What to Eat for Breakfast in Thailand?
What to Eat for Breakfast in Thailand?
Actually, this is Southern Thailand - so the foods are available here - but possibly you’ll really have to look for them in exactly this form in Northeast or Northern Thailand. Bangkok should have these readily available.
What to eat for Breakfast in Southern Thailand?
Finding the right food to eat when you’re visiting Thailand can be a tricky thing because depending where you are in the country, the foods available vary.
Being in Surat Thani and Ubon Ratchathani for a couple of years I chose to eat Gwit Diao (gwit-dee-aow) in the mornings since I could find a lot of places that had it and it was cheap. Gwit diao is a soup with rice noodles, garlic, pickled radish, chicken or pork, bamboo sprouts or pak boong (morning glory). It’s basically chicken soup. I would order extra vegetables - pak pee-set because I like to eat a log of vegetables in the morning.
Coming down south I was able to find the usual gwit diao - but the price went up by 5 to 10 baht. Might not seem like much, but where you’re on as limited a budget as I am then 5 or 10 baht for each person for each breakfast quickly adds up to 600 baht per month ($18) extra per month. I know most of you are laughing, but this is how frugal I’ve become.
SO - in the south one could find gwit diao for anywhere from 25 to 35 baht per bowl and 40 baht if you get the special seafood version with shrimp and squid.
We have neighbors here that we like and we brought them over some spaghetti one time. My wife, Joy, makes it in a rice cooker. One rice cooker and she makes the best spaghetti sauce! Anyway, we brought some over to the neighbors to try. They in turn, in a couple of days, brought us back a fish curry meal with noodles and vegetables that was AWESOME.
So, recently I found this meal at a roadside stand for just 10 baht! For 10 baht I get a bag full of vegetables and a cup of cooked rice noodles. I always order 2 since they’re so cheap - and now I’m the happiest farang eating my healthy (I hope) vegetable filled breakfast.
There are usually a handful of bean sprouts, a half a handful of green beans, some mango tree leaves (too bitter for me), some cooked jackfruit pieces that smell awesome, and some other type of bean that is salty. The mix of vegetables changes everyday because they sometimes add whatever they have around… fava beans, pak boong, or a couple other varieties of stringy greens that I have no idea the name for.
The fish curry is so delicious… it is ground fish - and has just a little bit of texture to it. It’s lightly salted and Joy told me they use coconut milk in it. It’s VERY good stuff.
So, this is one good thing you could try for breakfast. Thai people eat just about anything for breakfast - there is no mindset like they need to just one thing or one type of thing for breakfast.
When I take her to work, Joy tells me to stop at one of two places… a boiled rice (kow tom moo) soup stand or a fried chicken and sticky rice stand! Yeah, this is her breakfast! Not all that healthy because few vegetables, so if you write her a comment let her know she really should be more careful with her diet and eat more vegetables and fruits. She doesn’t know I’m writing this post for her blog today - so she’ll wonder how you knew what she ate for breakfast!
Ok - that’s my breakfast post - I’ll be writing a lot more here since it’s one of our most popular blogs but Joy doesn’t have time to write here since she’s working almost everyday. 
Come to Thailand if you get a chance!
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Top 5 Strange Thai Foods!
Top 5 Strange Thai Foods!
Most people think Thai food is very healthy because in one menu you will get all kinds of food nutrients, vitamins from vegetables, protein and carbohydrate from meat and rice.
If I ever thought about the unhealthiest or strangest foods we have here, I would think of these five and that they are also Thais’ favorites.
The first food that came up in my mind is Laab Luead, bloody pork sour and spicy salad. Uhh… I don’t want to imagine its picture in my head but I really have to tell you what it is like. This recipe came from either Laos or Thailand, and I’m sorry I’m not sure which one! I am never really sure. My father and my grandma loved this food. The pork in this dish is uncooked and dressed with fresh pig’s blood…
Eventually our government announced the campaign telling Isaan people to stop eating it uncooked. We cook the pork, but still dress it with fresh blood.
(uhh.. next,.. please..)
Goong Dten or dancing shrimps, I admitted that I used to have this one when I was young. My brother loves it too. However when I grew up, I feel too sad eating them alive, I stopped.
The shrimps were from fresh water and from the rice fields which are not really clean if we eat them uncooked. Later my mom changed the recipe. She made omelets with small shrimps from fresh water. That’s better.
Next is the super expensive ants’ eggs which won the third spot in my top five unhealthiest Thai food. Half of a handful costs 20 Baht (about 70 cents usd.). We have to buy about 200 Baht to get enough for making one pot of Isaan style soup. Some people eat them raw (uncooked) by themselves (the queen ants). I already tried that. The taste, when it was uncooked, was not pleasant. I like it cooked in the soup or omelet better.
