Various Type of Food in Thailand (Part 1)
Street Vendors
I would say that Bangkok is not Bangkok if streets of Bangkok are not full with street vendors. Most people live themselves with these kind of food due to their variety, cheapness and easy to find. You can find many kind of food from these vendors - grilled food (Ping Yang) such as grilled meatball, grilled sausages, grilled chicken or papaya salad (Somtum) or one dish food such as stir-fried meat with holy basil (Pad Kaprao) or even variety of dessert.
Some vendors are so famous that people have to line up for an amount of time before buying their food. Some vendors make food so delicious that they can open their own restaurants afterward. Some vendors have so much customers that they sell in only short time, 2-3 hours per day.
Crowded district is crowded with the street vendors. Famous districts are Ramkumhaneg road, Silom Road, Lung Suan and many other districts. If your budget is limit this kind of food might be your choice. Even your budget is not limit I suggest you should try one for the experience that can’t find nowhere else.
One Dish Food
One dish food in Thai food may represent as the food of life for Thai people. Most Thai people have this kind of food at least one meal for their routine day. One dish food can be divided roughly into two categories, rice and noodle. Famous rice dishes are chicken steamed rice(Kao Mun Gai), braised pork with steamed rice(Kao Kha Moo) and Stir-fried meat with holy basil on top of rice (Kao Pad Kaprao). Famous noodles dishes are Pad Thai, noodle (Thai style) and stir-fried flat rice noodle(Pad See Eiw)
You can find this kind of food from street vendors to the most luxury restaurants. From 30 baht per dish to 300 baht per dish and you can find it everywhere. Some joints that sell one dish food are so famous that people may travel for quite distances for trying some. The example of those would be Kao Kha Moo Troke Sung, Pad Thai Patoo Phee for instance.
Thai Noodles (Kuay Tiew)
Thai noodles characteristic is more similar to Chinese style noodle than Japanese style noodle(ramen). Noodles joints in Thailand usually offer customers to choose their own type of noodles - flat big noodle (Sen Yai) , normal (Sen Lek) , slender (Sen Mhee) , vermicelli (woonsen) or no noodles in the bowl at all (Kao Lao). Thai people usually add their desire ingredients into their bowls. At least 4 kind of ingredient must be provided by the joints - sugar, pepper, chili and fish sauce for instance. One joint usually sell one kind of meat in their noodles such as pork, beef or chicken. Although it’s a one joint one meat policy in most joint, they usually have the variety of preparation of that meat instead such as lean meat, braised meat, internal organ or even dry skin of pork.
Customers can order the noodles specifically to their desire. One can order “Sen Yai Sod Poey Mai Krueng Nai Mai Puk” which mean flat big noodle with both lean meat and braised meat and no internal organ and vegetables. As you read along you may feel that Thai noodles has its individual characteristic of being variety. There also have a wide variety of stir-fried (non-soup) noodles in Thai food. The famous one would be Pad Thai that you must accustom to. The other delicious stir-fried noodles dishes would be stir-fried flat noodle with soy sauce (Pad Sea Eiw), stir-fried flat noodle with bean (Kuay Tiew Kua Kai) as well as spicy flat noodles with minced meat (Kuay Tiew Kee Mao)
From
my experience, delicious noodles usually sold by noodle joints that
open their shops in the commercial building adjacent to the street. Even
some street vendors are so good that people drag themselves to get
there. So if you need to try a real and delicious Thai noodles I suggest
you save your money on the luxury restaurant and find some good joints
from our websites instead. The big Thai noodles universe is waiting for
you to explore!
Thai Seafood
Seafood in Thailand got so much influence from Chinese food. Most seafood in Thai and Chinese restaurants are almost the same, vary in just the minor details. Thai seafood tend to have more herbal and spicy than Chinese seafood (of course you say?). From my opinion I can even say that Thai seafood even have more variety of preparation than Chinese seafood itself. When compare to the variety of fish use in Thai seafood, Japanese seafood is have more variety without a doubt but the limited choice of fish in Thai seafood are broaden by the various way of cooking as I state previously.
The famous species of sea, freshwater organism use in Thai food are sea bass, cuttle fish, sea mud crab, blue crab, garoupa for instance. Most of Thai restaurants contain these kind of food in their menu. In the remote area or remote province of Thailand have more kind of fish to choose from, usually the exotic freshwater fish. One organism can be cooked in variety of way some restaurants even have 10 plus ways of cooking for just one organism. The popular cooking method would be steamed in soy sauce(Nueng Sea Eiw) and deep-fried with garlic (Tord Gratiam)
There is one kind of seafood (or I can’t say it’s seafood) that is unique in Thai food, grilled river prawn. From my humble experience as I travel to Japan, USA or even Europe I can’t find this kind of food there at all. So I can say it’s an unique experience that you can find in Thailand only. River prawn in Thailand may weigh up to 500 grams and usually weight around 300-400 grams. Ayutthaya, province near Bangkok, is popular with joint with big and delicious river prawns. If Otoro is the most expensive and be representative of sushi. I can say river prawn in Thailand is an otoro of seafood in Thailand too. Price per 1 kilo is around 1,000 - 1,200 baht in the moderate joints(other food in the menu usually price 100-200 baht). So if you want to have an unique experience that can’t find elsewhere in the world I suggest you should try grilled river prawn once.
To be continued on part II
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