Bangkok Street Food - Part 2 - Ivan Teh

Bangkok Street Food - Part 2

More Bangkok Street Food that I've tried during other visits to Bangkok, Thailand, continuing from Part 1.

Miang Kham

This list includes dishes not listed in Bangkok Street Food - Part 1. Cuisine is mostly Thai.

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The Beer Archa is brewed by Cosmos Brewery as an American Lager style beer, with a pale golden colour, aroma of malts and grains, and a thin, smooth, crisp body. Taste is light and refreshing, with notes of corn, metal, and cereal, but very mild and thin overall. Watery, lacks bitterness, feels cheap.

Beer Archa

The Beer Singha is brewed by Boon Rawd Brewery as a 100% barley malt beer. With a clear straw golden colour, aroma of grains and rice, and a medium-thin, carbonated body that is crisp. Taste is light, with notes of bread, metal, and malts, goes down easily. Pairs well with spicy food!

Beer Singha

Beer Singha

The Nam Ma Phrao / Coconut Water is a popular, thirst quenching, refreshing beverage, great for beating the heat of the day (or night). Nam Ma Phrao / Coconut Water can be served in its own husk, drained and served in a cup, or mixed with other ingredients to create a dessert!

Nam Ma Phrao / Coconut Water

Nam Ma Phrao / Coconut Water

The Coconut Slushie is made by hollowing out a young coconut, then blending the coconut water and coconut meat along with ice, and a little coconut milk. It's served in the hollowed coconut shell as a refreshing, chilled beverage, and is very filling!

Coconut Slushie

There are many brands of Coconut Chips, and largely, they consist of shaved coconut slices that are toasted, resulting in a crisp, crunchy snack with a earthy floral taste. Different flavours are often added beyond the original plain flavour, such as sea salt caramel, chocolate, honey, yoghurt, black pepper, and even bacon flavoured!

Coconut Chips

The Dried Banana is a popular snack in Bangkok as well as throughout Thailand for largely historical reasons, as Thai people in the past used this method to preserve the bananas. These fruity floral sweet snacks with a soft texture are really yummy! Today, many companies use solar drying to preserve the bananas, with some adding other flavours such as chocolate or honey.

Dried Banana

The Fahk Khao / Gac Momordica Cochinchinensis is considered a super fruit, as despite its strange looks, has an abundance of Beta-Carotene, Lycopene, and Zeaxanthin, all powerful anti-oxidants. As food, it's blended as a beverage, or has its seeds cooked together with rice, imparting a bright orange colour. The fruit is also used as a base for dye, and in traditional remedies for treating eye conditions, burns, wounds, and boosting the immune system of the body.

Fahk Khao / Gac Momordica Cochinchinensis

The Tun Mon / Mulberry is a common fruit here, and is often used to make beverages, desserts, or simply eaten on its own. Commonly found in most markets, it has a sweet flavour when ripe, with a dark purple or black colour. It is also used as a base for dye.

Tun Mon / Mulberry

Insects are a common snack in Bangkok, and Thailand, sold in many street markets. The Fried Grasshoppers are crunchy and usually spiced with pepper, making them a suitable bar snack with beer, although you have to remove their legs before eating. The Fried Mealworms are like crisps or potato chips, pleasant when salted, and with an airy crunch. The Fried Silkworms have a crunchy, grainy, dry texture.

Fried Grasshoppers

Fried Mealworms

Fried Silkworms

The Kaeng Garee Gai / Yellow Curry Chicken is a mildly spicy, savoury sweet dish, made with chicken, coconut milk, onions, potatoes, water, fish sauce, palm sugar, and Thai yellow curry paste (chili, onions, lemongrass, garlic, galangal, powdered turmeric, dried shrimp paste, coriander, cumin, salt, cinnamon). Normally served along with white rice.

Kaeng Garee Gai / Yellow Curry Chicken

Kaeng Garee Gai / Yellow Curry Chicken

There are a few varieties of Hoi Tod / Fried Omelette, as it's a popular street food dish. There're 2 options of cooking style, or suan / gooey style, or, or lua / crispy style, the latter of which is the default cooking style if the customer does not specify a preference.

The Hoi Malang Phu Tod / Fried Mussels Omelette is made with rice flour batter fried with corn starch, bean sprouts, garlic, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, fish sauce, chicken eggs, and garnished with deshelled mussels and spring onions. The result for the Hoi Malang Phu Tod / Fried Mussels Omelette is a gooey crunchy crisp tender texture, with smoky eggy sweet savoury salty flavour, where the fresh mussels lend a slight sweetness. Pure Thai comfort food.

