging out on all the standard wishy washy food of the hotel buffet.