Thai Street Food.....Outside Thailand

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Been seeing a lot of local restaurants lately promoting themselves as "Thai Street Food" or "Authentic Thai Street Food"

Hardly delivering. While one of the restaurants I've been eating at for years, it's a shame we don't get the traditional food carts. Unfortunately our food and beverage regulation are strict, for a good reason, but there's nothing quiet like pull a plastic stool on the footpath an scoffing down a noodle soup. for around a $1 This is close but really just a sweet stand and TukTuk outside a restaurant.

What's the scene like elsewhere

[Old Hippie]

The closest thing to “authentic Thai street food”  here in the USA is maybe down in LA on the weekends. While San Francisco is widely touted as a “restaurant town” or “foodie paradise,” I trend to disagree. Thai food up here, other than what my wife makes, is mostly garbage cooked for farangs who don’t know any better, it’s mostly food Thais generally speaking don’t eat. In general, I am tired of spending money on bad restaurant food. Prices here are just insane to begin with, adding bad food and bad service with an expected/almost demanded 20-30% tip is a no go.  Pad Thai gong here is about $25USD all in…small portion and usually terrible…hamburgers can set you back $30+ in some places…but not to worry, the dump promised to lower the price of everything…

[Coss]

On Vietnamese flavours - I went to a "brand new" Pho shop in Middle Earth on Sunday.

It is our custom to take the old fella, (me) to  lunch after Tak Baht at the local Lao temple, and MLG found this Pho place, so we went.

As we stood in the long cold 8°C queue on the pavement outside, I asked MLG how she found the place, she said Tik Tok. I said, you just want to stand in the cold 'cause you found it on Tik Tok and want to post about it. At which point about half the queue's male members turned and gave me the "I've got one too" look.

However, two big pots of soup, plenty of prep and they were churning through them at about 4 pax a minute, The Pho was good, the plastic stools and little tables authentic, price OK.

I'll wait for Tik Tok to lose interest, before I go again.

[think_too_mut]

Shopping malls, like MEGA, have a 100m indoor strip of street food vendors. Aircon, clean, no stray dogs. No sit down, people buy and take home. Some people telling me that upmarket shopping malls like Siam Paragon, Icon Siam, also have that.
"Internal server error", is not letting me upload the picture.

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The topic actually related to "Outside Thailand"

[think_too_mut]

Oh, sorry, the picture looked like from Thai, that is the only place where I would even glance at street food.
In Japan, unless there is Japan government approved promotion of Thai tourism, that kind of food would not exist, banned.
When the promotion is on, even Lady Boy bars from Pattaya (Tiffany) are allowed to send their staff to dance and entertain the visitors, a whole 500m street is for Thai tourism and street food stands.
 

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Picture was taken in Pitt St Haymarket. Unfortunately due to the myriad of regulations here in Oz it won't happen.

One of my favorite places to eat in BKK is the food cart near Bully's. Been visiting it for in one form or another for 20 years.

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Discovered this today. Had no idea it existed 😯

Chatswood Street Food Markets! Open every Thursday and Friday from 9am to 9pm

 

 

[Old Hippie]

Recent trip to L.A. Yielded fewer options than before. The food court at C-LAX market and a few stalls outside are still the best options in town… 

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5 hours ago, Old Hippie said:

Recent trip to L.A. Yielded fewer options than before. The food court at C-LAX market and a few stalls outside are still the best options in town… 

That wouldn't happen to coincide with one Steven Miller would it