From the streets in Asia Vol. 1: Food in Bangkok, Thailand
In this volume, we will report on the food in Bangkok, Thailand that we visited to attend the Asia Expert Meeting.
1. Crab curry
Perhaps you can call it a curry. It contained large pieces of crab (swimming crab?) and egg.
It was nice; sweet and spicy with a strong taste of crab and it went well with Thai rice. It stimulates your appetite and makes you eat a lot.
It is a crab curry. You can see big chunks of crab in it.
We poured it over the rice. It went very well with the Thai rice.
2.Thai suki
Although it is supposed to be Thai-style sukiyaki as its name suggests, but it looked more like shabu-shabu than sukiyaki.
The ingredients are meat, fish, fishcakes and a lot of vegetables.
You can enjoy the stimulating Thai taste when you eat the ingredients, after dipping them into a hot sauce with a lot of coriander leaves and chili. If you use a soy sauce based sauce, which is less spicy, it tastes almost like the Japanese yose-nabe. As noodles are added to the soup at the end, it is just like yose-nabe served at popular drinking places (izakaya) in Japan.
At a popular Thai suki chain restaurant called MK, many young people were enjoying the meal. In this restaurant, you can also enjoy the dance performance of the staff at regular hours.
Sorry, it’s almost finished. You can hardly see any ingredients now.
All the staff dances like this for two or three minutes during the performance time.
3.Tom yam koon
Tom yam koon is very popular also in Japan, but as you may expect, the authentic one is much spicier. We were told that local people eat the mushroom and shrimp, but do not eat the rest of the ingredients, because they are used only to add flavors to the soup.
4.Others
We also enjoyed eating huge squillas, prawns and oysters cooked with egg.
Huge squillas. You remove the shell before eating them.
Prawns. The prawn butter in the head tasted good.
Oysters cooked with egg. This dish had a Japanese taste.
This is a rambutan, a fruit with a very grotesque look like an egg covered with red hair.
When you peel it after making an incision with a knife, a milky white flesh that looks like a litchi appears. Contrary to how it looked, it tasted very sweet and nice.
It looked like this in the beginning.
This is how it looked after removing a half of the peel, making an incision with a knife.
Then, an egg-shaped milky white flesh came out.
How did you like it? Did you get interested in Thai food?
We will also give you a report from the next business trip destination.
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