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Thai Som Tam Recipe for a Classic Thai Green Papaya Salad. Thai Street Food Recipes. Copyright 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

10 Thai Street Food Recipes to Cook at Home That Are Not Pad Thai to Take You Back to Bangkok

These 10 Thai street food recipes to cook at home that are not pad Thai will make you some of the most popular Thai street food dishes with locals. We’ve got recipes for pad kra pao and rad na, som tam and yam khai dao, kai jiew and khao mok gai, and more to transport you right back to Bangkok. 

I was motivated to compile this collection of Thai street food recipes that you can make at home that aren’t pad Thai, simply by the fact that we have been desperately missing tucking into street food in Thailand on the roadside, at markets and in old-school eateries. So we’re guessing some of our readers are, too.

And the kind of Thai street food we most miss are the dishes that Thai locals love, from Thailand’s national dish, pad kra pao, stir fried pork and holy basil with fried egg, to rad na gai recipe, charred rice noodles with chicken and gravy, a dish that we serendipitously discovered at a stall outside a 7-Eleven many years ago – after decades cooking and eating Thai food.

We can’t get good Thai street food or even Thai restaurant food in Siem Reap – nor would we expect to – so when we’re craving kai jiew or khao mok gai or khao soi gai we cook these Thai street food recipes at home. As Terence has three nights in the last week.

Another reason I wanted to share these was because all too-often I see Thai street food recipes on popular recipe sites and food blogs that are dumbed down for foreign tastes. Many don’t even include Thai fish sauce or shrimp paste, two ingredients which help give Thai food its distinctive taste.

One recipe I spotted for pad Thai yesterday used vermicelli noodles (not rice stick) and didn’t include tamarind – an essential ingredient – but used vinegar instead. Pickled chillies in vinegar is a fab condiment to douse on before eating, but tamarind and vinegar are not the same.

The recipe should have been called ā€˜Thai-inspired noodles’ or ā€˜Thai-American pad Thai noodles’. Because names matter. The poor people who cook that pale resemblance of pad Thai will be travelling to Thailand with the wrong expectations.

So why haven’t I included a pad Thai recipe? Thais do eat pad Thai, even if they perhaps don’t eat it as often as they tuck into pad kra pao. Because we wanted you to try some Thai street food specialties you may not have cooked before. Plus, I’ll soon be sharing a pad Thai recipe from one of Bangkok’s best chefs. You can cook pad Thai then.

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Now let me tell you about these Thai street food recipes.

Thai Street Food Recipes to Cook at Home That Are Not Pad Thai

Thai Pad Kra Pao Recipe for Stir Fried Ground Pork and Holy Basil with Fried Egg

This Thai pad kra pao recipe for stir fried pork and holy basil with fried egg is a breakfast staple of street food stalls all over Thailand and it’s one of our favourite Thai street food recipes.

A garlic and chilli paste is mixed with pork mince and a rich sauce before being served with fragrant and refreshing Thai holy basil and a fried egg. To top it off, a classic Thai condiment, prik nam pla, further enhances the flavour of this popular Thai street food dish when served with steamed jasmine rice.

This Thai pad kra pao recipe is very versatile. Thai holy basil is essential – that’s the ā€˜kra pao’ in the title, also written as ā€˜kra pow’ and ā€˜gaphrao’, while ā€˜pad’ or ā€˜phat’ is ā€˜stir-fried’ – however, you could easily use ground beef or chicken mince, and you can crank up the heat if you like things hot or serve a more gently spiced stir-fry if you prefer.

A Thai food favourite with locals and foreigners alike, our Thai pad kra pao recipe for stir fried pork and holy basil with fried egg is part of our Weekend Eggs series on recipes for quintessential eggs dishes from around the world,

Thai Pad Kra Pao Recipe for Stir Fried Ground Pork and Holy Basil with Fried Egg

Thai Rad Na Gai Recipe for Charred Rice Noodles with Chicken and Gravy

This Thai rad na gai recipe is another of my favourite Thai street food recipes. It makes charred rice noodles with chicken and gravy makes a Thai-Chinese street food dish that, like pad kra pao, is another dish more popular with Thais than the more famous pad Thai, especially in Bangkok.

