Transcript street side cuisine 958 Kb 03/11/14

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Street Side Cuisine
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Miss Jantana Khamanukul
Street Side Cuisine
First, it should be noted that there are many names
given for street side cuisine such as street food, hawker
food, cart food, and many other names. Thai street food
vendors (sellers) are the people who sell street side cuisine
(also called street food). In addition to food enjoyed at
restaurants and perhaps more comfortable arrangements, a
big part of Thai tradition past and present is the street food
vendor. Many Thai specialties can be obtained from the
street vendor and in some cases the quality is superior and
almost always cheaper. The street food vendor has been
around for generations and generations of
Thais and originally most street vendors carried their
goods around in rattan baskets attached to a piece of
wood that was placed across their shoulders with each
basket tied to the wood aside the right and left shoulder.
t makes logical sense that the first street vendor first
appeared over a hundred years ago when Thailand’s
economic development expanded beyond a market
culture where people would gather at their local market
to exchange goods. With this expansion and success,
Thai entrepreneurs would take all of their cooking
utensils and ingredients to the market with them,
shopping on the way there and back to offer to serve
customers interested in their individual culinary creations.
With the creation of the bicycle, motorcycle, automobiles,
and other modern technologies, the method of selling
street food has slowly changed. However, there are still a
great number of street vendors that still ply their trade on
foot with the traditional wooden baskets. It is common to
see them in big cities, small towns, beaches, villages, the
countryside, and virtually anywhere that people are
looking for something to eat
A street vendor usually has the ability to move his
location at any time. The seller may have a cart attached
to a bicycle or a motorbike, but in some cases the seller is
stationary. However, it is important to know that many
street vendors can. Be quite territorial and they will often
sell food at the same spots every day. More often than not,
you can find what you are looking for. Despite some
predictability, there are a number of vendors that move
around and you really have to look for them in order to
get what you are craving.
It has been said that you have not had a true Thai eating
experience until you have sampled some street food, The
most difficult part for a tourist is to identify the different
foods on the street. This is made more difficult because
most street vendors speak little or no English. It the tourist
can memorize a few simple phrases it might make it easier
for them to jump in and give it a try. To make it a little
easier, the food can be broken down into 5 types, main
dishes, noodles, snacks, and drinks. In each of these
groups there are a vast number of choices.
Listed below are some popular dishes for thais and
tourists alike. Of course, there are too many popular dishes to
list here.
Some common choices:
Main Dishes
Joak a Chinese rice dish made with a thick creamy
rice mixture and ground pork balls.
Som Tam for those who want to try something spicy,
a hot salad made from fresh sliced Papaya with limes and
chilis.
Khao Phat fried rice with a choice of meats,
vegetables, or seafood.
PhadThai the famous fried noodle dish made
with eggs, bean sprouts, dried shrimps, garlic, and chili
powder
Yam a spicy salad
Made with lime juice, chilies, onions, various
vegetables, and your choice of meat
Noodles
Kuay-tiao Raat Naa a stir fried noodle dish
topped with thick gravy with vegetables and a choice of
meat
Ba Mii Naam an egg noodle soup made with
wontons and strips of red pork
crab meat
Snacks Yang BBQ beef, chicken, or pork served
with sticky rice
Pa Thong Ko these are usually shaped like sticks
attached together together and they are much like a donut
Desserts
Tako a tasty coconut custard like dessert
presented in a round banana leaf and layered with a salty
layer on the bottom and a sweet coconut layer on the top
Khao Niaw Moon a thai specialty, this is
sticky rice sweetened with coconut milk. It is
often combined with ripe mangoes and other
fruits to make a delicious dessert
Roti a dessert dish made like a French
crepe or pancke and topped with your choice of
fruit, candy, or other toppings
Drinks
Naam aoy very sweet drink made with
water and sugarcane
Naam pan a fruit shake made from a
variety of fruits like bananas, coconuts, mangoes,
and a number of other choices
Chaa yen very sweet Thai iced tea mixed
with condensed milk and sugar
It is not certain why Thai street vendors still exist in
such abundance all over the kingdom. However, it is
often said by local Thais that it is not possible to get
certain dishes with the same quality as can be found at
the local street vendor. And there are also some dishes
are difficult or impossible to find at any restaurant in the
area. In addition, Thai people tend to enjoy eating or
snacking all day long, and the street vendor is a much
more convenient way to pick up a snack then any
restaurant, convenience store, or stationary market has
ever been.Thai people tend to enjoy eating or
snacking all day long, and the street vendor is a much
more convenient way to pick up a snack then any
restaurant, convenience store, or stationary market has
ever been. With that being said, it is unknown if street
vendor will continue to survive in the future, but
tradition and millions of hungry Thais should control
the destiny of this uniquely Thai experience.
Joak
Roti
Naam aoy
PhadThai
papaya salad
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