Six Closely-Guarded Thailand Tourism Secrets Explained in Explicit Detail

Along with Thai style rice congee soup (joke), one of the most popular things you'll see eaten for breakfast in Thailand is khao kai jeow, meaning just rice and an omelet. Khao tom (ข้าวต้ม) is not only available for breakfast, but it's very common also to eat for dinner, or for a late night meal.

Another style of eating khao tom (ข้าวต้ม) in Thailand is to just get a plain bowl of rice soup, and eat it along with a variety of stir fried dishes. I discovered a few hours later that my dairy allergy extends to goat milk, but the mixture of tangy cheese and hyssop was delicious, and made a welcome change from weeks of shuwarma, falafel, and chummos! Promptly named Druze pizza" by my friends, it's sort of like a cross between yiros/kebab and a cheese toasty: thin, round flatbread spread first with feta and then with hyssop sauce, folded up into a neat pocket and fried golden-brown on the outside.

One of my favourites has been labaneh (I don't know how to spell that; the closest I've found is labneh" referring to just cheese) from a Druze vendor near the Syrian border in the Golan Hights (Israel). My wife is of Russian/Polish descent ( a virtual cement mixer for ALL food, while I'm finicky ) and I can state unequivocally, that Polish food is much preferred, simply my kind of delicious. Past few days here were, by design, full of beer and pierogies, the Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner of Champions while on vacation in Poland !

Never had the borscht, but pea soup with sausage in Warsaw sure put a smile in my belly. And so good to hear from you. I like to think that we are trying to cultivate our appreciation of this earth and its people somewhat like the kid from Wheeler Avenue and his wife do daily.

My wife and I do our best to emulate you, by being curious, respectful, and joyful. You are amazing human beings, just wonderful ambassadors, who put the be-ing in your unique sense of humanism. The travel advice and insights into people and cultures you share is invaluable.

On a personal note, gotta say every time I check in with you, I am so inspired by your very real stories and exquisite photographs, to the point of tears. Another amazing country for street food is India. I live in Thailand tourism [http://thailandtourism.biz/], which is street food heaven and one of my favorites has always been Moo ping (grilled pork skewers) that are best enjoyed with sticky rice.

All of the food you've listed looks incredibly appetizing (wipes drool). In Georgetown it was a hot and sour fish soup tucked away in the back of a market. In KL I found the most incredible beef noodle soup in an unlikely looking shack down an unpromising side street.

And I am SO glad I did, as thanks to that I found countless gems in the most unlikely places - in Malacca I walked a couple of mils out of town to get the best Mee Goreng for breakfast I've ever had.