Street Food | It will leave you with food for thought!
Thailand – street food at its best
We are going to Thailand!
If you talk street food there is one item you have to put on your bucket list and that is eating fried insects and of course those air-breathing eight legs creatures, scorpions.
I took my daughter to Thailand for her 18th birthday. As my brother is living in Bangkok we got clear instructions, no Westernize food for the period that we will be visiting him. My first thought, this cannot be too bad.
One thing I don’t have is an adventurous palate. I like to stick to food that I know what it is, how it is cooked, and where it comes from. On the other hand I feel that if you tour other countries you must be willing to try their local cuisine and that is what I’ve been doing. After all, what can be worse than the Aussie’s beetroot salad on a hamburger or even sheep tripe from my own country?
Then one night just before we left I watch a documentary on television about Thailand. Guess what popped up? This world-famous guy selling fried grasshoppers, cockroaches, scorpions, and many other insects in the town of Pattaya on the eastern side of Bangkok, 147 kilometers away.
I gave a sighed in relief. I will be safe!
Pattaya is far away from Bangkok especially if you must make use of public transport, my thoughts.
Thai people love to snack! You will see plenty of them stopping at street vendors on their way to work for a snack. They will snack in the morning and the afternoon and if it is not fruit or noodles it will be fried ants.
One thing I don’t have is an adventurous palate. I like to stick to food that I know what it is, how it is cooked, and where it comes from. Then again, I feel that if you tour other countries you must be willing to try their local cuisine.
On our arrival, we booked into our hotel and await my brother. Soon we had to discover that he had a “surprise” for us, we are going to Pattaya!
No ways!
On our second night in Pattaya, he took us to Walking Street, a tourist attraction and a street filled with traffic during the day and at night with people walking visiting the stalls of vendors, restaurants, clubs, go-go bars and, yes, those street food stalls.
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Believe it or not, one of the first stalls we saw, the same guy I saw on television.
At first sight, you feel very creepy when you see what you are about to eat but then you tell yourself that at least they are dead and fried. It is not a twisting octopus tentacle or a beating heart of a frog. It is insects fried in a wok with seasoning like Thai pepper powder sprinkled on top.
Before I could place my first fried bamboo worm in my mouth I was told that it is extremely high in protein. Little did the vendor know that one worm is not going to be as high in protein as the steak I had for lunch.
The worm was not too bad and so not the frog legs, crunchy that’s for sure and also salty. I love crunchy food.
When it came to the scorpion I called it a day. I will rather stick to Tom Yum Goong, Thailand’s famous spice prawn soup.
When I took hubby to Thailand a visit to "my favorite stall" in Pattaya was a must. Same, place, same guy and same menu. This time I tried a grasshopper. Surprisingly it even had a nutty taste.
At least I can say, I did it and I liked fried insects unexpectedly.
Street food, it will leave you with food for thought but you have to try it !
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We hope so. ☺️ Really enjoyed your text. I can't wait to do the same by eating some cockroaches in those countries soon. 😝
Hahaha! Just make sure you are hungry before you.
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LoL 🤣 That's true 😂
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Congratulations! Your Comment has been upvoted through steemcurator04. We support good comments anywhere..Que valiente eres, amiga. Comer insectos, es increíble jejeje 😂
Los tailandeses tienen un tremendo paladar.
En los bajos delta del Orinoco, Venezuela, los indígenas Waraos comen mucho el gusano de moriche. Se lo comen vivo y dicen que es delicioso. Del moriche, solo tomo el fruto para hacer merengada jeje.
Tuvieron una gran experiencia. Tu hijo debió quedar fascinado.
Muchas gracias por compartir.
Feliz y bendecido día ☀️🙌
Oh my word alive! Now that I don't see chance for.
In South Africa we have a worm, the mopani worm. It is to believe that it is very rich in nutrients and therefore it is also used for medicine building the immune system.
At least it is not eaten alive.
Thanks for the visit! 🎕
Si, al menos Jeje 😂
Bendecido día amiga. 🙏☀️💜
Oh sí cucarachas fritas y gusanitos ricos en proteínas, que rico!!
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Un dia me voy a vengar de ti por haberme hecho leer semejante asunto.!! aún no se como pero ya se me ocurrirá algo!!
Haha! Wait this is nothing... there is more to come 😉
Hello friend, I must tell you that having an adventurous palate must be like a great privilege hahaha. And maybe I think so because my palate is not.
There are strange foods in Venezuela like beef belly or beef tongue, or pig's feet, and that is very strange to me and I don't like it.
When I was a student in a city far from my family, I discovered that with a lot of appetite, anything is appetizing, and well, I would have to go very hungry to that place that you present to us, so I would give free rein to try anything they tell me that it is eatable.🤣
Thank you for sharing this place of food in Thailand, so curious and famous in the world.
Greetings and blessings.🤗🌺
Thanks for the visit and the engagement!
You made me smile with your "very hungry" (•ิ‿•ิ)
Beef tongue, now this is something we do eat in South Africa. In fact, it is a dish you will get on Christmas Day in many households.
It is normally served cold with mustard.
It sells at nearly 18 STEEM per kg. which is expensive.
It is not my favorite but I do eat it. (•ิ‿•ิ)
Yes, in my case I realized that when I'm very hungry everything is appetizing, obviously whatever is edible hahaha.
Oh 18 Steem is expensive yes. In Venezuela, 1 kg of chicken costs that.
Join the club! I also like eating (•ิ‿•ิ)
Gosh that is expensive for chicken. 9 STEEM is more or less the price for chicken by us per kg. That is for a whole chicken.
If you buy pieces or chicken fillet it is more expensive.
Looks like you will have to come to South Africa to stock up on chicken my friend.
That chicken is going to be more expensive still!🤣
I prefer to go see the beaches and the jungle🥰
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I probably like to eat local food when traveling, but it should not be very extreme.
I agree with you, extreme is fine but "very extreme" is not so fine.
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That's the Great Gift for a birthday. I also in favour to visit other countries to know about them and to explore the beauty. Street food stalls and vendors represent the local culture of that area. I love to engage with street stalls and vendors while visiting any area.
Best of all, street vendors are so much cheaper:-)
Often a bargain for what you pay.
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