Top 10 Thai School Lunches     
 
Written by Richard Barrow          

The poll for the best Thai School Lunch has now closed. A total of 646 students between the ages of 10 and 15 voted for their favourite lunch from a list of 20 meals. Here is the list:


Fried Chicken on Rice & Egg Noodle Soup
(1) Fried Chicken on rice - khao mun gai tod (16%)
(2) Egg noodle soup with wonton - ba mee (14%)
(3) Boiled Chicken on rice - khao mun gai (12%)
(4) Lemon Grass Soup with Chicken - tom yum gai (7%)
(5) Macaroni Soup (6%)
(6) Fried Basil and Pork on rice - gra prao moo (5%)
(7) Fried Rice with cocktail sausages - khap pat kai sai grok (4%)
(8) Noodles and Pork in thick gravy - rat naa (4%)
(9) Greeny Curry with pork and bamboo shoots - gang gai sai noh mai(3%)
(10) Red Pork on rice - khao moo daeng (3%)


Lemon Grass Soup & Fried Basil and Pork
School lunch tomorrow is one of my favourites, green curry with bamboo shoots. This came in at number 9 on the list. Surprisingly, one of my other favourites didn't get onto the Top 10. This is Fried chilli with pork and long-beans which only pulled in 2% of the vote. What about your favourties? Are they in the top 10?    


School Lunch Menu     
 
Written by Richard Barrow          


Tom Yum Gai - Lemon Grass Soup with Chicken
Today I am giving you the full menu for our school lunches. This is what the students eat over a four week period. There are actually three different menus: kindergarten, junior school and senior school. As there are some repeats I will just give you the menu for the older students. Not everyone eats the same thing at the same time. There are 1,800 students (and one small kitchen) so not everyone can have a rice based meal at the same time. So, half of the school have rice while the other half have some kind of soup. I will show you the kitchen and rice-cookers later.


Khao Mun Gai Tod - Fried Chicken on Rice
The following is the menu for the senior school:
Fried chicken with rice
Green curry with pork + cucumber with egg
Fried pork and basil on rice + chicken with fried garlic
Egg noodle soup with wonton
Rice porridge with pork
Macaroni soup
Fried rice with egg and mini sausages
Lemon grass soup with chicken + bamboo shoots with egg
Fried chicken basil + Tang-lan soup
Stir fried bamboo + Chinese sausage
Fried pork basil + omelet
Chicken curry with bamboo shoots + stir-fried cabbage
Fried thick noodle in soy source
Fried chilli with pork and long-beans + fried sausage
Noodle soup with steamed pork
Rice porridge with chicken
Orange curry + omelet
Chicken on rice
Noodles in thick gravy
Red pork with rice
I think my favourites out of this are: lemon grass soup (tom yum gai), fried chicken with rice (khao mun gai tod), egg noodle soup with wonton (ba mee nam), green curry with pork (gang kee-o waen moo), chicken curry with bamboo shoots (gang gai sai noh mai) and probably quite a few others. Before I give you the Top 10 School Lunches as voted by the students, what do you think will be their favourite meals?