Thursday, 02 July 2009
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Dining on Sukhumvit Soi 38, A Thai Side Street
Our friend Jackson is in town from San Francisco, his first time back since late 2006. The other evening we took him for dinner to Sukhumvit Soi 38, a side street near the Thong Lo BTS station known for its nighttime eateries.
Both sides of this Bangkok soi are lined with food shops that spill onto the streets, offering nearly every type of Thai food you can imagine. The food is very fresh, very cheap, and very authentic. Because of the location - lots of expats live nearby - some concessions have been made to non-Thais for everyone's convenience. For example, it is increasingly common to find laminated menus that have some of the more popular items with both English and Japanese names. If you want some of the more obscure items though, you have to read and speak Thai.
Regardless of your Thai literacy, no corners are cut when it comes to preparing the food! This is the real deal.
Fatty pork (roasted then fried in oil for an extra-crispy skin) served over rice with a Hoisin-type sauce.
A "red soup" with various pork parts including cubes of boiled blood.
Borrowed from Malaysia and Singapore: chicken and oily rice.
Wide rice noodles stir fried with egg and shrimp - kind of like pad thai but without the tamarind sauce.
Everyone's favorite - and also a Malaysian import - chicken satay with peanut dipping sauce.
One of the nice features of Soi 38 is that if you are sitting in one vendor's building, you can still order form other vendors elsewhere on the soi. They will deliver the food to you, collecting the money and then return for the utensils and plates later on. Each vendor uses a different type of plate, so it is easier to identify what belongs to whom.
Would you like to go to Sukhumvit Soi 38?
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Comments (18)
those food sounds really good ^__^ i like the boiled blood & the last one :)
peanut sauce is also used for vietnamese salad rolls :D
wwaaayyy too much meat for my liking
I like, well... none.Ah. I miss the nightmarket things...
I haven't even had the first dish before, but I want it so badly right now.
I lived on soi 23 for three years and remember all the food was great!!!! but on my soi they had fried grasshoppers as well.
j@Olyachka@xanga - Well, there are many vegetarian options, too.
@soberheartss@xanga - Yes, very similar sauce as for the Vietnamese rolls. The sauce for the satay is a little heavier, though, and less vinegary.
@Gentemann@xanga - Thankfully, no fried bugs on Soi 38! I always associate those with more touristy areas; none of my Thai friends seem to actually like them.
Yes, I recognize the nasi ayam @ chicken rice and and chicken satay (you should try chicken's bishop shop @ ass satay)
if they had more vegetarian options... then yes,
looks fantastic!
I would like to go there and I would like to stay until I've tried all those dishes. They look delicious!
I've only been to Seafood Market restaurant on Sukhumvit Soi 24, and the food there were pretty good =)
Those pictures above look really yummy to me... would love to go back and try all of themhmm. we have these in singapore too
I can't wait to go back to Thailand soon! I went almost every year growing up, but as I've gotten older haven't had a chance to get back in a few years. Khao Mun Gai (Chicken and oily rice) is one of my favorite Thai comfort foods.
@free2chuze@xanga - Where is chicken's bishop shop? KL?
@wifeylifey@xanga - Well, the great food is still here so I hope you'll have the opportunity to come back and enjoy it soon!
@princessMic@xanga - Interesting how a lot of the same food has spread up and down the Malay peninsula, isn't it?
@moshixkon@xanga - Is that the one with the huge neon sign outside proclaiming, "If it swims, we cook it"?
@esprit1240@xanga - If you are a culinary explorer, Thailand is a great place to visit.
yes yes, that's the one =D it took me like more than half an hour to get there from Khaosan Road, and it was so worth the try :)
Oooh Satay! The peanut sauce is my favourite, and sometimes the also serve it with these rice cubes (called ketupat)- dip those in satay sauce and it's amazing!
Chicken rice @ Nasi ayam. Yummy stuff. Has to be with that chilli sauce though.
Tom yum is probably one of my favourite Thai dishes. That and Thai green curry. I shall go hunting for that again when I'm in Thailand next week.
OMgosh! I want to be in Thailand again so bad right now!!! THE BEST FOOD EVAR!!!