The markets near our pad sell curries and rice and all sorts of delicious things in bags for ~25 baht, under $1.00. And although you may not be quite sure of what you're getting aside from "Chicken" or "Pork", the girl who works in the cafe, Nong, seems q
uite happy to go and get us things to try.Som Tam - aka Papaya Salad (see right) - is really yum salad made with papya (obviously), chillis, beans, fish sauce, peanuts and sometimes dried baby prawns too. This one we had in a restaurant on chayaphum road, but you can buy it from stalls on the street and pretty much any hole in the wall place for around 25 baht.
Larb is also really common around here - its basically minced meat of some kind, fried with basil and chillis and i'm sure other stuff and you usually eat it with sticky rice - YUM!
Mick and I first ate this in Laos last year, but apparently it is a very common dish in Northern Thailand, Burma and Laos. Hooray!
Fried rice is also available everywhere and is usually a huge serve with meat with it also.Seafood fried rice is very yummo - especially when you get the big chunks of tasty tasty mud crab in it! Again, its usually around 25-40 baht, so around $1.00. I usually can't finish a whole dish of it, so its a good thing Mick is here to clean up the plate after me!
Omeletes also feature heavily on the menus, and are a savory affair of tasty fluffy eggs with anything you like in them - we've had vegetable only ones served with sweet chilli sauce (like the picture) but also ones with seafood and a mass of bean shoots. Regardless of the type, they are very good!!xx
