Bangkok street food - a photographic journey

Back from our tour in Thailand, here some visual impression of the world's most famous street food as well as other food related impressions from Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and in any case a great city destination to travel to. This has not been our first tour to this great city and it certainly won't be our last one.

Ancient BBQ oven with wood fire in Bangkok's back alleys

Ensemble with woks, ready to fry fish, noodles or rice

Street food restaurant set up and ready for business, the worker is working hard to dish up some bowls of noodle soup

Food stand specialized to make the green papaya salad. All ingredients are mixed and crushed in the mortar that you can see in the back
Apple vendor took a lot of time to present his goods so beautifully, had to take a snap

Later in the night he will be lining up with hundreds of sellers to try and sell his fruits

Further down the street in Chinatown you can find those Chinese style sausages hung up in the entrance of a shop

Some Chinese style grilled and pressed chicken, yes that's still in Chinatown of course

These condiments / sauces are ready to "spice up: every street meal. As Thai food knows five taste that usually can be find in every dish (sour, sweet, salty, hot and bitter), there is usually a display of a minimum of four condiments that represent those flavors, such as vinegar or sliced chili pickled in vinegar, sugar, dried chili, fresh chile or hot paste, sometimes there is MSG, and fish sauce.

Street vendor frying off some noodles

This stand is making some fish BBQ

This street food stand is specialized in oysters. You can buy fresh oysters, grilled or fried oysters, spicy oysters, oysters pretty much every kind of style that you would like to have them.

Dessert stand with fried bananas

This stand is offering BBQ tofu, chicken and meat pieces

Minced pork with egg and dried noodles

"Nasi Campur" Thai style. This works like the Indonesian 'Nasi Campur' street food stand. You get a base dish of steamed rice and then you add food of your own choice. Here are some Thai style minced meat and chicken on top of the rice bed.

Fish ball noodle soup with condiments

Noodle with curry sauce

"Panang" curry fried rice

"Phad thai" fried noodles with condiments

Fried noodles with veggies

Marinated pork BBQ marinate with a spice mix that turns the color of the pork red. This dish actually originated in China / Canton but is now widely found in the Thai cuisine as well

Spicy beef noodle soup with a delicious, fully flavored, rich brown stock

"Tom Kha Kai", spicy coconut soup with chicken and veggies

Noodle soup "Tom Kha Kai" style

Tuna salad Thai style

Fried spicy noodle salad

Paypaya salad with tomatoes, peanuts and LOADS of chili. A refreshing and great tasting salad but nothing for you if you cannot stand the heat

Thai curry with steamed rice

BBQ'ed salted fish and other grilled specialties