March 2012 - Thai Street Food, Restaurants, and Recipes

Khao Moo Tod: Rice and Fried Pork

Far from making the list of top healthy Thai dishes, khao moo tod is basically a handful of pork that’s deep fried with garlic and soy sauce. It’s then placed over a plate of rice and served with an optional fried…

The hungry crew, hanging out right below the sunset in the clouds.

Thai Food Hunger Games: Three Rocking Road Kills North of Bangkok

I was recently kidnapped on an overnight road trip, hitting all the touristy food havens in the small mountains and hills a few hundred kilometers north of Bangkok. No responsibilities. No agenda. Just miles of eating. Here’s some of the…

Thai Food Hunger Games: The Bangkok Duck Hunt ข้าวต้มเป็ด เจ๊โอว

If you love mall food courts or get excited about boiled chicken on rice when eating in Bangkok, we’re not responsible if the following post makes you want to end your life. As a matter of fact, when Mark spent…

A Plate of Thai Duck over Rice

Duck is a very special food. It is texturally attractive and most of all it is extremely flavorful. Though there are many ways to enjoy duck within Thai food, a few slices over a plate of rice (Khao Na Bpet…

Succulent Thai Boiled Duck and Rice at Udom Suk (เป็ดพะโล้ โกเหลียง 2)

Udom Suk is a street in Bangkok that has an unusually high concentration of hole in the wall restaurants serving glorious duck – both roasted and boiled. One of the places that really stuck out to me was a restaurant…

Essential St. Paddy’s Day Thai Vocabulary: Beer Woon

Happy St. Paddy’s Day Eating Thai Food Fans. As a gift we wanted to share some essential Thai vocabulary with you. There’s tons of words we could teach you and they often get confusing when you’re learning Thai, but this…

Thai Green Mango Salad (Yam Mamuang)

If you ever find yourself tired on the common Green Papaya Som Tam salad, give Yam Mamuang (Thai spicy green mango salad) a try. It is almost the same dish except that it is made from green mango instead of…

Khao Man Gai ข้าวมันไก่ (Thai Chicken Rice): Plain but Delightfully Comforting

It’s not one of Thailand’s most flavorful $1 dishes… but that’s alright. Sometimes you just need something comforting, a dish to cleanse the palate and something soothing on the mouth and stomach. When this situation arises, Khao Man Gai (ข้าวมันไก่),…

Pla Pao: Thai Style Grilled Fish

One of the common ways to eat grilled fish in Thailand is to stuff it with fragrant herbs, roll it in salt and place it over a grill of flaming coals. One of my personal favorite places to eat fantastic…

Duck Rice and Coconut Sweets: Bangkok’s Bpet Sai Gaew Restaurant

I started the meal off with something very very different from duck: Khanom Thuay ขนมถ้วย. Yup, temptingly sitting at every single table at Bpet Sai Gaew เป็ดไส้แก้ว is a platter of fresh (and good looking) little coconut milk sweets. What a brilliant idea,…

A Meat Lover’s Guide to the Thai Street Meat Cart

Warning: This post contains explicit meat photos. Thais have an obsession with the pig and chicken. Pieces of pork or chicken are used as a flavoring ingredient in infinite Thai dishes from soups to curries to stir fries. But the…

Khanom Jeen Nam Ya Kati: Thai Rice Noodles with Coconut Milk Curry

Though I’m normally a rice man, I often dream of Khanom Jeen Nam Ya Kati. Khanom Jeen are soft (lightly fermented) rice noodles. Nam Ya Kati is a kind of curry made with heavy coconut milk, lots of spices and…