As I said in a previous post you’ll want to learn at least a small amount of Thai words for food unless you plan on eating Pad Thai and fried rice for your entire stay in Thailand. I like pad thai and fried rice as much as the next person, but not everyday for weeks.

Thai food words:

Rice = Kao

Shrimp = goong

Pork = moo

Chicken = gai

Beef = neua

Duck = bped

Watermelon = tangmo

Pineapple = subparod

Coconut = ma-prao

Orange = som

Lime = ma-now

Banana = gluoy

Speaking Thai in the restaurant:

Boiled Rice = Kao Tom

Thai Spicy Grilled Beef = Neua Naam Tok

Chicken with rice = khao mun khai

Omelette = kai jee-o

Fried Vegetables = pad pak

Tomato Chili with Pork = Naam Prik Oog

Chicken cook in Spicy Basil = Khapraew Gai

Papaya Spicy Salad = som tum

Fried Chicken Wings = Peek Gai tod

Chicken Fried with Cashew Nuts = kai phat met mamuang himmaphan

Spicy Lemongrass Soup with Shrimp = tom yum goong

Coconut Soup with Soybeans = Lon Dtao Jieow

Red Pork with rice = khao moo dang

Eat here = gin tee nee

Take away = glub baan

Clear the table please = geb jaan khrap/ka

Hopefully this selection of Thai words will make your stay in the Kingdom of Thailand a little more palatable. There are so many delicious foods to be eaten that you definitely want to experience as much as possible and by learning a little bit of the language you’ll be able to get away from the same same dishes that all the tourists to Thailand are eating.

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