Mmmmm, Smell that Thai Food!Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of visiting Thailand will no doubt have fond memories of the wonderful smells of Thai food from the streetside vendors... roast chicken, fried fish, barbecued squid, fried cockroaches and giant waterbugs... OK, so maybe the fried insects are not exactly your first choice. Of course, chillis are used in almost everything. One time, my wife and I were walking down a street in Bangkok and went past a bakery.... mmmm, great smells of fresh baking. We went inside and bought a couple of muffins that had just come out of the oven. Oops, chillis inside. First time I ever had a chilli muffin. Last time, too. Here are a few photographs taken by my wife, Joan Anderson, as she walked around the streets of Bangkok in early 2005. In 1988, during my first trip to Bangkok, I saw chicken-flavoured and shrimp-flavoured ice cream, but I haven't seen those flavours lately. Now that Seven-11 is everywhere, independent ice cream vendors have disappeared. You can easily find corn-flavoured yoghurt, though; it is everywhere, which I presume means it is quite popular. As in North America, Seven-11 sells hot dogs, packaged sandwiches, and instant dinners. Although the dinners are small, they seem to be popular with both farangs and Thais. In North America, we have soap-on-a-rope. In Thailand, we have fish-on-a-stick. If I had to pick one photograph (out of the hundreds that we have taken) to symbolize Bangkok, it wouldn't be a picture of the Grand Palace nor any wat, it would be the final one shown below. The beautiful smiling Thai girl selling Thai food; to me, that is what Bangkok is all about.  In this part of my web site I have collected several articles
about cooking Thai food and simply enjoying Thai food. I hope
you will find these interesting and informative. enjoy, Doug Anderson |
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