I have had an opportunity to visit and enjoy Thailand recently (Thanks to my dear Thai friend of 20 years or so). I have learned a lot about the country's food culture and her people. Both are very satisfying. Food was good! The people are very friendly and kind. The surroundings are safe for both locals and foreigners. The sumptuous mix of herbs and spices make Thai dishes so exquisite. They could elevate a person's appetite to a much higher level. Truly delicious...truly wonderful.
Here are some photos that I am sharing with you. Hope you enjoy them.
Unique to street foods in Thailand is the presence of sticky rice for sale with other dishes such as pork, fruits and coconut milk. Sticky rice comes as the plain white one or mixed with black rice. Here, pork barbecue really tasted better with white-black sticky rice. I ate three sticks of freshly fried pork barbecue and two plastic bags of sticky rice. The added bonus - it was cheap!
A beauty drink and usually added as a component of beauty products - yes, it is the pomegranate - its juices have already been squeezed sanitarily and packed in bottles for convenient consumption.
Crunchy snack like this makes a good tummy filler while roaming around Bangkok. The cones are like those for ice cream. The fillings are sweet egg and coconut meat. Yummy!
A lot of collagen here - again for beauty but overall, it's a bit fatty so it might not be recommended for daily consumption. Yet, indulge if only for one meal because it is temptingly delicious!
This is the real thing! Thai authentic dishes. The combination of spices and herbs is really fabulous! Mouth watering. This whole set makes a superb harmony of all Thai seasonings, vegetables, fish and pork giving me a very lovely night with my Thai friends.
Vegetables and herbs are eaten raw. Here, my friends and I prepared a variety of dishes of which one of them was fried larvae from bamboo trees (the brown one to your left). I was the one who made it teriyaki-style. That made it salty and sweet because of the soysauce anf sugarcane juice added into the larvae. What an experience eating those larvae, crispy on the outside but soft on the inside!
Fish in red curry
(hot!)
Home-cooking of my friend's sister-in-law: The red soup was hot together with the others except for the non-red soup (slightly clear). Fish sauce is the main ingredient of the sauce for the slightly clear soup.
A food stall serves fermented bamboo shoots in chili sauce.
A favorite of mine - Pad Thai
Pad Thai is eaten with raw vegetables and drizzled with lemon.
Although most Thai foods are hot, some are not, especially those that originated from China. Here, all the dishes are Chinese cooking because the host and his wife are of Chinese descent.
These are usually the herbs and spices that go with the Thai dish called "Larb or Larp" - ground pork or chicken with fish sauce and purple onions. Most of the herbs are aromatic. They are eaten raw.
This is cooked pandan-flavored rice dough made into strips (called "Rodchong"). It is eaten by putting them in sweetened coconut milk.
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