Street Food Swoop – Thai Frog Curry

When it comes to street food, we go local. We pull over at the smallest little roadside places and point and order.

If the signs are in Thai, we have no idea what the dish is called. And it’s been a bit frustrating, especially when we eat something we like and then try to track it down again.

We have now hired a code-cracker. Our lovely new nanny, who is happy to be our street food guide as well as our baby-whisperer.

Our first foray with super-nanny was to our local market, where we discovered one of Darling Man’s favourite dishes was indeed frog curry. We’ve ordered it several times and it’s a bit spicy for me (and I don’t like eating frog with its tiny little bones – poor frog). But is the type of super-local dish I’m interested in, something that’s not on the menu in Thai restaurants outside of Thailand.

But now we know what it is. Thai frog curry, or kua khao kob.

And just in case you have a photographic memory here is what it looks like in Thai.

But wait, there’s more!

Our super-nanny believes home-cooked food is best. So she has instructed us to find our favourite street food and she will tell us how to cook it at home. (I told you she was a SUPER-nanny.)

Stay tuned for more great Thai street food WITH RECIPES. (And you must imagine how I do a mini-Riverdance when I type “with recipes”.) I am super-excited about learning to cook our own street food! Did you hear me? Recipes so we can COOK OUR OWN STREET FOOD!!!

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By: Barbara

A career girl who dropped out, traveled, found love, and never got around to going home again. Now wrangling a cross-cultural relationship and two third culture kids.