Bangkok’s Best Street Foods for Vegans – Delectable and Satisfying Treats

A great choice with which to commence your sampling of vegan Bangkok street foods would be the popular mee krob or crispy sweet noodles. When this delicious snack is inexpertly made, it could be over-sweet, yet when prepared with the proper level of acidity, mee krob will be a true delight. This snack would be particularly popular at the time of the vegetarian festival when you would find it readily at hawker stalls and markets in the Thai capital.

The best place to obtain this Chinese-style cotton candy would be Bangkok's vibrant Chinatown. Here, you would be able to observe hawkers demonstrating great strength as they make this candy by pulling it and immersing it in pasty rice flour. This candy is completed by stuffing it with a filling consisting of coconut, peanut, and sesame. As you might expect, the final product would be an irresistible creation.

The distinctive Thai black grass jelly or chao kuai in the native tongue would be another special sweet for the vegan visitor to Bangkok. To make this food, leaves and stems from the plant known as Chinese mesona are dried and oxidized in sunlight, after which they are boiled. Next, a substance with alkaline properties along with starch is used, to achieve a firm chewy consistency. Finally, this jelly would be cubed and served with a topping of brown sugar.

The vegan version of these tasty tacos will not always be available, and therefore you should take the opportunity to purchase some if you happen to notice it. Often, these sweets would contain a filling containing egg yolk, but at events like the vegetarian festival, it may be possible to find vegan variants. You would find that the fillings for these tacos could be either savoury or sweet; both would include coconut with the savoury variant being saltier.

Another interesting Bangkok street food would be nam kaeng sai or mixed ice dessert, which actually consists of a variety of sweets immersed in a sweet iced coconut soup; this treat would be a refreshing snack on a warm day in the city. You will have the opportunity to enjoy it with your choice of ingredients like sweetcorn, candied cassava, fruits, tub tim grop (a Thai sweet), lotus, beans, water chestnuts and more. An accommodation choice to consider where you could base yourself as you try out such street foods would be Citadines Sukhumvit 16 Bangkok which offers conveniently located Bangkok serviced apartments; short stay options at the property provide an ideal base for foodie tours too.

Vegans should undoubtedly take the opportunity to try out the enticing tapioca pearl balls which you will find in Bangkok. Usually, this food would feature a filling of pork, but vegan variants would contain shiitake mushrooms and/or preserved turnips instead. This filling would be prepared by stir-frying mushrooms or turnips with sugar; after this preparation has cooled, it would be encased in tapioca pearls and then steamed. The tapioca pearl balls would typically be accompanied by lettuce, bird's eye chillies and coriander.