The Thailand Tour: The Taste

My biggest worry in this country was that there wouldn't be enough meals in 14 days to get a taste of everything.

I'd say I did pretty well. Curries, noodles, pad thai, rice, pad thai, soups, exotic fruits, fresh shakes, unidentified snacks... bugs...

Everything was so delicious. and CHEAP! Where else can you get a delicious and satisfying meal, a desert, and two beers for under $10... The most expensive dish I had was 110฿ which is equivalent to about $3:50 and that was because we were at a legitimate restaurant rather than a local family operated stall on the street. We went with pad thai for our very first meal and it did not disappoint.. and there were many more meals including this classic fave! Knowing me, I would opt for seafood over any other meat but the one day I only had the option of chicken happened to be Good Friday...oopsie.

Take a gander:

Pad Thai

Shrimp Fried Rice

Chicken Stir Fried with Basil

Green Curry with Chicken and Eggplant

Stir Fried Shrimp with Red Curry and Coconut Milk

Tom Yum Soup with Shrimp

Khao Soi with Chicken

Green Papaya Salad

Rice Topped with Fried Egg and Chicken with Chilies

Shrimp Pad Thai

Massaman Curry with Vegetables

Thai Style Omlette

Thai Curry and Fresh Veggie Spring Rolls

Red Curry Soup and Pineapple Fried Rice

Curried Pumpkin, Long Beans and Tofu, and Stir Fried Cucumber and Tomato

Fresh fruit shakes were a necessity to cool down in the sweltering heat.. coconut, watermelon, pineapple, papaya mmmm. 

Fresh Watermelon Shake

Grilled Bananas

Pressed in Banana Leaves

Mornings there would be stalls with sweet snacks where one day we indulged in every option available. I couldn't tell you exactly what it was that we were eating but it usually consisted of some sort of coconut cream and was always delicious. 

Sticky Rice with Banana

When it came to desert we could not resist a good "rotee". This amazing creation was the definition of delicious. A ball of dough that is whipped around and spun out into a large, thin crepe thing and then fried with a concoction of either some sort of fruit and egg mixture in the middle, folded up, flipped around, cut up into pieces and doused with chocolate sauce and condensed milk. Oh my yum.

Rotee with Pineapple and Chocolate

Thai Pancake with Sugar

Whenever they would let me I would taste the different fruits they had available like rambutan, jackfruit, pomelo, durian, sapodila, papaya, and rose apple... and I could never get enough of the little egg bananas!

Cicada, anyone?

It's definitely sad to leave all this behind... between taste, variety, and affordability I ate some of the most delicious food I've tasted in these two weeks! Be jealous. Although, it was nice to find that the Thai food you can get at a good restaurant back home is surprisingly authentic and definitely a suitable substitute for the real deal... so I know what I'll be ordering when I eat out at home from now on!

Back to AUS means back to my yogurt and granola for breakfast.

Sincerely, 

THAI