This recipe for Thai rad na gai – also spelt raat nar gai, laat nar gai, and lad na gai – makes smoky stir-fried rice noodles that are topped with stir-fried chicken and gravy; ā€˜rad na’ means ‘on top’ and ā€˜gai’ means ‘chicken’ – and while we’re using chicken in this case, this dish can also be made with pork or beef.

Make sure to use a seasoned carbon steel wok for charring the noodles. If the noodles start to stick, do splash a little cooking oil into the wok. I find that fresh rice noodles stick more to the wok than reconstituted dried noodles.

It’s often easier to just throw the separated fresh noodles into the wok and give them a quick stir-fry than charring them, but please try the way the recipe calls for first, especially if using dried noodles.

Thai Rad Na Gai Recipe for Charred Rice Noodles with Chicken and Gravy

 

Classic Thai Omelette Recipe for Kai Jiew, a Crispy Puffy Golden-Brown Omelette

This Thai omelette recipe makes kai jiew, a crispy, puffy golden-brown Thai omelette cooked in plenty of vegetable oil in a very hot wok. It’s one of the best Thai street food recipes if you want to be transported back to the streets of Bangkok.

Spelt as kai jiaw, kai jiew, kai jeow, khai jiow, and khai jiao, these puffy Thai omelettes are different to the other style of omelette you’ll spot on your travels in Thailand and Cambodia, which are flat, thin, solid, and also golden-brown.

To make kai jiew, the eggs are fortified by a good dash of fish sauce and the omelette is served on steamed jasmine rice with some Thai Sriracha sauce to spice things up.

It’s a spectacular dish to make. When poured into the hot oil, the whisked eggs with fish sauce form bubbles that grow and the omelette puffs right up like a crazy magic trick, before settling down as it cooks into a thick, soft, fluffy golden-brown omelette.

It takes real confidence in your kitchen skills to stay calm while flipping this omelette over! To that point, please wear closed footwear and wear a kitchen apron. A round bottomed wok is best for making this dish as you need to get under the omelette with a wide mesh skimmer.

Classic Thai Omelette Recipe for Kai Jiew, a Crispy Puffy Golden-Brown Omelette

 

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad

This Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao makes one of my all-time favourite Thai street food recipes. It makes a filling salad of crispy fried eggs with sweet tomatoes, purple shallots, crunchy peanuts, fragrant coriander, Chinese celery, and chillies, with a salad dressing that’s all at once sweet, sour, tangy, and funky.

Sweet juicy tomatoes, aromatic coriander, crunchiness coming from the purple shallots, roasted peanuts and Chinese celery stems, a hit of heat from the chillies, crispy fried eggs that soak up a salad dressing that’s sour, sweet, tangy, and funky… this Thai fried egg salad is so simple yet so delicious and it’s absolutely addictive.  

A Thai ā€˜yam’ – also written as ā€˜yum’ – is a kind of salad that is comparable to a tossed salad. The Thai word ā€˜yam’ in fact doesn’t mean salad as such, but means to mix, toss or combine together. In contrast to a salad such as som tam, which is pounded, the salad ingredients are combined in a mixing bowl and plated.

ā€˜Khai dao’ in Thai means ā€˜fried egg’, but quite literally ā€˜star egg’, and it’s a Thai style of fried egg, which means its deep-fried or fried in a lot of oil so that the egg has a crispy texture and is brown coloured.

As with salads in Cambodia and Vietnam, this style of Thai salad is all about the combination of textures and flavour, as much as vibrancy and aroma. The salad ingredients need to be super fresh, fragrant and vibrant and the dressing needs to be intensely flavoured, like a good dipping sauce.  

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad

 

Thai Miang Kham Recipe for The Bite Sized Wraps That Are Thailand in a Mouthful

This Thai miang kham recipe makes the bite-sized wraps that are Thailand in a mouthful, an explosion of quintessential Southeast Asian flavours – sour lime, zingy ginger, crunchy peanuts, crispy shallots, smoky roasted coconut, savoury dried prawns, a kick of chilli, and a sweet yet funky caramelised sauce – wrapped in a wild piper or wild betel leaf.

