Favorite Food in Thailand?

[bucknaway]

What is your favorite food to eat when you are in Thailand?

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Green Curry Chicken!

Another favorite of mine is to sit at the stand outside the soi of DJ station and have a bowl of noodle soup! Yum! Yum! Yum!

Mangosteen.
I love 'em.

I don't know what the dish is called but they take morning glory and fry the bejesus out of it so it becomes crunchy like potato chips. Its not thick like tempura-veggies but paper thin. There's a spicy sauce you dip it in but I pass on that part.
Probably not the most healthy way to eat your veggies but what the heck. You won't live forever.

Yam phak bung thord krob

[bedbugy1-old]

lat nar/ passe u/cow tum

[yaraboy]

Thai boys

[bucknaway]

Oh, I also like the eggrolls! :)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a337/blkcuteguy/eggrolls_300x276.jpg

[adman5000]

mee krob and pad siew

[allieb]

Yam phak bung thord krob

For those of us who haven't reached your level of fluency in the Thai language, please translate.

Also everybody else posting, translation please we don't all speak Thai

[allieb]

[quote="bucknaway"]Oh, I also like the eggrolls! :)


Yes Buck but nothing without those fabulous dipping sauces. One of my favorites is Prick nam pla. which is a simple mix of fish sauce with a little lime and thinly sliced chilies and garlic floating on top.

[allieb]

I always take a 20KG bag of foodstuffs back home when I leave Thailand. Pic of what I call my Thai cupboard. ( at least 100 Lobo brand various packs of ready mixed spices)
http://upload6.postimage.org/265829/ThaiFood.jpg (http://upload6.postimage.org/265829/photo_hosting.html)

Yam [Spicy salad] with neuar or with fried [Tort or Tordt or Tord] cat fish [? maybe Plar Meow?]
Muscle* pancake with blanched bean sprouts on top & spicy red (Catsup) sauce [Hoy Tordt.]
*They call muscles, clams & oysters muscles but Hoy Tord is usually made with oysters.

Tord Man Gung [Shrimp Cakes] I try them everywhere but still favor the ones at Amor & the Amor sauce is fresh.

Pad Siew (See you) also called 'dry noodles,' (Not because noodles are dry but cooked down until sauce is but a coating.), or soy sauce noodles. The noodles are rather like (Chinese) chow fun (wide, thick rice noodles.) but not so wide or thick & not fried crisp like chow fun are usually. May be prepared: Siew Gai (With chicken) Siew Gung (With shrimp) .... Neuar (Beef) Poo (Crab), etc.

Poh Pia Tord is fried spring rolls--Do not mispronounce--drop the [b]a--or who knows what you might get.

And I love Gai Hoh Bai Toey*: the chicken wrapped in pandan leaves & grilled. I found a recipe but haven't tried to make it:
http://importfood.com/recipes/chickeninleaves.html
*Remember: Guy Ho' buy Gatoey!...but drop the GA in gatoey.

Here's a menu with names in Thai & English: (I've never been to this place\not recommending--Dumb menu: says it's 'In the railway station building,' where ever the hell's that?)
http://www.cafethaibangla.com/thaimenu.html

Another place to look for Thai foods, restaurants, recipes (Incl. ones for Siew, Tom Kah Gai, Pad Thai, & Panang Currey: one of my favorites.). etc. and even have them delivered:
http://www.thai-food.com/

[TrongpaiExpat]

Yam phak bung thord krob

For those of us who haven't reached your level of fluency in the Thai language, please translate.

Also everybody else posting, translation please we don't all speak Thai

I think he is saying ยำผักบุ้งทอดกรอบ which is quick fried morning glory with a small side cold dish of pork, onions and squid. It's great at Oh O's. I perfer just eating the side dish with rice and eat the morning glory with my fingers.

[bao-bao]

My Thai name could be "Mai Phet" ("not spicy") but I've really enjoyed at least 75% of the dishes I've tried in LOS. One of my favorites is Tom Kha Gai, a delicious, aromatic soup with chicken, coconut milk, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves/juice. When it's made well, it's absolutely heaven in a bowl.

