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Khanom buang is a crisp rice-flour taco the size of a coin, filled with sweet meringue cream and topped with sweet shredded coconut or salty shredded shrimp and fried egg yolk.
Khanom buang appears in 18th-century Ayutthaya court records as a noble-household sweet, but the modern street-cart form spread through Bangkok's markets in the late 19th century. The contemporary stall divides the topping into sweet (foi thong egg threads, sweet coconut, meringue) or savoury (shredded shrimp floss, coriander). Or Tor Kor and Chatuchak markets both run dedicated khanom-buang counters where vendors press the rice-flour shell on a hot griddle and lift it crisp from the heat in 60 seconds.
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Or Tor Kor in Bangkok's Chatuchak is the agricultural market with the cleanest food court in the city, som tam stalls, grilled-chicken counters.
OrderSom tam, grilled chicken, curry plates
TipThe som tam pla ra stall in the back corner is the canonical order; the durian and mangosteen vendors at the front are seasonal.
Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok's Chatuchak runs Saturday and Sunday only with 15,000 stalls, the city's largest market and a food-court chain.
TipSection 26 and 27 are the food clusters. Arrive by 10:00 to beat the heat; the BTS Mo Chit station is two minutes away.
Sampeng Lane in Bangkok's Yaowarat Chinatown is the 250-year-old daytime wholesale alley for dried goods, Chinese-Thai pastes and bird's-nest soup vendors.
TipDaytime trade only; closes by 17:00 before the night market kicks in. Wholesale prices apply for bulk purchases.
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