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Fruit and vegetables, flowers and dirt cheap surf wear – sounds like a strange mixture? The night market next to Chayo Phraya River near Memorial Bridge in Bangkok offers all that – simply follow the unending stream of people who start their shopping spree here at sundown. Beside the huge choice of cool clothing, which especially attracts Bankok’s hip youth, one thing inspired us more than anything again: The mile of food stalls that boil, barbecue, and deep-fry most absurd snacks. Only for you, sagesex has tried the pearls of the snack whoopee, all according to the motto “don’t ask – bite off”. Here are some of our favorites:

Barbecue Eggs

Here, egg white, egg yolk, and barbecue taste fuse into a perfect flavor symbiosis on a spit. Admittedly, in the end it’s just eggs, but the presentation alone is worth ten Baht. Sagesex verdict: Healthy mix of cholesterol and cancer – not exciting, but delicious.

Barbecue sausage a la Thai

In principle this snack does correspond to Thuringian Bratwurst, notwithstanding the obligatory spit. However, it’s not just pork that graces the inside of these intestine hulls: They are also filled with some spices, rice and glass noodles. Which makes them even more digestible! A must for every sausage lover!

Extra long tentacles

Sometimes stringy like rubber, sometimes tender as leather, this squid snack is certainly not everyone’s cup of tea. As with quite some Thai snacks, the decisive thing is the chili sauce served with it. It dictates the taste of the entire dish, since the tentacles usually don’t have much of an inherent taste. Not really disgusting, not really delicious either, but in any case it covers your daily requirement of suckers.

A potpourri of deep-fried critters

Our rapture was enormous when a cart carrying deep-fried giant locusts, maggots, grubs and other critters came by. Even small frogs spread all four limbs away from their dead fried torsos. Even more enormous, however, was our disappointment when we had half emptied our bag of fritto misto. Everything tastes the same and fried dead and if there hadn’t been some spring onions mixed in, it would have lacked any taste at all. It’s all dry and soon chitinous parts start pricking your gums or get hung up between your teeth. As funny as it may look (sorry for the bad photo, but we weren’t really allowed to take any – “no official”) – deep-fried critters are no fun! Up till now the only (!) snack that we didn’t finish eating up.

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Obst und Gemüse, Blumen und Surferklamotten zu Schleuderpreisen – klingt nach einer seltsamen Mischung? Der Nachtbazar am Chayo Phraya River bei der Memorial Bridge in Bangkok bietet all das – einfach dem nicht endenden Strom von Menschen folgen, die hier bei Sonnenuntergang ihre Shoppingtour beginnen. Neben der riesigen Auswahl an cooler Kleidung, die vor ...