Thai Food Cheat Sheet!

[junkofdavid2]

Please list your favorite dishes with English translation. Please use Western alphabet for those of us who can't read Thai.

I'll start with mine:

Moo Krob Kratiyem - Crispy Fried Pork stir fried with garlic

Kapow Moo Krob - Crispy Fried Pork stir fried with garlic, basil, and some kinda sauce.

Kana Moo Krob - Some kind of thick crunchy green vegetable stir fried with crispy pork, chili, and a little garlic.

Gkung Kratiyem - Prawns stir fried in garlic

Kaw Pad Pla Kem - Fried rice with salted fish

Koi Dai - Clams stir fried in chili, ginger, and some kind of slightly sweet sauce

Het Sot - Mushrooms stir fried

Gai Thod - Fried chicken (in some places, it's dam_n good and tasty, must be the Thai marinade or the overly re-used oil!)

Edited November 11, 2007 by junkofdavid2

[Jingthing]

Careful or the you must learn Thai OR ELSE crowd will crucify you.

[peterpaintpot]

Please list your favorite dishes with English translation. Please use Western alphabet for those of us who can't read Thai.

I'll start with mine:

Moo Krob Kratiyem - Crispy Fried Pork stir fried with garlic

Kapow Moo Krob - Crispy Fried Pork stir fried with garlic, basil, and some kinda sauce.

Kana Moo Krob - Some kind of thick crunchy green vegetable stir fried with crispy pork, chili, and a little garlic.

Gkung Kratiyem - Prawns stir fried in garlic

Kaw Pad Pla Kem - Fried rice with salted fish

Koi Dai - Clams stir fried in chili, ginger, and some kind of slightly sweet sauce

Het Sot - Mushrooms stir fried

Gai Thod - Fried chicken (in some places, it's dam_n good and tasty, must be the Thai marinade or the overly re-used oil!)

[peterpaintpot]

Oops, Sorry!!

Meant to say: my personal favourite is KAENG MATSAMAN NEUA, beef matsaman - similar to good old "English Curry", contains onion, potato, peanuts, coconut milk and has a much thicker sauce than a green or red curry! You can substitute pork or chicken for the beef.

If anyone is interested I have a cookery book for Thai food where the left hand page is Thai and the right hand is English so my wife and I can both easily read it. It was very useful in England when my wife was shopping for Thai ingredients.

Details are: ISBN 9747160-72-2, Authentic Thai Food, published by Sangdad Publishing Co. Ltd. We paid 295 baht for it - a snip!

[Ping]

This link may have been pasted in the past, but for those unaware of it:

http://www.nachang.com/travelmenu/thai_travel_menu.pdf

[junkofdavid2]

This link may have been pasted in the past, but for those unaware of it:

http://www.nachang.com/travelmenu/thai_travel_menu.pdf

Exactly what I've been looking for!

Thanks Ping!

[Ping]

Always a service to do pleasure...

[junkofdavid2]

Always a service to do pleasure...

Hope you don't work on soi 4...

[Aardvark]

Thanks Ping, just came across your post and printed the menu. This will come in very handy in the future. Problem is now I'm hungry and in Australia so will have to wait to try it out

[Ping]

Glad it was helpful - but I only provided the link. The author of it did quite a decent job...

[suegha]

Glad it was helpful - but I only provided the link. The author of it did quite a decent job...

They did do that!

[MiG16]

Problem is now I'm hungry and in Australia so will have to wait to try it out

shouldnt be a problem really. australia...especially Sydney...has LOTSSSSSS of thai restuarants. and some are really really good. PM me to ask for suggestions if u are in Sydney

[billd766]

I knocked up an idiots guide to Thai stuff on excel that did a bit of menus, some food shopping, building bits and odd names etc but I didn't get my wife to type all the Thai langusge bits for me, I suspect she was a bit lazy and I forgot about it.

Here is is if anybody wants it.

idiots_guide_to_Thai_stuff.xls