Been visiting Thailand since 1976 and only eat street food, but never seen deep fried ribs on the street.

This website is saying "... ribs are such a popular street food in Thailand."

http://thaifood.about.com/od/thairec...pfriedribs.htm

Huh? Am I missing something?

Last March we had deep fried ribs in Alicante.

There is a dish called graduk moo taut gratiem which is a deep fried, bone-in, rib chunks smothered in deep fried garlic.

But this particular recipe strikes me as a western adaptation of soemthing along those lines.

Thanks. I'm on it.

Just to say. "graduk moo taut gratiem" doesn't turn up anything on Google, but "kraduk moo tod kratiem" has hits.

Now if I can find a where it is on the street.

I think you'll find these in just about any Thai restaurant here, rather than from a single provider food-cart. So any street-based restaurant, or open-air restaurant will have these. They are usually dosed with a bit of "flavor enhancer" and finely ground white pepper, so they taste quite good. Beware though, they are super (temperature) hot, so let them cool for a few minutes. Many places serve these with a smooth (red-ish orange) chili sauce on the side. These same small portioned spare-ribs get made into a great clear soup which is sweet/sour/spicy.

There's no single accepted transliteration protocol. Most people pronounce tod with a short or long 'O' when it's an 'au' or 'aw' vowel. Anyway....

You can get similar fare with chicken or fish, deep fried and smothered in delicious deep fried garlic. Usually the carts will also serve som tam. This tends to more of a cart w/ table setup rather than a simple and smaller more mobile operation.

Yup, tom graduk moo.

Boil water with salt. We add thickly sliced daikon and simmer for 10 minutes. Add graduk moo which has marinated in oyster sauce and smashed coursely cut garlic. Make sure to get all the sauce out of the bowl. Simmer for 10-15 minutes. Add 2-3 small cans of pickled mustard greens including the liquid. Continue to simmer for another 10 min.

Add lettuce (cabbage et al) and cilantro. Let wilt in the soup and serve.

There is no spice in this version but it is sweet and sour. Use ribs in 1" piece.

Not a lot of food, but a great crispy-garlicy-peppery appetizer that cries out for beer.

OK. So we'll need to get off the street and into what we have named, "building food". Or a street based restaurant (good description, it's mine now).

If anyone comes across a place serving graduk moo taut gratiem or tom graduk moo we'd sure appreciate the heads up.

We get around BKK but mostly stay around Saphan Sang Hee, Nonthaburi or Yaowarat Road. If you know places around there thanks.

Thanks for the info.

Where is Saphan Sang Hi? (I know where Saphan Sung is.)

There should be several hundred restaurants within a few Km of any single spot in Nonthaburi or Saphan Sung which serve these dishes. In Yoawarat, assuming during the evening, just head down any lane/alley and look for a vat of boiling oil, some tables and some fresh pork basking in the warm evening temperatures.

Thanks for your help. I'll look around.

Saphan Sang Hi or Google Translate (S̄a phān sạng ḥī̂). You really have to lay into the Heeeee....

Select Thai and listen:

http://translate.google.com/#auto/th...B8%B5%E0%B9%89


... is the Krung Thon Bridge across the Chao Phraya River on Ratchawihi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krung_Thon_Bridge

It's the old name, but people still use it in the area:

"Krung Thong Bridge has been known to locals as Sang Hi Bridge (Thai: สะพานซังฮี้, Saphan Sang Hi) since construction began, before it was officially christened, because it extends from Ratchawithi Road, formerly named Sang Hi Road."

We have stayed at the Royal River Hotel in the room that just about overhangs the river. Good place.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid...31051,0.038581

Full disclosure: After years, I still can not pronounce "Krung Thon" properly. So the taxi drivers look at me quizzically.

http://translate.google.com/#auto/th...B8%98%E0%B8%99

I'd be shocked if you can't find 15 or 20 restaurants within 1 Km of that location which would prepare this staple.

I am pretty sure there are a few places on the other (south) side of Ratchwithi/Srinthorn Road. I think I've been to a fish head (hua bah) restaurant over there on the surface road where the flyover/bridge road comes down. And I seem to remember several other eateries there as well.

This is a very common dish, but more popular in drinking type restaurants, beer gardens, younger/nightlife type places. If they serve appetizers the chances of finding it go way up. From trendy Thai restaurant areas to plastic chair tower of beer in the back parking lot types, or to go further into nightlife, Tawan Daeng, Goom Pow, Live music venues, and other assorted hole in the walls.
Good Luck


More likely TP means tom saep gradook moo ต้มแซบ

I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.
PS. Currently in BKK and amazed how much fresher and tastier the street food is here. Dinner tonight in Huay Kwang (out exit 4 do a uturn, on the first cross street the stands went on for 1/2 km.) was awesome!!!

I hadn't even thought about tom saep.... What can be better than a soup who's name is 'delicious soup'.

There is a similarly prepared � if by prepared we mean doused in flavor enhancer and white pepper, maybe some corn starch then dropped into a vat of hot, ancient cooking oil, along with mashed garlic cloves � delicacy called Bahk Bep Tot, or fried duck beaks.

Not a lot of meat, and tough to think about all those ducks waddling around unable to quack properly, but insanely tasty. To me it looks like the lower beak gets portioned into three or four strips, then dosed and fried.

http://xinfully.files.wordpress.com/...2/img_0633.jpg

Depending on the preparation these can be sublime, or 'gamey' and oily.

Maybe the beaks (or bills?) come from France....

We're in Nonthaburi now, eating well at 02.00 The best time and best food hour of the day. Without question, the best cooks are out in the markets well before 03.00.

Anyway... Sure wish someone could make my life easier by giving us the location of Thai deep fired ribs and the GPS coordinates.