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.  I will add more
articles to this section as I find them, so check back every
few months
enjoy,
Doug Anderson |
