14 Mouth-Watering Thai Street Foods You'll Love

Pad Thai: The most famous of Thai street food, Pad Thai is available from street vendors all over the country. It’s a tangy, peanut-laden stir-fried noodle dish, typically topped with beef, pork, chicken, tofu. 

Pad See Eiw: Literally translated as ‘stir-fried soy sauce noodles, Pad See Eiw is similar to Pad Thai, but made specifically with wide rice noodles, and is salty from soy rather than tangy from tamarind. 

Pad Kra Pao: Thailand’s most famous rice dish, Pad Kra Pao is minced pork or chicken, delicately spiced and flavored with oyster sauce, soy, Thai basil, and long beans. It’s typically served over rice with a plumped fried egg on top.

Kai Jeow: The secret to this Thai-style omelet is getting the right consistency – soft and fluffy in the middle; brown and crispy on the outside – and that satisfying tang of fish sauce. Can be served just with green onions; ‘deluxe’ versions are filled with prawns, pork, or chicken. 

Som Tam: A real love-it-or-hate-it dish, Som Tam is Thailand’s famous papaya salad. Intensely sour and usually very spicy, it typically combines fresh papaya with garlic, chili, fish sauce, dried shrimp, and lots of fresh lime juice. 

Khao Soi: No list of Thai street food is complete without taking a trip ‘up north’ to Chiang Mai, where you’ll find this hearty noodle soup. The broth is a rich, delicately spiced coconut milk yellow curry, stuffed with egg noodles and shredded chicken.

Kao Niew Ma Muang: Or, as it is much better known – mango sticky rice. A fantastically simple dish, there are typically just four ingredients: sticky rice simmered in coconut milk and sugar, and the juiciest, ripest fresh mangos.

Roti: Inheriting the Indian word for bread, Roti is in fact rice paper pancakes filled with all kinds of sweet treats – most famously bananas – and topped with reduced condensed milk. Sweet, sweet, sweet! 

Kluay Tod: SImply – fried mini bananas, coated in rice flour and grated coconut, served hot from the wok. A dish that could equally be filed under snacks or starters, served from street cards all over the Land of Smiles.