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Top 10 Bangkok Street Foods to Try

Top 10 Bangkok Street Foods to Try
Bangkok.com | Bangkok Street Food

Street food in Thailand’s bustling capital dates back to the sixteenth century, when wares were sold from floating markets. Visit Bangkok today, and food is still sold along khlongs, the ancient canals that cross the city—but also on street corners, in alleys, from mobile metal carts, and inside covered markets in nearly every corner of the city.

While listing every dish to try in Bangkok would be impossible, here are the 15 dishes we’d start with.

 

Khao Man Gai

Compared to other Thai dishes, which rank high in the spice factor, khao man gai, or steamed chicken on rice, is relatively tame. The dish is typically served with a chili dip.

Image: Eating Thai Food
Image: Eating Thai Food

 

Tom Yum

A combination of salty, sweet, spicy, and sour owing to its ingredients—most often including shrimp, mushrooms, tomatoes, lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves—tom yum is a puzzle for your tastebuds.

Image: Eating Thai Food
Image: Eating Thai Food

 

 

Hoy Tod

This dish is closer to a crispy pancake—and can be eaten at all hours of the day (or night). For it, hawkers combine fresh mussels or oysters with eggs and top with green onions and chilli sauce.

Image: Eating Thai Food
Image: Eating Thai Food

 

Plao Pao

Whole fish stuffed with lemongrass, crusted in salt, and grilled to blackened perfection. 

Image: Mark Wiens
Image: Mark Wiens

 

Bua Loy Nam Khing

Black-sesame filled dumplings, which sit in syrupy ginger broth. The dish translates to “floating lotus,” for the way the dumplings resemble the sacred flowers on the surface of a pond.

Image: Eating Thai Food
Image: Eating Thai Food

 

Pad Thai

A mix of stir-fried rice noodles with tofu, peanuts, green onions, bean sprouts, garlic, pepper, and fish sauce, pad thai is best when topped with a squeeze of lime and some crushed peanuts.

Image: Taste.com.au
Image: Taste.com.au

 

Chicken Satay

Thinly sliced pieces of meat threaded on a bamboo stick, grilled over an open flame, and served with a sauce (we prefer peanut). Pair with a sweet-spicy relish comprising cucumbers, chilies, cilantro, and shallots.

Image: Pinterest
Image: Pinterest

 

Mu Daeng

Traditionally given its color by a herb and berry marinade (nowadays, most commonly, food coloring) mu daeng, or red pork, is the Thai version of barbecue. Eat with lots (and lots) of sticky rice.

Image: Wikimedia Commons
Image: Wikimedia Commons

 

 

Kao Pad

Thai jasmine rice, sugar, salt, soy sauce, and nam pla (fish sauce) are mixed with whatever you want, plucked from individual baskets full of ingredients—we’re partial to carrot, tomato, egg, and shrimp (kao pad goong).

Image: Conde Nast Traveller
Image: Conde Nast Traveller

 

Som Tam

Som tam, or green papaya salad, begins with crushing chilies and garlic, then tossing in tamarind juice, fish sauce, peanuts, lime juice, sugar cane paste, tomatoes, beans, dried shrimp, and what is arguably the most important ingredient—grated green papaya.

Image: Conde Nast Traveller
Image: Conde Nast Traveller

 

 

 


Source : Conde Nast Traveller

Indah Gilang Pusparani

Indah is a researcher at Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Daerah Kota Cirebon (Regional Development Planning and Research Agency of Cirebon Municipality). She covers More international relations, tourism, and startups in Southeast Asia region and beyond. Indah graduated from MSc Development Administration and Planning from University College London, United Kingdom in 2015. She finished bachelor degree from International Relations from University of Indonesia in 2014, with two exchange programs in Political Science at National University of Singapore and New Media in Journalism at Ball State University, USA. She was awarded Diplomacy Award at Harvard World Model United Nations and named as Indonesian Gifted Researcher by Australian National University. She is Researcher at Regional Planning Board in Cirebon, West Java. She previously worked as Editor in Bening Communication, the Commonwealth Parliament Association UK, and diplomacy consulting firm Best Delegate LLC in USA. Less
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