My mom used to take me and my brother for ants’ eggs hunting. I went with mom, even though I never really liked any kind of physical activity at all (I think we call that lazy.. :p haha). Big red ants live in mango trees in a nest, sometimes on the very top. We need a basket tied with a long stick and a bucket full of water. We poke the ant nest until the eggs fall into the basket. When we bring it down to the ground it’s covered with angry red ants. We put the whole basket into a large bucket of water and the eggs sink down to the bottom and the ants float on top. We get rid of the ants so their army will not kill us. It’s sad, but kind of fun too.
If you get to see any dance show from Isaan, you will see a dance that was created to show brushing the ants off our arms as we hunt for the ant eggs!
Cab Moo or fried pork skin, first choice when we order Somtam (Papaya Spicy Salad). There are two type of Cab Moo, non-fat Cab Moo and most-fat Cab Moo. I will tell you now the most-fat type tasted better. 
However, the best quality and most expensive is the one without fat.
OTOP (One Tumbon One Product) in some provinces have made it the best seller or five stars product from their area. You can see how much we love this food.
Next unhealthy food is salted red egg yolk from duck. There are very high calories and cholesterol in these eggs. In Thailand, there is one type of restaurant influenced by Chinese culture. I don’t know whether people in China have the same type of restaurant, I have never been there.
Anyway, they sell one cup of boiled plain rice for 5 Baht and serve it with many kinds of food, mostly have salty taste and some are sour and spicy. They mix spicy and sour salad then dress over top of salted red eggs, call Yum Kai Dang.
Can you suggest more of unhealthy food you can get in Thailand?
Thai Food Recipe: Bamboo Salad!
Bamboo Salad ซุปหน่อไม้
Bamboo Salad
ซุปหน่อไม้
Soup No Mai
Prepare:
2 cups boiled and scraped Bamboo
1 cup Bai Ya Nang (Look at my post here to see what kind of green leaves I use)
http://trythaifood.thaipulse.com/2007/01/thai-isaan-food-recipe-ho-mok-gai-sai.html
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. Pla rah (fermented fish sauce)
1 tbsp. roasted sesame (then ground it finely, blow out the burnt dust)
2 tbsp. Khao Bue-ah (soaked uncooked rice)
1 tsp. dried chili pepper powder
2 tbsp. mints
2 tbsp. Sliced red onion
1 tbsp. chili peppers (ground)
2 tbsp. Sliced coriander
2 tbsp. Sliced scallion
1 tbsp. Sliced parsley
Cooking Instructions:
1. Boil the bamboo and scraped it with fork. Cut it short about 10cm.
2. Finely ground Khao Bue-ah with Bai Ya nang. Add 1 cup of water and squeeze until you get green juice.
3. Wash scraped bamboo again with clean water and place into the pot.
4. Add green juice, salt, pla rah juice and chili pepper. Boil it with medium heat until it’s boiling.
5. After that, turn off the fire and wait until it’s cool off.
6. Next, add coriander, scallion, parsley, sliced red onion and dried chili peppers. Mix well.
The juice in this recipe should be a little thick and should not be too much.
Top with roasted sesame and mints. Serve with sticky rice and eat under the big tree by the rice fields.
Hehe can you imagine that picture?? That’s what we do… ;P
Thai Dessert: Steamed Banana (Kanom Gluay)
Kanom Gluay (Steamed Banana)
Khanom Gluay ( Steamed Banana)
Prepare:
2 cups rice flour
1 and 1/2 cup tapioca flour
1 cup scraped young coconut
2 and 1/2 cup coconut milk
2 cups mashed apple banana (1kilogram)
2 cups sugar
2 tsp. salt
Topping:
3 cups scraped old coconut
1 tsp. salt
Banana leaves
Cooking Instructions:
1. Mix the two kinds of flour altogether. Gradually add coconut milk and sugar while you knead it.
2. Then, add 2 tsp. of salt and mashed apple banana. Knead it very well.
3. Prepare topping by mixing scraped old coconut with 1 tsp. salt.
4. Cut banana leaves in oval shape 7×21cm. and 6×8cm.
5. Place the smaller on top. Put the mix in the middle of the leaves follow by scraped old coconut.
6. Wrap it nicely and attach it with toothpick.
7. Steam it in boiling water and use maximum heat for 15 minutes.
If you don’t like to wrap it with banana leaves, you can pour the mix in a metal tray and steam it for 15 minutes.
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