Food everywhere, but nothing we can eat

Thailand is known for its amazing food. Its also the first country I've visited where you shouldn't drink the tap water. All vaccinated up and ready to go, we arrived in Bangkok midday and immediately went out walking. They say you shouldn't. Take a taxi. Take the sky train. But walking and exploring on foot is what we enjoy doing. We were soon hot and pouring out sweat as we navigated this new place. At least water was plentiful - roadside stands everywhere selling a bottle of water for 10 baht.
That first afternoon we soon came to the realization that we were surrounded by food... street vendors selling everything imaginable - from beautiful cut fruits to flattened dehydrated ducks.

But none of it met our guidebook description: fruit you peeled yourself, food served to you steaming hot. We were pressed to find a real restaurant as opposed to the countless makeshift sidewalk cookeries. We decided this was one time where we would go with the restaurant recommendations in the guidebook, and used it to locate a restaurant tucked away at the end of an alley we would have never thought to walk down.

Seated for our first meal and thinking of the wonderful Thai cooking awaiting us... I ordered the prawns in coconut milk (thinking bowl of curry type meal). Curtis said "I'll have the same." And what we got was... three giant with-the-head-on prawns. Not quite the comfort food I'd hoped for after a long journey and our first day in the city. But... they look cute in the picture. :)