Street Eats in Bangkok.. pictures

Photo: Josef Polleross for The New York Times

Good Monday to you people. Starting this day off on a pleasant post in travel, we check our Bangkok, Thailand, a place that I had the pleasure to visit, and I must say that I really enjoyed the food. Joshua Kurlantzick moved to Bangkok years ago and this is part of what he had to say:

“Surrounded by groups of civil servants greedily slurping bowls of soup at Chote Chitr, a tiny, family-run restaurant in the older part of Bangkok, our table soon overflows like a Thai Thanksgiving. The yam makhua, a salad of grilled long eggplants topped with tiny dried shrimps, combines the tang of fresh shallots with expert charring. Prepared by the hand of a skilled griller, the vegetables retain a smoky crunch on the outside, but a first bite pierces the crackling char and reveals a juicy eggplant so sweet it resembles a ripe peach, full of lime juice and fish sauce that has soaked into the flesh.”

The article link is within the gallery, from nytimes.com - Street Eats in Bangkok

Photo: Josef Polleross for The New York Times - Ggaeng som soup at Chote Chitr. The soup is flavored with tamarind and palm sugar, packed with chunks of coarsely chopped cauliflower and large, meaty shrimp, their fat melting into the hot broth. Native to southern Thailand, where cooks use the abundant local seafood, gaeng som has a dense mouth feel, because the chef has added finely ground fish flesh into the stock, thickening it like roux. ( this is good stuff)