Food in Thailand = Sooo Good!

So, to share details of our 5 week vacation in South East Asia, I'm going to do a post on each place we stopped. Even more exciting - I learned how to add pictures to this blog! Yay! So, in honour of all the food pictures we took, I decided to begin with the food we are missing right now. Yum, yum.

To start off, Thailand was amazing and out of the three countries we visited in 5 weeks, it was our favourite in many ways. THE FOOD IS SO GOOD!

Our Top 5 *drum roll please*

5. Tom Yum Soup. This is a sweet and sour soup that I didn't originally love but it has a unique taste and Zac really enjoys it and insists it stay on the list.

PS We made this in our cooking class!

4. Yellow Noodle Soup with Pork (not the official name). We had this yummy soup at various food stalls.

3. Tom Kha Kai (Chicken in Coconut Soup). Zac and I debate that this belongs at #3. Sorry Zac.

SO GOOD.

2. Pad Thai. So delicious. We mainly had it with shrimp or chicken.

Zac's first taste of Pad Thai from a street vendor

1. Green Curry Chicken. I couldn't even tell you how many times I had this.

Zac and I made these in our cooking class. Mine is on the left, and was WAY too spicy. Zac's was just right.

Papaya salad also gets a special mention. Yum! We also loved the fish cakes. 

Cooking Fish Cakes.

Of course, dessert is a separate matter and we had two absolute favourites  One is banana and nutella rottee, which we found at various food stalls in Chiang Mai and Koh Tao. Rotee was available in many varieties and with many different types of fruit, but we only tried the one version, many times. The other hit was Mango Sticky Rice. I'm salivating right now as I tell you about it. It's pretty self explanatory, but you just can't imagine how delicious the sweet rice and fresh mango is, drizzled with condensed milk. Love love love love love. Best of all, the recipe is in our cook book, so we will be making some soon. Stay tuned!

It looks exactly as it tastes. YUM!!!

          

Zac and Jen discovering Rotee for the first time. Ah-maze-ing.

Mango Sticky Rice

Also, we couldn't get enough of the shakes, typically $1 Canadian or even less. We often got coconut, mango, pineapple, banana, or a mixture of all three.

Jen, Zac and  Matt. We first discovered the shakes at this stall in Chiang Mai. 

This post was way more fun to make than my last ones, thanks to Jen and all the countless blogs I checked out before our trip.  Kindof like scrap booking online. I'm going to do it again!