Bitter Melon Pineapple, Guava juice image will be added soon, run out of bitter melons 🙂
[recipe]
Bitter Melon Pineapple, Guava juice image will be added soon, run out of bitter melons 🙂
[recipe]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.