Grilled by the road
Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0ของย่างริมทาง
The roadside grill is the most reliable good meal between towns, and you smell it before you see it.
7 written upWhat you eat
Khao soi at the morning market, nam ngiao in Shan country, sticky rice in a basket, and the thing your hands smell of afterwards.
Kanom jeen nam ngiao
แอนเดอร์สัน · CC BY-SA 4.0ขนมจีนน้ำเงี้ยว
Fermented rice vermicelli under a thin, sour, red broth of tomato and pork, with dried kapok flower, pork blood cubes and a pork rib.
Khao soi
Takeaway · CC BY-SA 3.0ข้าวซอย
A coconut curry noodle soup of upper northern Thailand, Laos and the Shan States. Chicken or beef, pickled mustard greens, shallot, lime, chilli…
Sticky rice
Kenamparo · CC BY-SA 4.0ข้าวเหนียว
Glutinous rice, steamed rather than boiled, eaten with the right hand in small pressed balls. The everyday grain of the north and the northeast.
The Yunnanese table at Ban Rak Thai
N509FZ · CC BY-SA 4.0อาหารยูนนานที่บ้านรักไทย
Chinese Yunnanese food, on a reservoir, a few kilometres from the Myanmar border, at the end of a road that goes nowhere else.
The morning market
Sharon Hahn Darlin · CC BY 2.0ตลาดเช้า
Every town on this loop has one. Rice, curries in bags, grilled things, sticky rice, coffee, and whatever the hills sent down that morning.
Thua nao
Sai Htun Lin · CC BY-SA 4.0ถั่วเน่า
Soybeans fermented, mashed, pressed flat and sun-dried into thin discs, then toasted or fried and crumbled into food. The name means rotten bean and…