z[PRIVATE] Thai Street Food

Thailand is famous for its delicious food. I find the best choice of foods on the streets. Usually the food stalls are specialised in only a few dishes that they prepare with great skills. Feeling brave? Try these Interesting Thai Food and Drinks . To find the places to eat, check out My Bangkok Restaurant Reviews .

Khao mok kay is a typical dish from the moslem south of Thailand. The marinated chicken is served in saffroned rice with a spicy sauce and sliced cucumber, garnished with fried shallots. The different set of spices and herbs makes this food taste totally different from the food in other parts of the country. It's one of my favourites.

Kay Yaang is another common street dish from the North-East (Isan) that you'll find everywhere. The marinated grilled chicken is usually eaten with sticky rice, often with som tam (papaya salad), and served with a spicy sauce. I myself prefer to eat it with the spicy but sweeter chicken sauce ("sauce kay") that is available in every grocery store.

Chicken, beef, pork, every type of meat can be added to this spicy stir-fried basil dish. Other ingredients are fresh ground chilli, garlic, bell pepper, onion and/or mushrooms. The vegetarian option is served with tofu. It's eaten with rice.

This regular Thai dish is often eaten for a quick breakfast or lunch with plain rice. Quite a few vendors will propose to put in moo sab (minced pork) or some other meat, but I always order it with mushroom and/or vegetables. It's served with a spicy chilli sauce.

One of the favourite dishes of the North- East (Isan) is laab. It is often made if with pork or chicken, but can also contain duck, fish or beef. The meat or fish is either raw or cooked, and mixed with onions, herbs, chilli and decorated with mint. Laab is usually eaten with a side dish of raw vegetables and the typical sticky rice of the region.

Another popular food from the North-East (Isan) is grilled pork neck. Depending on the original pig, it can be a bit fatty, but you can ask for just meat, no fat. The best stalls grilled it while you wait, slice it and sprinkle it with some herbs, onion and salt. They'll also give you a spicy dip. Delicious!

A very common street dish, Hoi Tod is usually available at the same food stalls as Pad Thai (fried noodle). The mussels are fried in a batter, mixed with spring onions and a sprinkle of herbs, and topped off  with (or put on top of) fresh bean sprouts. It's served with a chilli sauce.

A big round hot plate usually means pancakes. Not thick and soft as served in other parts of the world, but thin and crispy. Many fillings possible, but my personal favourite is banana. Folded double in the shape of a pizza slice it is a tasty snack.

A porridge based on rice boiled so long it has gone soft and slimy. Served with fresh ginger, spring onions, various types of meat, pepper and on request a raw egg. It is usually eaten as breakfast, although it can be available during the day. A delicious meal.

Sliced boiled chicken on rice (boiled with the oily ("man") part of the liquid left after boiling the chicken), served with a spicy sauce and some herbs and a small bowl of hot soup.

My favourite Thai food of all times. Thin sliced pork on rice, covered with a sweet red sauce. Add lime juice, brown soy sauce and eat it with some fresh spring onion and boiled egg. If lucky, you will be served a small bowl of soup as well.

Sliced roasted duck with gravy on rice, served with fresh ginger and some vegetables. Often served with a small bowl of soup. A nice change from chicken.

Sliced sweet mango, served with sticky rice, sweetened with coconut milk. Usually eaten as dessert, but I eat it as a complete meal sometimes. Heavy stuff but very good. A similar dish is served with durian instead of mango and is even more heavy but delicious too.

Fried rice with vegetable, egg and meat or seafood. A good fill up anytime.

In this rice soup you can still recognise the rice. Served with fresh herbs, garlic, onions and meat, fish or seafood, or as plain rice soup with load of delicious side dishes. Like jok it is usually eaten as breakfast and it tastes well.

Thai noodle soup, most popular street food ever. Available in many variations, depending on size and type of noodle (small (sen lek), big (sen yay), made with egg (bami)), type of meat and with or without soup (naam or haeng). Make it to your own taste by adding (dried) chilli, sugar, fish sauce and/or vinegar. Special varieties are radna, with big noodles served in gravy, yen ta fo, a pink seafood noodle soup, kuay jab, with offal, blood and big rolled noodles and kuay tiao tom yam, where the regular soup is replaced by spicy tom yam soup.

Pork meat on a stick grilled on the barbecue. Served with a spicy sauce and if you like, sticky rice. Other types of meat often available at the same shop are chicken liver (delicious), sour sausage (also delicious but very fat) and chicken ass (too chewy for my taste).

Fried meat with cashew nuts and chilli, a nice contrast of tastes.