How to Savour Thai Food with Cheap Flights to Bangkok

When you arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport, which is the main gateway to Bangkok city for the air travellers, you'll have access to many excellent facilities that it provides for the passengers. Instead of hanging out at the airport while awaiting your next flight, you can venture out and explore the best offerings of the Thai capital. Among the variety of things that Bangkok has in store for its visitors is the delicious Thai food. The wide range of dishes that Thai cuisine offers have made it extremely popular worldwide. Before catching your next flight, you can savour some of these mouth-watering local treats.

The savings made on cheap flights to Bangkok can be spent on the Thai dishes that you like the most. One of the popular delicacies is the spicy shrimp soup called Tom Yum Goong. It is a tasty blend of fresh prawns and straw mushrooms with additions of lemongrass, lime leaves, fish sauce, chilli, and galangal. You can enjoy this soup with any meal. Don't miss the spicy green papaya salad called Som Tum, which has its origins in the north-eastern region of Isaan. It is prepared using shredded raw papaya, tomatoes, garlic, green beans, and chillies. Some of the regional varieties of this salad also add dry shrimp or salted crab to the mixture.

After your arrival in any of the flights to Bangkok from London, you can savour the Pad Thai or the Thai-style fried noodles at any of the eateries or restaurants at the airport. It is made using small, thin, or wide noodles, bean sprouts, onion, and egg with the addition of fish sauce, chilli powder, and ground peanuts. You can also taste the Gaeng Daeng, which is a red curry prepared using meat, coconut milk, and red curry paste. A sprinkle of lime leaves is added to make it rich and aromatic.

Your time spent at the airport after arriving in any of the flights to Bangkok from London would also give you the chance to enjoy the Thai fried rice or Khao Pad. It is made with fried rice, onion, egg, and a few herbs. This dish is popularly eaten in this part of the world for lunch and is served with slices of cucumber. Also worth savouring is Tom Kha Kai, which is an iconic soup prepared using tender strips of chicken, coconut milk, chillies, galangal, lemongrass, and crushed shallots. The name of this dish literally translates as 'Chicken in Coconut Soup'.

One of the famous Thai dishes eaten for lunch or dinner is Pad Krapow Moo Saap, which means Fried Basil and Pork in the local language. It is made using pork, holy basil leaves, green beans, fresh chilli, soy sauce, and a little bit of sugar. For the meal, you can order freshly steamed white rice along with this dish. At some of the restaurants, you'll be asked whether you'd like an egg along with the dish. Some of the other Thai dishes you can try are Gaeng Keow Wan Kai or the green chicken curry and Yam Nua or the Spicy Beef Salad.

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I'm Daisy, content strategist for Lowest2, which offers budget-friendly holiday packages to worldwide destinations. Much of my work involves writing on holidays of other popular destinations.