Rice

A Burmese influenced soup-like dish from northern Thailand made with deep-fried crispy egg noodles, pickled cabbage, shallots, lime, nam prik pao and meat in a curry-like sauce containing coconut milk.

Fishwort. A green leafy plant with a slightly fishy smell used in China, Japan, Korea and South East Asia. The roots may also be used and the plant is also used for medicinal purposes.

Chicken

A soup of chicken, using black-skinned chickens, marinated in Coca Cola and served with char kway teow.

Charcoal-grilled chicken

A northern Thai dish of chicken curry with crisp deep-fried egg noodles.

Palm heart. The heart of the coconut palm is particularly favoured.

Zedoary. This ginger/turmeric-like root with a flavour of unripe mango and ginger is available widely in India and Indonesia, where the leaves an shoots are also used, but hardly anywhere else. The root is dried and then ground into powder.

Pancakes with a sweet filling.