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Donuts in Koh Phangan
Three weeks into this trip and I am certain I will be thoroughly disappointed with everything I eat once I get home. Before coming here, I knew I liked Thai food, but after eating at least one different Thai dish every day, I’ve learned there is so much more to Thai cuisine than green curry and Pad Thai.
Two nights ago for about $9 I ate a crocodile skewer with corn, zucchini and tomatoes. It was delicious, straddling the taste spectrum somewhere between chicken and pork, crocodile has the chewy texture you’d expect from a reptile. The purchase of a skewer also gave me access to an all you can eat buffet of mouth-watering sauteed vegetables, fish, salads, onion rings, fried rice, deep-fried bananas, and watermelon.
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Crocodile meat
I’ve had Pad Thai four times so far. Twice off street carts, and twice from restaurants. Sometimes with chicken and other times with prawns. Sometimes with bean sprouts on the side and sometimes with whole peanuts. Each time it has tasted completely different, which means I could probably eat Pad Thai every day and not get bored.
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Street food in Bangkok
In Koh Phayam I ate a succulent fried red snapper fillet with crunchy Thai onions and spicy herbs, and shared a whole white snapper stir-fried with zesty tamarind sauce. I ate a stuffed Thai omelet with chicken, carrots, and tomatoes. I’ve also had more vegetable spring rolls with sweet chili sauce than I can count, and they too have been delectably different every time.
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White snapper in tamarind sauce
I’ve eaten crisp stir-fried pork with kale, chicken with ginger, mixed vegetables with seafood, squid with kale and oyster sauce and the spiciest curry catfish. I’ve had green curry, yellow curry, panang curry and my favourite: masaman curry with chicken, which unlike the distinctly coconut flavoured green and yellow curry, has a strong peanut flavour, minimal spice and potatoes.
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Stir fried vegetables with seafood
Another one of my favourite dishes here is the cashew nut chicken which comes with whole, sweet cashews. I absolutely love that everything comes with a lot of vegetables. It is not hard to eat healthy in Thailand.
I’ve had mango, mango lassi (a shake with yoghurt), coconut, banana, and dragon fruit shakes. The fruit here is more flavourful and less sweet than the fruit in North America. I’ve also had mangosteens, which taste like rockets candies, and longkong, which taste like the best parts of a grapefruit.
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Mangosteen
Finally, I’ve had Thai pancakes off street carts. These pancakes are more like crepes, and can be filled with anything ranging from cheese and tomatoes to bananas and Nutella. After sauteing the ingredients and putting them inside, the crepe is cut up into squares, and drizzled with cinnamon and sweet milk. Basically the best thing ever.
My list of must try foods grows almost daily, and I have not even tried half the options on the average Thai restaurant menu. The only department that Thailand could use some improvement in, is the alcohol department. Their beer is average at best, and Thai hard alcohol lags far behind imported alcohol, which makes up the majority of the options in any store.
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