Streetside food

One of the many things Bangkok is famous for is it's streetside food vendors. To give you a feel, I took a few photos yesterday along my way to lunch, a couple of blocks from where I work.


Fresh fruit is readily available from a lot of stands. Guava, pineapple, pamellos, and of course, mango, the 'official' fruit of Bangkok. There are many other choices that vary day by day.

Lots of lunch choices at many roadside stands. Here are sausages, fish balls and dumplings, along with who knows what else?

Many small restaurants line the streets, too small to seat folks inside, so you get your bowl of noodles or plates of rice with chicken or pork or whatever, and sit at tables actually ON the sidewalks. Some places don't have tables and you just sit on a plastic stool with the plate on your lap. By the way, few Thais use chopsticks unless eating Chinese or Japanese food. Most can handle chopsticks with ease, but use a fork and spoon like Americans would... well mostly, except the fork is used to push food onto the spoon...

My lunch yesterday was crispy fried chicken. A leg, thigh, and wing along with a package of sticky rice for 55 baht, or well under two dollars.