Food for Thought (in Thailand)

Pad Thai - Peter's had 19 of these street food noodle delights. Every vendor has their own take but main ingredients are egg noodles, egg, mung bean, and fish sauce.

Thai Ice Tea - the best ice tea. Very sweet because half of it is condensed milk or evaporated milk with sugar. 

Spring rolls - tiny deep fried spring rolls stuffed with mung bean noodles. Served with chili garlic sauce. 

Thai crepe - rice taco is the best description I can think of. Ours were filled with shredded coconut and egg

Pandan wrapped chicken - coconut milk marinated chicken wrapped in pandan leaves and then deep fried. Gives the chicken a little nutty flavor. I'm pretty sure you don't eat the leaves

Papaya salad - if you don't like papaya, that's ok because it tastes nothing like papaya. It's uses green papaya (unripe papaya) and it's sour and sweet and salty and spicy. 

Meats on sticks - meats on sticks

Tom yum - sour and spicy soup filled with lots of herbs and spices.  Add coconut milk for a creamy version. 

Thai Suki - or hot pot. Hot pot is one of my favorite winter dishes. It's a communal pot full of broth where you dip and cook your own meat, vegetables, and noodles. 

Curry - made with coconut milk and almost always has chillies, lemon grass, galangal, kaffir lime, garlic, shallot, and cilantro. In order of spiciness, starting with most spicy: green, red, yellow. 

Chicken and rice - I'm not sure what this is called but we saw a lot of Thai people eating it so we just pointed to it and grunted words of desire. 

Mussel omelette - another great simple street food. Egg mix, oyster, and mung bean. 

Spicy Noodle Soup - noodle in soup with hot peppers. Oddly satisfying on a hot day

Sokhothai noodles - thin rice noodles usually in a sweet pork broth and ground peanuts. Pictured below is chicken - no piggies were hurt during this process. 

Morning Glory - really simple stir fry. It's green, crisp, and a little spicy. 

Chicken Panang - Peter's 2nd go-to dish in the U.S.. Chicken, curry, chilies, and coconut milk.  

Pineapple fried rice - fried rice served in a pineapple

Grilled fish - for like $5 you can get a whole grilled fish. They stuff it with onions and leeks so it tastes less fishy. 

Mango and sticky rice - mango has never failed here, and paired with sticky rice and coconut milk makes it a sweet, slightly salty, and very delicious dessert or snack.  

Coconut ice cream - coconut is abundant and fresh here so this makes sense.