Show Us Your Favorite Soi Food

[NguuMuu]

Some bird (what kind?) eggs: (kai nok gataa)

[NguuMuu]

Some dancing shrimp salad...yum! Yes they we're actually jumping out of the bowl.

Goong Dten

[NguuMuu]

A simple Thai meal...some fish, chili sauce, and a few vegetables.

bplaa tuu + nam prik ga-bpii

[NguuMuu]

A psuedo-sausage salad (I guess...). Those white strands are pork fat...the extra chewy/hard fat from right under the skin. This is definitely not one of my preferences.

yam naem

[NguuMuu]

Here's some curry with fish eggs. Those are some big clumps of them in the spoon and lots of individual eggs floating around. It's pretty tasty.

Gaeng som kai bplaa

[NguuMuu]

Thai style pumpkin pie!

sang kaiyaa fak tong

[NguuMuu]

Who knew you could make a whole meal out of weeds? Some of them (like the cha-om for example) even have thorns on them. Here's a little variety pack...add some chilli sauce and there you go..

nam prik pak dtom

[NguuMuu]

Take some peanuts, toasted coconut, dried shrimp, lime, ginger, chillis and onions, wrap them up in a leaf, then add a sweet sauce and what do you have? an ages old Thai snack...miang kam

[NguuMuu]

A plateful of malaeng (bugs)....here we have some crickets, frogs, and ants.

[NguuMuu]

Some more scorpions and a large insect (I have no idea what kind) for the girlfriend. The sandwich in the background is for me. The large insect is also a common ingrediant in chilli sauces. It has a distinct, pungent taste that is, well, just disgusting (IMHnon-thaiO). If it is in a chilli sauce I can tell instantly by the taste.

malaeng bong (scorpion) and maeng da (?)

[NguuMuu]

Some tasty sausages and chestnuts...all at the same vendor. Anyone know what that spiky green thing is next to the chestnuts?

name wuun sen + (chestnut in thai?)

[NguuMuu]

Some fried flowers on the tiny bangkok island ko kret. Aroi mak!

dawk mai tawt

[NguuMuu]

And last, but not least, everyone should give frogs on a stick a try. Tastes like chicken....jing jing!

And this concludes my display of locally available soi food. I hope you guys enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed eating (most of) it!

[aughie]

The Shangri-La also serves non-soi food.

I took a date to the same buffet. She loved it though I had to convince her to eat at our table.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c268/fro...pet/buffetB.jpg

Edited May 28, 2006 by aughie

[aughie]

btw nice pics NquuMuu

[corkscrew]

And last, but not least, everyone should give frogs on a stick a try. Tastes like chicken....jing jing!

And this concludes my display of locally available soi food. I hope you guys enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed eating (most of) it!

Thanks for the fantastic display of local soi food. It should be pinned!

[p_brownstone]

An English Teacher in Bangkok runs an interesting - and well illustrated - Blog on Thai Foodstalls:

http://www.thai-blogs.com/index.php?blog=5&cat=46

Patrick

[richardbarrow]

An English Teacher in Bangkok runs an interesting - and well illustrated - Blog on Thai Foodstalls:

http://www.thai-blogs.com/index.php?blog=5&cat=46

Thanks Patrick. I saw on my stats that you were linking to me. Just to correct you a little, I am a humble teacher in Samut Prakan, a small province south of Bangkok. You can find the main location for this food blog at www.enjoythaifood.com. The main site has a talking menu with 600 sound clips, over 1000 Thai food pictures and about 20 or so cooking videos that you can download for free. It is a blog I enjoy doing in my spare time when I am not teaching.

[ProfessorFart]

Looks a very good site Richard.

Look forward to browsing through it when I have the time!

[corkscrew]

An English Teacher in Bangkok runs an interesting - and well illustrated - Blog on Thai Foodstalls:

http://www.thai-blogs.com/index.php?blog=5&cat=46

Thanks Patrick. I saw on my stats that you were linking to me. Just to correct you a little, I am a humble teacher in Samut Prakan, a small province south of Bangkok. You can find the main location for this food blog at www.enjoythaifood.com. The main site has a talking menu with 600 sound clips, over 1000 Thai food pictures and about 20 or so cooking videos that you can download for free. It is a blog I enjoy doing in my spare time when I am not teaching.

What a great web site. I have bookmarked it for frequent reference. Thanks for creating it.