During our trip we have been trying to sample as much of the local cuisine as possible. So far, we have not had dinner at the same place twice yet and are successfully adhering to a no hamburger rule. Our theory is that we can eat hamburgers (etc) back home, so we are not going to eat them here.
Some of the delicacies we have enjoyed:
This was a brilliant dish, simple & tastes amazing. Karaage chicken with egg chiffon & curry sauce.
Mixed beef and noodles, a reasonably plain name for a good dish. This is from a food hall in a shopping center. The food hall setup at this center involved buying vouchers to give to the vendors in exchange for food, presumably to avoid them handling money.
Some of the food preparation techniques are quite different to what happens at home. Above is uncooked meat sitting uncovered. You could ordered your food and sneeze on it. Some of the roadside sellers have food similarily exposed only a meter or two from traffic.
Hungarian Breakfast, from downtown Bangkok. Goes for about $2 Australian. We've had breakfast at a few different places, the bacon you get for breakfast always looks like the above, they do not have the large oval shaped section.
On the 2nd day of the conference, lunch was delivered to us. Takeaway Bangkok style is done via plastic bags - it was a bit of a suprise! It is quite an efficient solution from a waste point of view. The little bag is a chili sauce, and the red/green sachet contains dried chilli and salt.
There are a whole family of items here that look very familiar but are not quite the same. Above, Lipton Ice Tea and Coke Zero. Streets ice creams are sold as Walls here. There is enough places around if you want to live on pizza, hamburgers and the like. Subway, KFC, McDonalds et al all have a presence.
Haven't been brave enough to try this..
