Bangkok: Street Food

When we were in Bangkok, we stayed in Glow Pratunam Hotel, a very new hotel as I understand from Trip Advisor. Google map which has not caption the latest completed structure/building, would not be able to tell you the actual location unless you type in 919 Petchburi Road, or Shibuya 19. Yes, Glow Pratunam and Shibuya are co-located, vertically.

Ok, I am not talking about the hotel here. Yes, it is a very nice hotel, bed is comfortably clean and soft, staff are friendly, etc etc. But I am actually wanting to lead you to food. Right behind the hotel, there's this yummy alley called Soi Petchburi 19. This is the highlight here- the street food!

As my hotel booking did not include breakfast, Soi Petchburi 19 was the place we went to for first meal of the day. Every morning of our stay.

The view that caught my eyes as we stepped out from the rear of the hotel building.

We were walking, seeing what people are selling, ordering and hunting down the yummiest food...

The alley got busier and packed with transporting and getting ready for the day as we walked through the alley.

All form of Thai food, literally at our door step, for us to devour, right before our day of adventure started.

Each coffee or tea is only 15THB. 

As a coffee lover, I hunt for one wherever I go. This was the drink stall that I had been consecutively patronising throughout our stay of 4 days. It was so... Thai~.

I skipped Starbucks at the entrance of Shibuya 19, totally.

This bowl of noodle, I believe is, the best that we tried! It was delightful to see one simple bowl of soup noodle contain many ingredients, like fish balls, pork meat balls, pork meat, bean spouts, spring onion, etc. The fish ball was made of decent amount of meat per fillet. It was naturally chewy, and fishily fresh. I can tell, there was no additives, flavourings, preservatives in one fish ball.

The not-so-nice-looking fish was delicious too, it was well marinated and grilled with many spices. We had the very simple deep fried sweet potato at the far back in the picture above, the pack of soup that my friend was holding was for the delectable noodle (i really don't know the name), the fried egg with white rice, grilled pork (something like satay), we even had dimsum too (which was so-so only). Not to mention, Thai milk tea and the coffee I like.

Another highlight of Soi Petchburi 19 is, a very famous wanton noodle shop. I am not very fond with wanton noodle, but this particular bowl of wanton mee is quite a homely kind noodle, simple and taste good.

Location: 

4/32-33 Soi Petchburi 19

Pratunam, Bangkok

Another gem that we found from the alley is, The Place Restaurant. The food was authentic and scrumptiously good- the green curry, the tom yam soup, the seafood in lemon soup, the deep fried pork belly, phad thai, pineapple fried rice, the deep fried papaya... everything was soOooo good that we went back for our very last meal in Bangkok before we headed to airport.   

I run out of word to describe the very delicious Thai meals we had. I am drooling now, I miss the food. Very much. Food that I don't think I can find and indulge here. Food that is cooked by the people know food very well. Food that is richly cooked with the right spices, herbs and ingredient. 

This post is linking up with DinoMama's Foodie Friday