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Handy Food Words in Thai

Here are a couple useful words that might help you get what you're looking for in a restaurant.  Truth be told, in most cases and in most places, English will get you by.  If you're off the track though, or if you want to build your language skills here is a start:

 Fried rice – cow pat   Rose Apple – chompuu
 Fried rice with egg – cow pat kai  Banana – kluay
 Chicken/pork fried rice – cow pat gai/moo  Coconut – ma prow
 Fried veggies over rice – cow pat pak  Grapes – a-ngun
 Fried noodles with veggies – ma ma pat  Mango – mamuang
   Papaya – Malakor
 Papaya salad – som tam  Pineapple – sapparot
 Fried noodles – pad thai  Pomelo – som-oh
   Watermelon – taeng mo
 (Not) Spicy – (mai) pet  
 Delicious – arroy  
   
 Water – nam plao  
 Ice – nam kaeng  

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