Street food

[turock1000]

Here are some of my favourite dishes

 

Kow Pad gai - Fried rice with chicken

Moo ka tee um - Fried garlic and pepper pork

Pad thai gai - noodle dish with chicken

Moo pad ka pow - ground pork with some vegies and chillies

Tom yum goong - spicy soup with prawn

Tom ka gai - creamy soup with vegetables and chicken

kang keow warn - green curry

ky dow - Fried egg

neau - Beef

Plaa - fish

Puk - vegetables

 

Additions -

 

Prik bon - chillie flakes

See you kow - soy sauce

narm plaa - Fish sauce

pett - spicy

 

When ordering just speak how these are spelled and they should understand

[azulblue]

Many thanks!

Hi everyone! Here is a book about food from street vendors. Transcription in english. Very useful!

I've just saved a copy. It looks like it is very informative.

...and it has lots of pictures!

Edited September 7, 2009 by azulblue

[furryman]

Hi everyone! Here is a book about food from street vendors. Transcription in english. Very useful!

that is a pretty great little pamphlet if only for this line:

 

mai sai sai - without intestines

 

[Steelman]

Try importfood.com. There are recipes that will tell what ingredients are in the food and video and audio. They will say the name of the food in Thai.

[manufan]

I always open my mouth & ask for what i want. And 99.9% they can understand. Try it!!!