Bangkok: from the floating market to the top restaurant
THE MECCA OF STREET FOOD
Some streets look like the aisles of an open-air restaurant where visitors can choose which stall to order food from. English is not guaranteed, but the menu is usually translated and there are Photographs in posts for easy finger pointing.
**Prices range from THB30 (€0.75) to THB80 (€2.25)** depending on the products and the area where the vendors are located.
Dishes prepared with noodles are the star of street food, prepared with different types of noodles accompanied with chicken or pork and prepared dry or with soup . Green papaya salads, barbecued meat or delicious desserts such as mango sticky rice, prepared with rice, coconut milk and fresh mangoes, are also popular.
A blow to Bangkok street food
One of the most popular places to try a snack is the Chinatown Yaowarat Street , known as the cradle of street food in the city . The tourist areas, as well as in the business area of Silom, Sathorn or Sukhumvit , many chain restaurants have flourished, but street vendors can also be found on the street corners at virtually any time of day.
Unfortunately the famous street Sukhumvit Soi 38 has recently disappeared, but some vendors continue to offer every day various local food options from six to midnight as they have been doing for four decades. On the corner of the same street, other alternatives have been opened, such as the garage Sutti Mansion where several positions operate in a group.
Farewell to Sukhumvit soi 38
INSIDE THE RESTAURANT
Bangkok also has a wide range of local and international food restaurants.
The unassuming local Pad Thai Thip Samai , located on Maha Chai Street, is known for preparing "the best pad thai in town" for using charcoal instead of gas to prepare this popular noodle-based dish rice with egg, fish sauce and tamarind , as well as different combinations of bean sprouts, dried shrimp, chicken or tofu.
The pad thai is Thailand's most famous culinary export since the 1940s when the prime minister decided the country needed a national dish. Later generations have made variations and today you can even find it prepared with brown sugar.
The queue at the restaurant starts when the stoves are turned on at five in the afternoon and the price for the plate of food is THB80 (€2).
Pad Thai, the must in the city
Among the most popular places to try Thai food is also ** Supanniga **, located in the sathorn street , which has an extensive menu of homemade food with recipes from the owner's grandmother , coastal hints and prized West Coast ingredients like dried shrimp, fresh vegetables and fruit. The price starts at 120 THB (3€).
Try the owner's (really) grandma's recipes
The restaurant ** Bo.lan ** of the Thong Lor street It is known for its different tasting menu of traditional Thai food prepared with local and organic products. The price starts at **THB680 (€17)** and the place has cocktails of passion fruit, watermelon or mango prepared with rum from La Sureña Phuket island.
Perfect tasting menu
The restaurant section of the commercial community W District , located a five-minute walk from the bus stop Phra Kanong Skytrain , is another of the well-known places in the city with a large courtyard surrounded by food and drink stalls for various budgets that attracts both Thais and foreign expats.
The stalls open every day at six in the evening and during the weekend you can enjoy live music. Among the options are from Indian, Japanese food and a corner of Spanish food: the tapas or paella of the stall Broken Eggs .
Nostalgics can also enjoy a pincho of **Spanish omelette for THB110 (€2.8)**, as well as chorizo pizzas or croquettes at the Spanish restaurant El Chiringuito, located on Soi Nana street in Chinatown.
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