When you walk around Bangkok city, you will see a lot of street food, we call “ Pang loy “They are many kind of foods selling at the day time and night time, some are looks dirty but many of them are clean and yummy!!

One of the food that you can see everywhere is Kuay Teaw ( noodles soup ) but regarding to Farang, you might not know how to order since they don’t have the menu.
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Normally they have 3 sizes of rice noodles and egg noodle which is good hehe

Send mee = smallest size noodle   Send lek = medium size noodle      Send yai = biggest size noodle   Ba mee = egg noodle

They have all kind of meats and balls ( look chin  (look means ball and chin means piece))  such as:  pork = moo, beef = nua,  fish = pla, chicken = kai, seafood = talay

look chin moo = pork balls      look chin nua = beef balls        look chin pla = fish balls       look chin kai = chicken balls     look chin kung = shrimp balls ( soooo good! )

but mostly they don’t mix pork and beef at the same shop ( some do ) many Thais don’t eat beef because of their religious belief.

The easiest way to order is just choose the noodle you like and tell them to put everything ( tuk yang ), meat and balls.

And you have 2 choices when order, you can choose noodle with soup ( nam )  or without soup ( hang ), I recommend you to try egg noodle without soup hehe  for example ;
Ba mee hang tuk yang = egg noodle with all meat and balls without soup

Send mee hang look chin moo = smallest size noodle with pork balls without soup

Send yai nam kai = biggest size noodle with chicken and soup
Ba mee hang look chin kung = egg noodle without soup with shrimp balls

Ok, I am hungry now after all this topic!  gotta go eat my favorite Ba mee hang look chin kung! yummy!  

cheers,
Kae 

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10/08/2009 ADDED: HISTORY OF "THAILAND STREET VENDORS (PANG LOI) - CLICK HERE

31/08/09 - we added a section to our Thai Culture A to Z - Thai Street Food