hawker food

Thepprasit Night Market hawkerfood (3)

October 21, 2012RongHua ChingFoodbugs, edible, hawker food, insects, Night Market, Pattaya, popular, snack food, street food, street snacks, Thepprasit

Thepprasit Night Market hawkerfood in Pattaya, is only open from Friday till Sunday starting from 17.00 till 23.00. Besides cheap products attracting a lot of shoppers local and tourists. it is also very popular for its wide variety of hawker food stalls at the night market. Serving food styles of the four regions all at one place. Here is just a small glimpse of regular hawkers food items.

: Thepprasit Night Market Hawker food

: Bbq chicken baked in earthenware vessel

: Barbecued Spareribs slabs

: Preparation Oyster Omelette

: Thepprasit Night Market variety of skewers

: Salt-crusted Tilapia, fish

: Tropical fruit Noi-na, Custard Apple

: barbecue fish varieties

: Golden grilled squid

: Thepprasit Night Market bug snacks nutritious bugs

: Typical local snack mealworm

: Thepprasit Night Market Popular local snack Grasshopper

Thailand night market and street stalls sells edible bugs as delicacy’s, how about deep fried grasshopper. I’ve been told they taste like shrimps or non mai’s a wood wurms these turn very crispy on the outside after being fried. There’s more to learn here in this link Popular Snack food in Thailand. These crunchy bug snacks are high in protein, calcium and cholesterol are actually very nutrious. For the daredevils among us who believe that entomophagy is the future, as in ‘How to cook edible insects’ a link with recipes to experiment.

Eating insects as an alternative protein source is growing in global demand. One of the reasons is research estimations that in the nearby future the world will have 10 billion people. They definitely will require more food, water and agricultural land for crops. But instead of increasing livestock edible insects taste absolutely delicious too. For sustainability purposes they are also significantly easier to farm as well as being very nutrituos with numerous health benefits. For the western menu it needs time to become a daily food item, but here in Thepparasit night market ediblle bugs ares a very popular snack, cheap, tasty and healthy.

More to discover in Pattaya:

Floating Market new attraction South of Pattaya.

Heritage at Pattaya Floating Market

Road stall hideaway hawker food (2)

October 5, 2012RongHua ChingFoodbraised pork knuckle, budget food, fresh fruit, hawker food, hawker stalls, Jomtien, Pattaya, smoothies, stir-fry dishes

On our previous holidays in Pattaya we would book family-suite hotel rooms/apartments located at Jomtien Beach road, where you couldn’t get passed this hawker food place. Easy to drop in for a quick bite, lunch or dinner, just great dishes with lots of taste on top of that these hawker stalls fit in any budget. Always jam-packed with tourists and locals, can’t go wrong with the stir-fried food in here, the dishes are prepared in woks literally dancing on fiery flames. Make no mistake, we have burned our lips more than once thinking it wasn’t that hot on more than chillies only.

The hawker food place in the pictures is the one where the 7-11 shop entrance is practically build inside this road stall, also recognizable with the salt-crusted barbecue fish on street-side display.

The Som Tam food stall is located at Dongtan Beach in White House, almost next door to Nongmaii Beach Cafe. This is also the only stall where I would order the Som Tam Puma, Papaya Salad with the local delicacy of salted black mini-crabs without having any after trouble. The trick of a good prepared Som Tam is besides fresh ingredients, the pounding and scraping without making it in a mush but just soft enough retaining a crunch with a tangy-sweet-hot dressing perfectly clinging on.

: braised pork knuckles

: Hawker Food stalls – Jomtien beach road

: Som Tom Stall

: Preparation Som Tom, Green Papaya Salad

Early bird hawker food (1)

September 29, 2012RongHua ChingFoodbudget food, food stalls, Gai Yang Gai, hawker food, quick, Som Tam, street food, tasty, thailand, Tropical fruit

On my list of favourite hawker food you will find the simple Thai Chicken Noodle Soup as mentioned in another blog post, followed closely by Som Tam, Thai Papaya Salad and Gai Yang Gai known as barbecue chicken. The last two items are often combined together for lunch as snack.

Thai hawker food – Gai Yang Gai

Early bird hawker food, every morning when we crossed the road to get a songtel ride for the beach, this food stall was grilling rows of Gai Yang Gai and before noon he would be sold out.

Gai Yang Gai – Thai barbecue chicken

Isn’t this just mouthwatering just by looking at it? Well smelling Thai rubbed spice chicken on the grill makes it even more tantalizing, such a shame we kept on missing out. We were either going for breakfast or coming back from the beach looking at an empty grill.

Som Tam Papaya salad

The slightly tart flavour of the young and green papaya combined with the heat of red chilli, saltiness of fish sauce and tamarind juice, with a little bit sweetness of palm sugar mixed all together is just gob-smacking good! Passing by one of these stalls I saw a pot filled with salted small black crabs, apparently that’s a popular local version, while I never tried the fried bugs I sure tried the black crab Papaya salad and if you like saltiness this is the one.

Tropical fresh fruit with full flavour

Fresh cut tropical fruits, explosion of taste and fruitiness and so many varieties to choose from it is just hard work :-). Here you can and should eat loads of Rambutan, Mangosteen or Jackfruit to name a few. These are hard to get in Europe and taste not even half as good when you have the chance to have them almost freshly plucked into your mouth.