Motormouth From Ipoh – Asian Food & Travel Blog

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Isaan Food; a Northeastern Thai affair that usually involves dishes predominant with chillies, salads, catfish, pork and fried chicken eaten with sticky rice.

Tell me what to eat in Bangkok few years ago, and I’ll go …uh, Tom Yum and Pad Thai? Oh, and Mango Sticky Rice. Or deep fried bugs, maybe. (I tried that on Khao San Road, loved them. Sick, I know)

And then the whole devouring the same old stuff time and again got old. I mean, how many plates of Pad Thai can one take before surrendering to the lure of southern Thai curries looming nearby (with a very VERY pungent waft of pickles and chillies), a stall serving coarse salt-coated grilled freshwater fishes, and the locals happily lapping up bowls after bowls of boat noodles (to come in a later post) while munching on pork rinds?

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