Sawaddee ka welcome to hot thai kitchen I am in Bangkok Thailand in my parents beautiful
backyard and usually when I'm in Thailand I share with you delicious foods and restaurants or in the
market but there is one other place that's full of delicious food that is often overlooked and
that is the super market high supermarkets are great place to grab snacks for your road trip
or for your hotel room but with thousands and thousands of options on the shelf it might be
a little hard to know which it's worth trying so to help you with that I have selected seven items
that I think you should try when you are here I made sure that these items made three different
criteria one they have to be delicious otherwise why would we bother and - they must be available
at any major supermarkets in Thailand so that no matter where you are in the country you should be
able to find them and finally 3 they must not be easy to make at home which makes them even
more important that you try them now while you can't alright let's get started so the first
thing to try is one of my absolute favorite savory snacks and that is kao tung Moo yong or
rice crackers with pork floss so cow tongue is rice crackers and Moo Yong is pork floss we call
it pork but basically it's Chinese style dried shredded pork this stuff is addictive oh look
at that and they come in a few different flavors but this is the classic so so crunchy look at that
it's just so satisfying explosion airy crunch and the pork adds a mommy it's a little sweet
this one also has some nori in it which I love there's actually my new favorite one check this
out oh yes if you are nori fan this one is for you doesn't have to be this brand there are many many
brands out there sometimes it comes in a clear package but look for rice crackers with pork
plus you will not go wrong if you love to snack on dried fruit this next one is for you dried
bananas and not any dried bananas dry tie bananas and when we drive it on is we use a variety called
gluing my which are the short fat bananas that I use for my fried bananas and we usually use it
for cooking and it's so sweet and so fruity it's really very different from the regular banana that
you have and when you dry some dry it they don't need to add any sugar at all and the natural sugar
just becomes natural glazed it becomes what I call banana fudge mmm it's like chewy sweet but
it's got a fur dienes to it there is a tartness in there so satisfying to chew it's quite sweet
so usually one of these and I'm good great plain snacks and you can find this basically any where
any supermarkets in Thailand this next one is for all you cookie monsters out there I'm definitely
one of them I love cookies these are tone one or coconut roll cookies yeah now these are light and
delicate they're not hard to make but it requires a special press a special griddle so that kind of
falls into my category of not easy to make at home because it requires a different equipment
but these are so light and crumbly crumbly kind of like a wiill cookie and it uses coconut milk
as the liquid so it's got that coconut flavor this one has black sesame seeds which is pretty
common just listen to this crunchy flakiness and these also come in different flavors you can get
coconut flavor which is the classic durian flavor of your fan tyro flavor even corn flavor so lots
of options there and these make great gifts I often bring these back for the peeps in Canada
now I don't know about you but when I'm in a different country I'm always curious about the
different variations of the same thing that I'm familiar with so for this one I would like to
recommend to you some Thai flavors potato chips that's right now in Thailand they love coming
up with new flavors of Lay's especially every time I come here there's always a new flavor
on the shelf and I'm always interested in what they come up with and trust me they are very
creative so for example this one is the one I've never seen before hot chili squid flavor and then
this one is me and [ __ ] flavor now if you know me and come it's so it's it's an appetizer made
of lots of different ingredients coconut peanut ginger lime wrapped in wild beauty leaf I have
a recipe for it and there's a lace flavor of that it always kind of freaks me out how how
closely they can capture the iconic flavor of the food I definitely get get glimpses
of me and come if I didn't know this was a man come flavor I might be like oh that's tastes
so familiar but I don't quite know what it is but if you tell me it's being kind I'm like oh
yeah that I I definitely taste that let me see and by the way in Asia we like to make potato
chips seafood flavor so it's shrimp flavor squid flavor fish fish flavoured this one looks good
Oh horse good oh it's definitely squiddy taste of dried squid whip sweet chili sauce they managed
to get that grilled flavor in there too like that grilled squid flavor that's amazing let
me know what kind of lace flavor this unique to your country that you think is really cool
really interesting or really good share with me in the comments this next one may not be
for everybody but if you are a durin lover it is for you and if you are curious adventurous eater
it is also for you so this is durian fudge I like to call things fudge because you know some things
are just so fudgy and this is definitely one of them this is basically durian meat that's been
cooked and concentrated down into a fudgy paste I would consider this candy and it always comes
in this log shape packaging all you have to do to eat it is untie this little thing this part
here may not look the most appetizing but you just kind of like squeeze out a little chunk and it'll
come right up yes I know it looks a little weird let's look at this look at this fudgy pace and
interestingly the drink flavor is not as strong in here as it is in the fresh one mmm I don't
know what is about it but ma'am and it's just got a mild durian flavor has a texture of like really
soft caramel yeah maybe think of it as durian soft caramel definitely very interesting nothing like
it so give it a go Kyla is known for peanuts right we use peanuts a lot in our cuisine but what some
of you may not know is that we also turn peanuts into really delicious next this is peanuts that
it's a classic brand of peanut snacks that I grew up with it's older than me by gosh know how many
years and there are many flavors but today I'm going to recommend to you chicken flavor that's
right chicken flavored peanut you heard me right and as weird as it sounds it is so good and it
comes in the tanks and it is the most addictive state like I have such a hard time stopping eating
these so it is kind of dangerous I can actually get this in Canada at the tigris restore and I
gave this Adam and he just about went mad for them look and their peanuts coat it in sort of a thin
flour coating it it's like so mommy intense and in tyree which describe is as money I have such
a hard time translating that word into English but it's it's such a month ooh to have as like nhong
nhong nhong remember you can't you just can't sell so give it a go you can find this anywhere
even at the 7-eleven lastly it is another classic snack I grew up with and that is squiddy yes you
may notice that we like squid here in Thailand now this is baked crispy squid it is not cheap
okay because it's like concentrated squid squiddy actually has two types of squid one is dried and
sort of rolled flat kind of hard to describe kind of like squid jerky okay squid jerky is
the word but then this variety they bake it so it's crunchy and this is what I always go for
so addictive
it's crunchy but as you start to chew it it becomes a little chewy so you get you
really get to you know to munch on it a little touch of spicy a little sweet
half-sack not sponsored by sweetie or anything else that I talked about today and I've got an
eighth bonus one yeah that's a little treat for all of you who stayed to the end now this one I
made it a bonus because it meets two of the three criteria and the one that it doesn't meet is that
it's not available yet in all major supermarkets in Bangkok I am talking about banana chips but not
just any regular banana chips these are banana chips sandwich with a tamarind filling that's
right check this out it's like a healthier version of Oreo but so much more satisfying
I'm not even kidding you it's so so good at first when I thought of like that's a weird
and I ate it and I was like that's good and it makes such great gifts to that tamarind filling
is a little tart sweet but it's got a chew so you've got the crunchy banana chips and it's
not hard you know some banana chips can be hard this is crunchy and airy and then you get chewy
hammerin and the combination is just deadly in a good way and that is it for today I hope
that next time you come to Thailand you make a stop at your local supermarket and you will be
glad you did and if you've got other suggestions other things that you think should be added to my
list let me know in the comments you can even share photos of said items on Facebook Twitter
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