River food and roti sai mai
In Ayutthaya, have boat noodles for lunch while you tour the ruins. If you want to share a meal with your group, you could pick grilled river prawns. Roti sai mai, thin roti wrapped around spun sugar, is a snack to try in Ayutthaya. Wrap one yourself and enjoy a sweet break on your trip.
Choosing a meal in Ayutthaya
Have boat noodles for lunch, and for a meal with several people, share grilled river prawns and rice. Roti sai mai is easy to wrap one sheet at a time while you adjust how much spun sugar to use.
Ayutthaya sits close to the river, and a food trip built around noodles and river prawns is well known there. You can also try roti sai mai, which Muslim communities have kept going. Eat noodles for a meal and wrap spun sugar in roti for a snack, and enjoy the different foods of the same city.
Boat noodles are eaten in other cities too. The price of river prawns changes with size and selling unit, so look at the prawns you are ordering before you decide.
Pick a dish you are curious about. Each guide explains how it tastes and what to eat it with.
You enjoy the broth, noodles and meat together. The taste of the broth can change with the meat and the seasonings. Try it first without adding any seasoning, then add chili or other seasonings a little at a time.
Boat Noodles: flavor and how to eat it →
You enjoy the aroma of grilled prawns and the texture of the meat. Try the meat on its own first, then add a little of the sauce that comes with it. Eat it with rice and you taste the sauce too.
Grilled River Prawns: flavor and how to eat it →
The thin, soft roti and the fine strands of spun sugar work together in texture. The sweetness depends on how much spun sugar you add. Put in only a little at first, and add more to suit your taste on the next roti.
Roti Sai Mai: flavor and how to eat it →A fruit's famous growing region and the city where you buy it now may not be the same. Check the season and flavor, then pick a fruit you want to try.
Sweet tamarind is a fruit you eat soft and sweet. Remove the hard seed and fibers in the middle and eat the flesh.
Sweet Tamarind: season, flavor and how to eat it →
Ripe mango is soft and sweet. Some varieties of green mango are eaten for a different texture from ripe ones, so you do not need to assume that every green mango is unripe.
Mango: season, flavor and how to eat it →
The sweetness and the firmness of the flesh vary with the variety and ripeness. It helps to tell apart bananas eaten when yellow and ripe from bananas used for cooking.
Banana: season, flavor and how to eat it →
It is a crunchy, juicy fruit. Fresh fruit and taeng mo pan, blended with ice, give you different textures.
Watermelon: season, flavor and how to eat it →Boat noodles are eaten in other cities too. The price of river prawns changes with size and selling unit, so look at the prawns you are ordering before you decide.
Have boat noodles for lunch, and for a meal with several people, share grilled river prawns and rice. Roti sai mai is easy to wrap one sheet at a time while you adjust how much spun sugar to use.
If you want to read more about the food and the regions behind it, these sources are a good place to start. Ingredients and recipes can vary from one restaurant to the next.
