Master The Art Of Thailand Tourism With These Three Tips

It's great on its own or on top of some steamed rice. The fish comes with a nice lemony sauce which is low on calories (it's not a thick sauce, more like a thin, soup) and it's usually spicy so you get that metabolic kick from the chili's. Why you should eat it: poached fish is a great source of lean protein.

There is usually two options for the chicken — fried chicken breasts/thighs or non-fried. If you want even more protein, you can ask for a fried egg or two on Top food and drink in Thailand (https://thailandtourism.biz/category/foods-and-drinks) (just say kai dao" which means fried egg). If you want to increase your lean protein to carb ratio, you can request double or triple chicken portions; it's usually 10 baht more per portion of chicken.

The rice included with the meat also has chicken fat mixed in so it's not as low calorie as you might think and if you pour the sauce that comes with the dish (Khao Man Gai always includes special sauce to pour on) over the rice and chicken you add even more calories to the dish — so skip the sauce if you are worried about that. If the fruit looks good, enjoy, I don't know of anyone who has gotten sick from sliced fruit. Then you come here and realize that fresh sliced fruit is available everywhere…and that you're probably okay to eat it. Food hygiene and preparation cleanliness is not at the level that it is in a Western country, but people also aren't preparing food with the intent to make you sick.

If you've been warned about eating in a ‘third world' country, not eating sliced fruits or vegetables is probably at the top of that warning list right after don't drink the water. Are fresh fruits and salads safe? Often food will come to you even if you're not looking for it in the form of a rolling cart selling sliced fruit, ice cream (they serve real ice cream sandwiches here: little scoops of ice cream between two slices of white bread) or grilled sausages.

Thais eat all types of food at all times of the day and night, and it's impossible to go more than a few hundred meters without coming across a street stall, fruit shake stand set up in someone's driveway, or 7-11. Everywhere you go - whether it's a busy city street or small road in the middle of nowhere - you'll find food and probably lots of it. Bangkok and Chiang Mai are some of the best places to eat well in terms of proximity and variety, but you can find good food anywhere. You'll never go hungry in Thailand.

Add a foreign place, language, flavors and dining style into the mix and I understand why people stick to eating the same three dishes while traveling. Heck, now when I visit the U.S. I'm overwhelmed by my options and don't know how to choose or what to order…and that's in my home country where I speak the language.