Bangkok Street Food Lunchtime at Drinks Stall

Many shake vendors offer sweet coconut drinks with an array of possible additions including: pearls of tapioca, black sesame seeds or jellied candies. In the heat of the day nothing is more refreshing that one of a fruit juice, freeze, or milkshake. You will find these sold at specialist street vendors for around 20-40 baht. Look out for brightly coloured, freshly squeezed Thai sweet orange juice (naam som) for 15-30 baht, or coconut water (naam ma-phrao), served from the coconut shell with lots of ice. Thais sometimes add salt or basil seeds to their juice, an acquired taste, try the strong sweet orange-coloured Thai iced tea (chaa yen served with or without condensed milk chaa dam yen to skip the milk). Tea without milk in general is referred to as Naam chaa, this means milk-less or black tea, even if its green (chaa khiao) Chinese style tea (chaa jiin) or Western-style black tea (chaa farang)