We have just returned from a month long holiday in SE Asia including Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, and Singapore. On this trip we concentrated on learning more of the Isan/Laos type street foods.

Anyone have a favourite Thai street food that you'd like to make at home?

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Wow, never had the good fortunate to travel to South East Asia or areas in US with neighborhoods that would have that kind of street food.

Can you tell us a little about what you found?

Hi M-A ...dunno about street food, but here is what I did for lunch yesterday. My version of Pad Thai, with tofu and prawns. I also slivered pea pods and carrot and threw that in as well, with garlic, ginger and Thai red curry paste. Medium rice stick, Banh Pho Erewhon brand, which I keep for emergency when I do not have fresh rice noodles available. Had to throw in that "evil" sauce as well, of course, fish sauce. And topped it with crushed peanuts, sesame oil and chopped green onion. I was informed by my better half, that I could do that one anytime! No doubt I will do it again, it was delicious! Cheers, OldDoug

The best street food I've had in Thailand was in Hua Hin. We stopped at a vendor peddling Kow Man Gai -- chicken with rice. The chicken was the most moist and tender I've ever had and the rice was soft and fluffy. It was like eating a chicken-flavored cloud.

I also love the half pineapple for 10 baht!

Koshiri from the street vendor in the Khan el Khalili in Cairo, Egypt

Pav Bhaji near Churchgate Station in Bombay, India (took me a week to get rid of the ensuing Hershey Squirts!!)

Clear, spicy chicken soup with fat noodles at the floating market in Bangkok

Indonesian squid in spicy chili paste with coconut rice in Amsterdam

Street food is in vogue at the moment for sure, yet not all street food is great or by default more &quot;authentic&quot;, there is plenty of bad street food in Thailand, the tourist/backpacker area of Banglampuu in Bangkok for example has a multitude of street food stalls selling food that no Thai would touch with a barge pole! Looking for stalls frequented by natives is always a good sign, stalls that only do one or maybe two dishes means the vendor will have (hopefully) have perfected their dish and you'llbe rewarded with a truly refined dish. Hoi malaeng buu tod - crunchy batter and mussel omelette is a wonderful, smokey crunchy dish that was seemingly made for Sriracha sauce - or vice versa of course! Hainese chicken rice is popular all over SEA (South East Asia) and I've had superb versions in Singapore, KL and Thailand, even the Vietnamese have embraced it, wonderful poached chicken served with rice cooked in the chicken stock and a bowl of this light stock served as a soup and finally a yellow bean based dipping sauce make this probably the most intricate of all common street food dishes. Green papaya or green mango salad with grilled chicken (som tam and gai yaang) is typical Isan street food, add some sticky rice and you have a complete street food meal and its so popular its now available all over Thailand and not just in the North East of the country. I've recently spent some time in Burma and I was really pleasantly impressed with the food, including the street food, that was available there - Mohinga in Rangoon, a noodle soup with fish and a multitude of toppings to customise its flavour, to Lahphet thote in Mandalay - a fermented tea leaf salad with crispy garlic and chilies was a beautiful smokey fresh single plate snack - washed down with a fresh lime juice was pure heaven. The trade embargo makes getting Burmese ingredients a bit tricky but I'm working on it and will be publishing some recipes probably on thehonestwok.com which I'm planning to take over!

I want to go to Thailand just to eat the food and maybe take a cooking class! You all tantalize me with your delicious descriptions!