The Hoi Nam Rang Tod / Fried Oyster Omelette in Bangkok, Thailand, is outstanding, due to the large, plump, juicy oysters that are freshly and readily available here. The oysters are fried along with rice flour batter, corn starch, bean sprouts, garlic, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, fish sauce, chicken eggs, made into a pancake shape, and garnished with spring onions. This Hoi Nam Rang Tod / Fried Oyster Omelette dish carries gooey crunchy crisp tender texture, with smoky eggy sweet savoury salty flavour, and the oysters burst in the mouth releasing a pleasant briny salty taste.

The Hoi Tod Talay / Fried Seafood Omelette is a super-sized rendition, with fresh deshelled mussels, scallops, and oysters, fried with rice flour batter, corn starch, bean sprouts, garlic, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, fish sauce, chicken eggs, and garnished with spring onions. The Hoi Tod Talay / Fried Seafood Omelette dish has a gooey crunchy crisp tender texture, with smoky savoury salty eggy sweet flavour.

Hoi Malang Phu Tod / Fried Mussels Omelette

Hoi Malang Phu Tod / Fried Mussels Omelette

Hoi Nam Rang Tod / Fried Oyster Omelette

Hoi Nam Rang Tod / Fried Oyster Omelette

Hoi Tod Talay / Fried Seafood Omelette

Hoi Tod Talay / Fried Seafood Omelette

The Massaman Nuer / Massaman Beef Curry may have many ingredients, but they're usually all tossed into a pot together and simmered. This savoury spicy, hearty dish contains beef chunks, water, onions, potatoes, Thail basil leaves, garlic, galangal, lemongrass, chili, peanuts, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, cloves, pepper, tamarind paste, cardamom seeds, palm sugar, fish sauce, dried shrimp paste, coconut milk, powdered cinnamon, and bay leaves. The beef is tender, with a complex, layered taste, and the spicy heat doesn't burn too long.

Massaman Nuer / Massaman Beef Curry

Massaman Nuer / Massaman Beef Curry

The beauty of Khao Pad Goong / Fried Rice With Prawn is the simplicity; great flavour provided by fresh ingredients. It has white rice, stir-fried with eggs, fish sauce, lime juice, soy sauce, palm sugar, garlic, tomato ketchup, onions, and garnished with fresh tomatoes and deshelled prawns. Commonly served in most casual Thai eateries.

Khao Pad Goong / Fried Rice With Prawn

Khao Pad Goong / Fried Rice With Prawn

The Khao Pod Tod / Sweet Corn Fritters are a crunchy, savoury sweet appetizer / snack, made with corn kernels, rice flour, egg, salt, and Thai basil leaves, all fried together into round fritters. Usually served with a dipping sauce of fish sauce and chili, or a sweet chili sauce.

Khao Pod Tod / Sweet Corn Fritters

Khao Pod Tod / Sweet Corn Fritters

The Khao Tang Na Tang is a simple, yet satisfiying, appetizer / snack, essentially rice crackers with a creamy, savoury pork and shrimp sauce. It consists of plain, crispy rice crackers (usually home made), while the delicious dipping sauce is made with coconut milk, tamarind paste, water, palm sugar, pepper, garlic, roasted peanuts, coriander, minced pork, chopped deshelled shrimp, fish sauce, and shallots. It's eaten by scooping the creamy sauce onto the rice crackers, then consumed in 1 mouthful.

Khao Tang Na Tang

Khao Tang Na Tang

Khao Tang Na Tang

The simple basic steamed Khao Plao / White Rice usually accompanies most Thai meals as the main staple. Typically made using Thai jasmine rice, the Khao Plao / White Rice has a fluffy sticky soft moist texture with grainy earthy sweet flavour. Most stall serve this in a regular bowl. In restaurants, it's usually served in various shapes as plating decor.

Khao Plao / White Rice

Khao Plao / White Rice

Khao Plao / White Rice

Commonly accompanying dishes in Bangkok, as well as in North and East Thailand, Khao Win / Sticky Rice is a staple of rural Thai people. This glutinous rice is easy to prepare by steaming, and while the Khao Win Khaw / Sticky Rice White is more common, the Khao Win Sida / Sticky Rice Black is more nutritious.