This easy Thai miang kham recipe will make you the kind of miang kham that you can buy from a vendor at a local market – miang kham is a street food snack after all – pre-packaged from a gourmet supermarket or as an appetiser at a casual Thai restaurant or upmarket cafĆ©.

It won’t make you the luxurious takes on miang kham topped with sweet lobster or plump prawns, salmon roe that bursts in your mouth, or even velvety foie gras, which you’ll find at fancy fine dining restaurants in Bangkok, but it is very versatile.

You’ll need a granite mortar and pestle to pound some of the ingredients to form a paste, and then need to add that to the dissolved palm sugar in the sauce pot, then add the toasted coconut, Thai fish sauce and tamarind water/juice.

Don’t simmer the sauce for too long, as it will thicken too much and harden when it’s cool. While the sauce is cooling, you can prep your ā€˜salad’ ingredients, ensuring everything is evenly diced into fine cubes – except the chillies, which should be de-seeded and finely chopped. Wear gloves when handling the chillies.

Thai Miang Kham Recipe for The Bite Sized Wraps That Are Thailand in a Mouthful

 

Classic Thai Som Tam Recipe for a Thai Green Papaya Salad

This classic Thai som tam recipe makes the popular Thai green papaya salad that you’ll eat on the streets of Thailand and this is easily another of my favourite Thai street food recipes, and it’s one that I’ve adapted from David Thompson’s Thai Street Food.

The spicy salad originated in Thailand’s Isaan region – Isaan and Isan mean ‘northeast’ in Thai and Khmer – a region that was historically part of the Khmer Empire. But now you’ll find this Thai street food favourite all over Thailand, and right across northern Southeast Asia.

Here in Cambodia, green papaya salad is called bok lahong, and there are all manner of pounded salads here which are very old, such as bok svay, a pounded mango salad. They’re called ā€˜boks’ in Khmer. ā€˜Bok’ and ā€˜pok’ are ancient Khmer words that mean to smash or beat against something.

You will need an enormous mortar and pestle to do your pounding, smashing and beating in. I’ve seen som tam cooks use both wooden mortar and pestles and terracotta or clay mortar and pestles. We use a wooden mortar and pestle as we haven’t found a clay mortar and pestle that is large enough.

As this is a Thai som tam recipe, we suggest using a good quality Thai fish sauce. We recommend Thailand’s Megachef for the quality as much as the consistency, especially when it comes to sodium levels. You can buy palm sugar online, or use brown sugar, coconut sugar, raw or white sugar.

Classic Thai Som Tam Recipe for a Thai Green Papaya Salad Plus Tips for Jazzing Up Your Som Tam

Tasty Thai Larb Gai Recipe for a Spicy Minced Chicken Salad from Thailand

This is another of our favourite Thai street food recipes and it’s an easy recipe for a classic Thai larb gai or ground chicken salad – gai or kai is chicken in Thai and laab, also written as laab, laap, larp, lap, and lab are the Thai, Lao and Khmer names for this type of minced meat salad that’s found right across northern Southeast Asia.

Made with minced chicken breast that’s quickly stir-fried in chicken stock, fish sauce, lime juice, salt, sugar, garlic, and shallots, this light Thai ground chicken salad is combined with loads of fresh fragrant herbs and sprinkled with chilli flakes.

Served with crunchy vegetables such as cabbage, cucumbers, and snake beans, and eaten with steamed jasmine rice or sticky rice, it’s super easy to cook, comes together in minutes, is very versatile, and is incredibly delicious.

Make sure to sprinkle on some toasted rice, either toasted rice powder or ground roasted rice called khao khua in Thai. Be generous with the fresh fragrant herbs and serve plenty of crunchy vegetables on the side, such as cucumbers, green beans, and cabbage, which can be used as a vehicle for eating the salad.

Tasty Thai Larb Gai Recipe for a Spicy Minced Chicken Salad from Thailand

 

Southern Thai Chicken and Rice Recipe for Khao Mok Gai, a Thai Style ‘Biryani’

Our easy Southern Thai chicken and rice recipe makes the incredibly delicious khao mok gai – ā€˜khao’ means rice, ā€˜gai’ is chicken, and ā€˜mok’ means to bury underneath or within in modern Thai – for braised chicken cooked in a spicy curry-like gravy and served with turmeric rice and crispy fried shallots.

