Food Adventures
Where you could eat in Thailand
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Thai people love food. You can always find freshly made food 24 hours a day from a variety of eateries on every block. Here is an overview of the variety of food sources that you will find in Thailand.
like restaurants, have loyal customers. Because these street-side-cooks make the same 1-4 dishes every day, they are experts at that meal, sometimes jealously guard their technique and can make incredible food. Some of these carts stay permanently in one place, some move around from street to street. Many carts are pushed around the residential areas with the owner yelling or banging a distinct bell, horn or bamboo clapper to announce the food.
When I was growing up, the noodle cart on our street would come by with this sound of the bamboo sticks tapping. I knew, if I wanted noodles, I had better be ready at the door and yell when he came by. Where my sister lives now, there's an icecream cart that comes by and plays a song on their radio that causes the all the dogs in the neighborhood to howl.
If you were in Thailand five to ten years ago, you would see more food carts or kiosks filling the streets of Bangkok. With the traffic jams and sidewalks clogged up by these vendors and their customers, the government limited the push carts to certain areas on certain days. However, as long as there is demand, the carts will survive. Now it is sometimes a cat and mouse game with the police.
Food Carts
Push Carts: In Thailand, food carts, like restaurants, have loyal customers. Because these street-side-cooks make the same 1-4 dishes every day, they are experts at that meal, sometimes jealously guard their technique and can make incredible food. Some of these carts stay permanently in one place, some move around from street to street. Many carts are pushed around the residential areas with the owner yelling or banging a distinct bell, horn or bamboo clapper to announce the food.
When I was growing up, the noodle cart on our street would come by with this sound of the bamboo sticks tapping. I knew, if I wanted noodles, I had better be ready at the door and yell when he came by. Where my sister lives now, there's an icecream cart that comes by and plays a song on their radio that causes the all the dogs in the neighborhood to howl.
If you were in Thailand five to ten years ago, you would see more food carts or kiosks filling the streets of Bangkok. With the traffic jams and sidewalks clogged up by these vendors and their customers, the government limited the push carts to certain areas on certain days. However, as long as there is demand, the carts will survive. Now it is sometimes a cat and mouse game with the police.