Khao Win Khaw / Sticky Rice White

Khao Win Sida / Sticky Rice Black

Grilled meats are a common sight here, and both the Ki Yang Sab / Grilled Chicken Chop and Yang Moo Sab / Grilled Pork Chop feature fillets of chicken and pork respectively, grilled over charcoal. With most places, this results in a savoury but rather dry chicken, but a savoury and moist pork, due to the fat being rendered down.

Ki Yang Sab / Grilled Chicken Chop

Ki Yang Sab / Grilled Chicken Chop

Yang Moo Sab / Grilled Pork Chop

Yang Moo Sab / Grilled Pork Chop

The Thai Chinese dish of Guay Tiew Moo Nam Sai Sen Lek / Pork Noodles Soup features a thin light soup / broth made from pork bones stewed over hours. Served with noodles of your choice, such as sen lek / thin flat rice noodles which has a sticky chewy texture with grainy sweet flavour. Garnishes of tender sliced pork loin, crumbly minced pork, springy pork meat balls, crisp bean sprouts, crunchy morning glory / water spinach leaves, tender braised pork, chewy pig small intestines, or chewy pork liver accompany. Sometimes, other ingredients such as tender fish cake, bouncy fish balls, or crispy dumpling skin crackers are also added. The lightness of this dish, with its meaty vegetal sweet savoury salty flavour, is appealing. For those who prefer a spicy kick, tom yum paste can be added, in which case the dish is known as Guay Tiew Moo Tom Yum Sen Lek / Tom Yum Pork Noodles Soup.

Guay Tiew Moo Nam Sai Sen Lek / Pork Noodles Soup

Guay Tiew Moo Nam Sai Sen Lek / Pork Noodles Soup

Guay Tiew Moo Tom Yum Sen Lek / Tom Yum Pork Noodles Soup

Guay Tiew Moo Tom Yum Sen Lek / Tom Yum Pork Noodles Soup

Guay Tiew Moo Nam Sai Sen Lek / Pork Noodles Soup

Guay Tiew Moo Nam Sai Sen Lek / Pork Noodles Soup

The Thai Chinese dish of Sup Luk Chin Pla / Mixed Fish Ball Soup features a thin, light soup / broth, without noodles. It features a variety of ingredients, including fried fish cake, steamed fish cake, fish balls, cabbage, kai-lan / Chinese kale / Chinese broccoli, bean sprouts, fish dumplings, and sliced fish fillet meat. Sometimes, minced pork or pork meat balls are added. As most of the fish cake here is hand made, you get a much stronger fish flavour as compared to the factory processed versions.

Sup Luk Chin Pla / Mixed Fish Ball Soup

Sup Luk Chin Pla / Mixed Fish Ball Soup

For authenticity, I got the Kuai Tiao Ruea / Boat Noodles on a boat, from a seller on the river, and ate it while travelling around on the boat! This special Thai Chinese dish is unique for its soup / broth flavoured with shrimp and pig's blood. It features wun sen / glass vermicelli noodles, fish cake, fish balls, minced pork, pork meat balls, bean sprouts, shrimp, pig's blood cake, and spring onions. You can also get this without the pig's blood.

Kuai Tiao Ruea / Boat Noodles

Kuai Tiao Ruea / Boat Noodles

The Miang Kham is a traditional Thai street snack, whose name translates to 'eating many things in 1 bite'. Formerly sold in the streets, it's now more commonly found in rural areas, as well as traditional Thai restaurants. A raw, fresh leaf of phak i leut / piper sarmentosum / wild betel is used to wrap a mixture of fillings, including toasted coconut shavings, shallots, ginger, garlic, lime wedges with skin on, unsalted peanuts / cashew nuts, dried shrimp, sour green mango, and chili. A light sauce of fish sauce and palm sugar is used as dressing, and the entire package is wrapped, then eaten in 1 mouthful. Quite fun to assemble, and also very tasty, with good contrast of flavours and textures!

Miang Kham

Miang Kham

The Moo Ping / Grilled Pork Skewer is a common street food in Bangkok, as well as Thailand, commonly found in most markets or along the roads. Small patties of fatty pork belly, dressed in palm sugar and fish sauce, are grilled. The savoury salty, moist pork meat is incredibly delicious, with a smoky aroma, and totally unstoppable. I keep wanting more!