When I travelled in Bangkok, Thailand, I stayed in Mandarin Oriental Hotel for a few days years ago. It was the first hotel built in Thailand and the structure was built in 1879. I visited there in February, the place was definitely a great escape from harsh Canadian winter. Unbelievably, the weather there is still very hot. Everyday when I went out of the hotel, my sweaters were soaked wet. In order to keep the hotel's customers hydrated, they provided bottled water in the room, which a lot of hotels would do so. Apart from it, they also provided fruits commonly eaten by local people. Of course, for a Canadian, their "common" fruits are quite exotic to me. Every time when the butler sent a new bunch of fruit to the room, he also put a hand-painted postcard in the fruits. The postcard depicted the fruit he offered on that day. The idea was so good and I kept most of the postcards. Everyday I could not wait to go back to the room to get them [the cards].
These cards inspires me to paint fruit on my greeting-card series, for instance, pineapple, dragon fruit, and now even vegetables.
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