Interestingly, ā€˜khmok’ is also an old Khmer word that means to cook within banana leaves, which is how this dish was probably once cooked, and to find out more about that you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook.

Depending on where you eat this addictive Thai-Malay street food favourite, it might come garnished with crunchy cucumber slices or spears, and fresh mint, coriander and chillies, or might be served with a fragrant relish or sauce of pounded herbs and cucumber – and/or sweet chilli sauce.

As a Thai Muslim dish, it’s typically referred to as a Thai biryani or Thai style biryani, but it’s important to note that this is not the style of biryani you might be familiar with from the Indian Sub-Continent or Middle East, where we ate biryanis weekly for seven years and they were never like this. Hence “Thai-style”.

Easy Southern Thai Chicken and Rice Recipe for Khao Mok Gai, a Thai Style ‘Biryani’

 

Khao Soi Gai Recipe for Chiang Mai Curry Noodle Chicken Soup 

This khao soi gai recipe makes the delicious Chiang Mai curry noodle chicken soup that must be as beloved by foreign visitors as locals in the Northern Thailand city.

It’s the most popular noodle soup in Chiang Mai, the old capital of the Lanna kingdom in Northern Thailand, that’s as famous for its fantastic Northern Thai-style Lanna food as much as its gilded pagodas, gorgeous handicrafts and glorious mountains nearby.

Khao soi gai is a one-bowl meal of egg noodles, a rich, oily coconut cream-infused stock, and a leg or thigh of bone-in chicken (‘gai’ is Thai for chicken) topped with more crunchy noodles.

The spicy curry noodle chicken soup is a lunchtime favourite across Chiang Mai, slurped at market stalls, simple eateries and fancy restaurants. It’s one of those dishes that culinary travellers are eager to try, and then can’t stop eating. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself carving out a khao soi itinerary for yourself.

Khao Soi Gai Recipe – How to Make Chiang Mai Curry Noodle Chicken SoupĀ 

 

Thai Mango Sticky Rice Recipe

This Thai mango sticky rice recipe is another recipe that I’ve adapted by chef David Thompson from his Thai Street Food cookbook and it makes the much-loved Thai dessert kao niaw mamuang.

Despite the detailed recipe notes it’s nowhere near as intimidating as it looks and this jasmine scented sweet will take you back to eating on the streets of Thailand.

Making this became my mission after the mango rains started a couple of years ago and I had been ogling the green mangoes that hung from the towering mango trees in our Siem Reap neighbourhood.

One of the reasons I delayed making this recipe for so many years was because I couldn’t find yellow mung beans (essential to the recipe to add a little crunch), nor fresh jasmine flowers to perfume the rice (desirable).

When I eventually found the beans, they didn’t brown and were a little crisp rather than crunchy. But this mango sticky rice still transported me back to the streets of Thailand, as it does every time I make it. Don’t you love that about food?

This Thai Mango Sticky Rice Recipe by Chef David Thompson Is Not As Intimidating As It Looks

Please do let us know in the comments below if you make any of these Thai street food recipes as we’d love to know how they turn out for you.

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

If you’re looking for tips to visiting Angkor, Siem Reap and Cambodia, just ask us a question in the comments below or check Grantourismo as we’ve got loads of info on our site. Click through to the link in the bio and explore our Cambodia guide or search for ā€˜Angkor’. 

And please do let us know if you’re coming to Siem Reap. We’d love to see you here x

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

Recipe here (and proper link to Grantourismo in our bio): https://grantourismotravels.com/soy-ginger-chicken-recipe/

If you cook it and enjoy it please let us know — we love to hear from you — either here or in the comments at the end of the recipe on the site or share a pic with us x 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bĆŗn chįŗ£, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bĆŗn chįŗ£. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bĆŗn chįŗ£ recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bĆŗn chįŗ£ meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bĆŗn thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bĆŗn bò Nam Bį»™ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bį»™=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs.Ā 

XĆ­u mįŗ”i= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bĆŗn chįŗ£ patties. XĆ­u mįŗ”i remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bĆ”nh tįŗ±m xĆ­u mįŗ”i. BĆ”nh tįŗ±m=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bĆŗn chįŗ£ giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to ā€œpartnerā€ with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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