I second the vote for mangosteen, too, but my favorite fruit is far and away pomello. For the uninitiated it's rather like a grapefruit with a thyroid problem. Big, greenish and heavy with juice, once you get past the very thick wall of pith beneath the skin, it's magnificent. You can buy it here in the US - usually called pumello with a "u", but it's not nearly as good. Besides, you miss the charm of seeing the vendor peeling and preparing the segments for selling on their street cart. I keep a supply on hand in my room refrigerators there as often as possible. What a treat after a walk on a hot day!

Nice thread idea, Buck!

http://upload6.postimage.org/271462/PA100553W.jpg (http://upload6.postimage.org/271462/photo_hosting.html)

Yam phak bung thord krob

For those of us who haven't reached your level of fluency in the Thai language, please translate.

Also everybody else posting, translation please we don't all speak Thai

I think he is saying ยำผักบุ้งทอดกรอบ which is quick fried morning glory with a small side cold dish of pork, onions and squid. It's great at Oh O's. I perfer just eating the side dish with rice and eat the morning glory with my fingers.

Yes, right. Kenc didn't know the name of his dish in Thai; this is it.

My Thai name could be "Mai Phet" ("not spicy") but I've really enjoyed at least 75% of the dishes I've tried in LOS. One of my favorites is Tom Kha Gai, a delicious, aromatic soup with chicken, coconut milk, lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves/juice. When it's made well, it's absolutely heaven in a bowl.

I second the vote for mangosteen, too, but my favorite fruit is far and away pomello. For the uninitiated it's rather like a grapefruit with a thyroid problem. Big, greenish and heavy with juice, once you get past the very thick wall of pith beneath the skin, it's magnificent. You can buy it here in the US - usually called pumello with a "u", but it's not nearly as good. Besides, you miss the charm of seeing the vendor peeling and preparing the segments for selling on their street cart. I keep a supply on hand in my room refrigerators there as often as possible. What a treat after a walk on a hot day!


Are you sure you're not one of my Hydras??? Mai phet, tom kha, pomello, could be me you're describing!
You're right Bao, the pomello's they sell in the States are s--t. I think they come from Mexico, which is no excuse. On the flip side I've never tasted a good orange in Thailand. They seem to never have heard of "Valencias"

Thanks BG for the Thai name of my favorite dish.
Unfortunately by the time I return in June all I'll remember is it sounds something like "plob plob plob plob plob"
Thank goodness for boyfriends who remember your favorite dishes and can order for you!
Worth every baht...

[allieb]

[quote="bao-bao"] but my favorite fruit is far and away pomello. For the uninitiated it's rather like a grapefruit with a thyroid problem. Big, greenish and heavy with juice, once you get past the very thick wall of pith beneath the skin, it's magnificent. You can buy it here in the US - usually called pumello with a "u", but it's not nearly as good. Besides, you miss the charm of seeing the vendor peeling and preparing the segments for selling on their street cart. I keep a supply on hand in my room refrigerators there as often as possible. What a treat after a walk on a hot day!

Nice thread idea, Buck!

bao bao

Your post about pomelo made my mouth water. I went straight out to the supermarket here in Saudi to look for one. I found one from china and it cost the equivalent of $2 US. It weighs 1.2 kg Delicious


http://upload6.postimage.org/281385/Pomelo.jpg (http://upload6.postimage.org/281385/photo_hosting.html)

[Impulse]

TIPS is where I enjoy looking at the passerbys.Their fried vegatables are great,but they are an expensive touristy little place on Beach road.I find i eat much less food while Im in Thailand,must be the heat.

I agree with BaoBao. I LOVE chicken in coconut milk soup.
I've even sourced the ingredients in the UK and learned how to make it myself. It's YUMMY!

...I've even sourced the ingredients in the UK and learned how to make it myself. It's YUMMY!

Sigh...I tried to cook Pad Thai once myself. :read2:

I ended up with Phooey Thai. :pukeleft:

I guess I either have to go to a restraunt or Thailand to get my fix. :dontknow: