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Street Food: Delicious Braised Pork Rice
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  • Wild_Orchid
  • Updated By Wild_Orchid on June 22, 2006
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  • braised pork rice - Bangkok
    braised pork rice
    by Wild_Orchid, 1 more photos
    There is nothing special about the surroundings or any particular ambience. However, if you'd like to eat like the locals do, and you are at Silom, near Patpong night market, look out for this food vendor who sets up his stall in the evenings, from about 5.30 pm. Before he can even set up his tables and chairs, the customers are already lining up to order their take-aways.

    By the way, the stall owner speak English and Mandarin, which is great, isn't it?

    Braised pork rice. You can choose to have either pork meat alone or pork meat with some pig's intestines (if you like offal, which I do).

    The rice is not exactly that warm, but the stew is still hot. If you take a seat, he will serve you iced water at no extra charge (see pics). The table has the usual array of bird's eye chilli, small cloves of garlic and chilli sauce.

    The cost: 35-40 baht per plate.

    By Malaysian standards, I found the servings to be smallish so we usually ordered 3 plates between 2 persons. I often wonder why the servings are so small-is it because Thais are small eaters? who can tell me?

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  • Theme: Street Vendor
  • Price: less than US$10    » Currency Converter
  • Comparison: about average
  • Address: 54 Surawongse Road
  • Directions: Lane outside Montien hotel, in front of a bank.
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    Street Food: porridge, it's not just for breakfast
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  • richiecdisc
  • Updated By richiecdisc on August 12, 2005
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  • my favorite way to start my day - Bangkok
    my favorite way to start my
    day
    by richiecdisc
    Porridge is a popular food throughout Southeast Asia in one form or another but I must say, I found the Thai version the tastiest. This particular street stall was pretty busy all day and spanned two sides of an entire city corner. I found it most rewarding to have breakfast here but D couldn’t stomach it early in the morning. I generally got up really early and ventured off to eat solo, returning with her sometimes at night for a snack of the same thing I’d had earlier. Typical of the region, you find a seat at one of the low plastic tables and get someone’s attention with a two symbol to expedite your order. Though there were some tourists giving it a go, even most of them were Asian, and certainly lots of Thais digging in as well. In the morning, nary a backpacker could be found and I found myself surrounded entirely by locals slurping down what I must admit would be my everyday breakfast if I lived in town.

    The porridge itself is a fairly bland rice based thick broth that is enhanced by tasty pork meatballs and a raw egg. I never figured out how to order it without the egg and didn’t get sick so I wouldn’t worry much about it. It does add to the flavor and texture and imagine only people with little money do without. On your table is an assortment of things to add that really makes the whole affair so special. There is fresh chopped lemon grass (truly essential), fish sauce, chillies, sugar (!), and curiously some friend donuts for dipping. It may sound bizarre but I ate this every morning and if I was hungry and in the neighborhood, I’d have it again with D if she was in the mood. At only 20 B (fifty cents), it was a tasty and filling bargain to boot.

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  • Address: corner of Rambutri & Tanao
  • Directions: This is a parallel street to Khao San Road, close to many popular nightspots.
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    Street Food: Thai Chicken Soup in Coconut Milk (Tom Kha Gai)
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  • machomikemd
  • By machomikemd on October 8, 2007
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  • Very Spicy but Good! - Bangkok
    Very Spicy but Good!
    by machomikemd
    Thai Chicken Soup in Coconut Milk (Tom Kha Gai) is the second most popular thai spicy soup for foreigners in Bangkok. It is a hot sweet soup made with coconut milk, lemon grass and chicken. The name literally translates to boiled galangal chicken. The fried chillies add a smoky flavor as well as texture, color and heat, but not so much that it. tom yam takes on a fiery heat and slight sourness from the addition of tamarind chili sauce (nam prik phao), while tom kha gai is silky smooth because of the inclusion of sweet and mellow coconut milk. It costs about 40-50 Baht at Street Stalls, 60 Baht at Tuk Lae Dee Restaurant at Foodland Supermarkets and 65 Baht at food courts.

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  • Address: Street Vendors!, Food Courts, Tuk Lae Dee Resto!
  • Directions: All over Bangkok
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    Street Food: Sometimes..it is good to eat in the street....
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  • shintarojon
  • By shintarojon on March 4, 2004
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  • Street food - Bangkok
    Street food
    by shintarojon
    as of Feb. 11, 2004 (dinner)
    1. Pat-Priao-Wan (sweet & sour fried vegetables) - THB 30
    2. Pat-Kana (fried chinese kale) - THB 30
    3. Rice - THB 5

    Others:
    1. Kuay-Taew-Mu (pork noodles) - THB 25
    2. Pat-Pak-Raum-Mid with rice (pork with fried vegetables) - THB 25
    3. Phao-Prik-Mu (fried pork w/thai curry) - THB 25
    4. Nam-Woon-Bai-Toey - THB 10
    5, Cha-Dam-Yen (black chinese tea) - THB 10

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  • Address: Street Vendors!
  • Directions: near Khao San Road and other places
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    Street Food: Tod Mun Pla Fish Cake!
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  • machomikemd
  • By machomikemd on October 8, 2007
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  • Yum, Cheap at Street Vendors! - Bangkok
    Yum, Cheap at Street Vendors!
    by machomikemd, 1 more photos
    Sold on the streets of Thailand, this all-time favourite Thai fish cake (made from mud fish) is irresistible when served spiced with Thai curry and kaffir lime leaves. They can be eaten as appetizer or as a filling meal with rice. (Gullivers Tavern also makes good fish cakes! but it cost 90 Baht there). Cost about 40-50 Baht per order in street stalls and hawker stalls.

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    Street Food: More `exotic' foods..
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  • dmirebella
  • By dmirebella on February 18, 2004
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  • Street Food - Bangkok
    by dmirebella
    NOW... Thailand's famous (Jatujak) JJK market is a treasure throve when it comes to cheap food and even friendlier vendors. Ask ANY visitor to JJK and the thing that would grab attention would be the the fried locust, fried grasshoppers, friend roaches, fried maggots.. .... its not too bad either.. once you get used to the fact that its bugs that you're munching on.

    Fried roaches.. it taste like sausages.. *honest*..
    Add a dash of spicy sauce and bite hard, the squishy insides would burst in your mouth.. really nice..

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  • Directions: Take the sky train to Mo-Chit station.. you cant miss it,
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    Street Food: Green Curry (Kaeng khiaw waan):
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  • machomikemd
  • By machomikemd on October 12, 2007
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  • Kaeng khiaw waan Kai (Chicken w/ Green Curry!) - Bangkok
    Kaeng khiaw waan Kai (Chicken
    w/ Green Curry!)
    by machomikemd, 1 more photos
    The most spicy of all the curries, as the word might suggest it looks green and usually has some vegetables in it that look like small green tomatoes, these you can eat but don't eat the green peas in this curry as they are extremely bitter. I still don't know why they keep adding these things as they are really disgusting but the curry itself is excellent and usually chicken, shrimp, pork or beef is added to it. (costs 60 Baht at Tuk Lae Dee and 45 Baht at Street Stalls and is called Kaeng khiaw waan Kai)

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    Street Food: Tom Yum Soup
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  • machomikemd
  • By machomikemd on October 8, 2007
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  • Very Spicy! - Bangkok
    Very Spicy!
    by machomikemd
    Tom Yum is the most famous of Thai soups, particularly Tom Yum Goong (Sour & Spicy Lemongrass Shrimp Soup). It is a clear sour which is flavored with fresh lemon grass and kaffir lime leaf. The most well-known version uses shrimp (in Thai: goong, koon, kung), but you may also use firm white-flesh fish (Tom Yum Taleh) or chicken (gy or kai).

    Tom yum is characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavors, with fragrant herbs generously used. The basic broth is made of stock and fresh ingredients such as lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, shallots, lime juice, fish sauce, tamarind, and crushed chilis.

    Tom Yum Goong is available everywhere in Bangkok and Thailand and costs 60-80 Baht in street stalls and 90 to 120 baht in Food Courts like Siam paragon, Central World or MBK.

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    Street Food: Try something NEW!
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  • awayhome
  • Updated By awayhome on March 25, 2004
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  • Street Food - Bangkok
    by awayhome
    Try some thing new! you'll never have before, and you'll never forget this Experience. Deep fried Bugs. Let try the crispy once!

    Deep fried Scorpions, worms, gigolos, scorpions, fogs, and so may more.

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  • Address: almost everywhere in Bangkok.
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    Street Food: Delicious Thai specialities the way they should be
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  • Joenes
  • Updated By Joenes on January 3, 2005
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  • Street Vendors - Bangkok
    Street Vendors
    by Joenes
    All over Bangkok on almost every streetcorner you will find stands where you can buy all sorts of food,hot and cold.
    I have eaten a lot and never got sick so the food is as trustworthy as the hamburgers you buy at your local cafetaria.
    Fresh fruit like pineapple is very refreshing in the heat of Bangkok!

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