Many healthy eaters are worried about their meal options when travelling. Many even stay back from visiting certain destinations due to lack of healthy eating options to suit different their budgets. On that note, the Metropolitan, Bangkok is a premium choice for healthy eating with a restaurant that has earned its position in world’s best restaurants and Asia’s 50 best restaurants. It is a wonderful experience to compliment your list of places for hotel dining, Bangkok.

Thai cuisine is a popular cuisine around the world. It is much varied from sweet, spicy, fresh, processed and sometimes greasy. Conventional Thai food is known to be healthy with natural and fresh spices, ingredients and add-ons. However, some Thai dishes contain too much sugar, oil or calories even though they taste amazing.

However, Som Tam is a healthy dish that you can depend on when you visit Bangkok. It is a dish that is widely available almost anywhere. In fact, it is green papaya salad that includes many other fresh vegetables like string beans and tomatoes. You can also find many variations of it with added fish sauce. Moreover, it tastes really good when had along with Thai sticky rice.

Furthermore, Pad Pak Bung Fai Daeng is another popular vegetable dish that can be an option for healthy eating while in Bangkok. This is a dish that you can find in any street food stall that sells tir fry dishes. It is made by stir frying a green stalked vegetable and adding some soy bean sauce or oyster sauce for seasoning.

Pad Pak Gachet is also a tasty stir fry dish. The specialty of this dish lies in its tough chewy texture. Usually a hard vegetable is stir fried with garlic, chillies and differently flavoured sauces to give it a distinctive taste. Nam Prik and Gaeng Liang are also other tasty dishes that you can try if you are conscious about healthy eating while in Bangkok.
Don’t forget to try these dishes from various places to enjoy different tastes!

Pushpitha Wijesinghe is an experienced independent freelance writer. He specializes in providing a wide variety of content and articles related to the travel hospitality industry.

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