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Sweets for my sweets hawkerfood (4)

If there is one stall you will find everywhere it must be the Thai Banana Roti or pancake on almost every corner, bridge, village and city. It is the ultimate favourite snack with many filling variations resembling French-style crepes. Believe me once your home this could be one of those comforting foods, you are craving because they are not easy to get lest to make at home without the art of flipping the roti paper-thin.

And honestly there has not been a visit where we didn’t at least have a few of these munching away. Without a doubt this is a popular sweetie anyone buys and she flicks whipping you to come back for another portion of Banana Roti.

: Generously pour coconut or condensed milk

: Cut up in small squares

: flipping it over, fry the other side

: adding filling, fold in a square

: Roti on to the hot griddle

: pulling and stretching the roti

: Slapping and pulling of the dough

: Thai Banana Roti stall

Thepprasit Night Market hawkerfood (3)

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