Stories of a backpacker: Christmas in Thailand - Spin-off, "Food Compilation"

"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life."
-Emmet Fox

Have you ever eaten a scorpion?

Kao San Road, Bangkok, Thailand

Yes, this was another bucket's list goal I could achieve in Thailand, eating an insect.
If you never tried I will give you a small spoiler, it doesn't taste. It is really crunchy, but nothing that you can remind apart of the strange feeling while actually doing it!

Don't worry Thailand food is not only insects but much more and much better.
I want to write this post to show you how you can "survive" having a very cheap and tasty set of Street Food options.
Yes, because if you want to travel to Asia, and especially to Thailand you have to try the street food. Ok, maybe not the insects, but let's have a look to what I really enjoyed during my trips.

Pad Thai

The big classic, Pad Thai, so tasty and cheap. It is made with soaked dried rice noodles, which are stir-fried with eggs and chopped firm tofu.
You can find it in varieties of chicken, pork, fish or vegetarian. Already only with this one, you can cover enough meals.
If prepared in the street it costs around 50 Bhat, a bit more than one Euro, it has to be tried.

Chicken Pad Thai, Thailand

Rice with chicken and vegetables

Fried and steam chicken served with rice and vegetables. This classic street food can cost around 1.50 Euro.

Street Food, Thailand

Fruit, fruit, fruit

It's unbelievable how cheap fruit can be in Thailand. Fresh clean and cut pineapples for 1 Euro, fruit shake for 1.50, coconuts, bananas, dragon fruits, papaya and much more. With the warm and humidity you find there, I was eating fruit all day.

Fresh fruits in a big supermarket, Koh Chang, Thailand

Fish

Of course.
The country most common food, you can eat fresh fish for ridicolous prices. The street food it's full, it this picture some big rotating fishes on the sidewalk.

Fish street food, Bangkok

Chinese food

Chinese food is obviously everywhere.
Roast beef with barbecue sauce served with rice at the table. The cost, about 2.50 €.

Chinese restaurant, Bangkok

Food island MBK, Bangkok

A champion's breakfast

Omelets with tomatoes and onion, sandwich with tuna and tomatoes. Accompanied by orange juice. It would have been a long day.

International breakfast, Koh Chang, Thailand

Stir fried noodles

Stir fried noodles with chicken, varied with pork, fish or tofu.
I learned to eat with chopsticks. Yeah!
Street food. Very tasty, price around one euro.

Street food noodles, Koh Phangan, Thailand

Hungry Nerd Restaurant

A friendry franchising restaurant line, with very good prices.
If you want to relax eating at the table.
Chicken steak served with toast, french fries, salad, and sauces.
Only about 2 Euro.

Fast food restaurant, Bangkok

Food porn

Fried seafood served on the pan, the photo cannot tell how much tasty this can be.
Cost about 3 Euro.

Central Festival, Pattaya, Thailand

Dessert

Banana and chocolate waffles. 1.50 Euro.

MBK Food Island, Bangkok

And the insects?

If you want to try the insects don't do it in Kao San Road, they are expensive and probably not so healty there.
But if you're traveling around Thailand, you'll maybe find a more affordable insect street food stand like this, and who knows, maybe you'll be brave enough to try...

Insect street food, Koh Chang, Thailand

Tiziano

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