The streets of Bangkok is dotted with many hawkers selling all sorts of food for those with an appetite for adventure. While noodles and rice dishes are mainly found in food courts and small restaurants, many hawkers offer bite size snacks at road side. From the more mainstream sausages to cold drinks to fried insects, you can find virtually anything.
Bacon Stick for 20 baht each
I noticed that many snacks choices consist of pork. There are pork sausage, bacon sticks, grilled fried pork, deep fried pork skin, roasted pork, ah, it was good for the pork lovers, maybe not exactly so great for health, however.
My favorite would be the bacon stick we had at the Chatuchak weekend market. For 20 baht (around RM2), you get mini sausages wrapped with bacon on a skewer. The union of sausage and bacon was a match made in heaven as the juice and slight saltiness from bacon compliments the texture and taste of the sausage oh so well. You have to try this if you manage to find the stall!
grilled pork strips on a ring
Grilled pork strips on bamboo string is a pretty common snack that can be found at many places. The meat is marinated and carries a pretty salty taste, while pretty good, eating too much of these will make you very thirsty.
deep fried pork skin
Another sinful snack would be this little bowls of deep fried pork skin that goes for 10 baht that we found at Chatuchak. These are very crispy and goes well with a little bit of Thai chili sauce. Now imagine having this with a cold beer watching your favorite football teams on a big LCD TV, with the air-cond full blast, and maybe a hot chick dancing on the side…
roasted pork (siu yok)
Roasted pork isn’t usually served on rice over here, you just have it as snacks to munch while walking around the weekend market. I guess we deserved it since we were getting enough exercise from walking under the searing hot April weather in Bangkok anyway, right?
colorful Popsicles
Then there’s the Popsicle stalls. The popsicles are actually made on location, usually with bottled fruit juice poured into a metal mold. A wooden stick is added as the handle. The mold is placed in a contraption consisting two parts, a top with little holes to hold the molds, and the bottom container filled with dried ice.
The seller often stirs the top part of the popsicle maker attempting to freeze the products faster. A stick costs something like 5 baht, and they were perfect for the weather.
fried mini banana (including the skin)
Other than the meat items, I also tried this curious little deep fried banana Terence bought. It was basically some species of mini banana sliced down in the middle, deep fried. While they look rather uninspiring, these things were actually very sweet and rather tasty. It is similar with our own “pisang goreng”, but sweeter and more concentrated.
Of course I enjoy every bit!
You can do a fair share of walking and eating in this city. Next up would be the various type of meals I had to sit down to eat. Stay tuned!
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By mIcheLLe on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
why you eat until like that :S HAHAAHAHAH I want the pork skin ahhhhhh
By David on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
OMG, KY sucking it hard on the lollipop I mean popsickles LOL *Mika’s song plays in b/g*
hahahahahhaha
By Yatz on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
wah..BEST!!
By kimberlycun on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
omg look at those siu yuk, man…
By KY on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
mIcheLLe,
Eat keropok and imagine looo.
David,
Why are you so weird, David? hehehe
Yatz,
Stim!
kimberlycun,
SLURPS
By Big Boys Oven on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
this must be the world best cuisine!
By aidan on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
oh no the grilled pork strips look itchy
By Simon Seow on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Wah, the pork skin should goes well with Hoegaarden White.
By twosuperheroes on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
the porky skin really looks like some keropok lekor from afar huh. Deceiving.. Bad bad. Haha.. :p
By KY on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Big Boys Oven,
Yah, good stuff!
aidan,
Itchy? What a way to describe!
Simon Seow,
Hahaha, no kidding!
twosuperheroes,
Memang like keropok. But keropok lekor is actually a bit different.
By Terenceg on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
seems i am in pain !! why ?
By amber on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
did you try their mango with chilli asam?
i love that when i went to Bangkok few years back. and seeign your post makes me crave for their mango with chilli asam. hahahaha!
By KY on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Terenceg,
Searing heat from the sun?
amber,
Oo, I didn’t. But I did have some awesome mango salad tho!
By Mei on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
photos of street food… worth 100 bucks.. photos of u guys consuming street food… PRICELESS :P:D
tooooo cool
By falcon on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Chan rak thai..can’t wait for the songkran pics!!
By Julia on Apr 14, 2008 | Reply
Ooooh! I wanna go i wanna go i wanna go!!! So much fun~
By KY on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
Mei,
Mastercard? hehehe
falcon,
Too bad I wasn’t there during songkran!
Julia,
Go! Do it!
By Precious Pea on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
Yum Yum Yum…i love the bacon with sausage too! Now i feel like going to Bangkok again.
By Foong on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
Wah, so much pork…cholesterol lo…
By immi on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
wah so many porcine delights! *drool*
just looking at the pix n reading bout it is enough to make my cholesterol level shoot thru the roof man.
By KY on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
Precious Pea,
That’s my favorite too!
Foong,
Hahaha, no doubt we can’t do this very often.
immi,
LOL!
By Bernsy on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
sei la, come back sure gain tons of weight… drink and eat like that.. wakakaka
By KY on Apr 15, 2008 | Reply
Bernsy,
But it’s all worth it!
By Dr. Carolyn on Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
OMG… the PORK SKIN!!!!
THE BACON!!!!!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!
I’m now sooooooooooo hungry
By vialentino on Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
got any sauce for the pork?
By adry azad on Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
the pork was goood ya?? but why no pictures of me.. why! why! .. oh forgot.. i don’t eat pork.. siennes
By Carrie/Ichigo on Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
Bangkok foods are very nice. Chatuchak has a lot of irresistible snacks. But i just hate Chatuchak cos i lost my wallet there…
By KY on Apr 16, 2008 | Reply
Dr. Carolyn,
I miss the bacon stick the most!
vialentino,
No sauce needed, eat straight!
adry azad,
No good to eat pork being a Muslim ok!
Carrie/Ichigo,
Yeah, you are right. Always have to be extra careful with personal belongings in unfamiliar places though.
By Genova on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
whoa…pork skin. looks real good
By KY on Apr 21, 2008 | Reply
Genova,
Pork skin is always good.
By jessT on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
omg he fried banana looks tempting
By KY on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply
jessT,
It was very sweet and juicy!