I don’t consider myself a specialist in finding Russian food in Thailand, or at least familiar products, because I don’t really need it yet. Well, I do not feel longing for all sorts of sauerkraut, cucumbers and herring. Maybe because more than six months have never lived in Tae? And you just have to stay here much longer in order to start beckoning to our native food ... But since we periodically buy something here in supermarkets out of habit or just like that, we still have some experience. I'll tell you about this..
Other posts about food in Thailand:
Thai cafes and makashniki
Thai supermarkets
Thai Markets
How to feed a child in Thailand
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) and GMO foods in Thailand
If you go into a supermarket and look carefully for something, there are very many chances that you will be able to find something. It's not a fact that you will like the price, but if you just wanted to remember the taste, then why not buy it sometimes. Personally, for all my visits to Tai, I have not come up with anything that is not here, but I would very much like to. Perhaps only pumpkin seed oil is not enough, and that is not for us, but for Egor ... I’ll go through the points that, it seems to me, are needed by the majority. If you forgot something or wrote something wrong, we will discuss it in the comments..
The content of the article
- one Black bread
- 2 Cheese
- 3 Yoghurts
- 4 Sour cream, cottage cheese and kefir
- five Pasta
- 6 Wheat flour
- 7 Herring and salted fish
- eight Potatoes, onions, carrots
- nine Tea
- 10 Specific
- eleven Rest
Black bread
There is both white and black bread. But in my opinion, it is not very similar to the familiar to everyone Darnitsky or Borodinsky. Rather, something like 8 cereals or so. The price for a bun from the oven is somewhere around 100 baht. Sold in all major supermarkets such as Tesco, Big C, Villa Market, Tops Market, etc. It is made locally, and depending on the specific bakery, there will be different varieties of it. I know there is a small private bakery on Koh Samui that sells yeast-free bread. There are plenty of other bakery products here: muffins, croissants, donuts, etc..
Almost black bread
There is also imported vacuum-packed bread stored in the refrigerator, the price is about 120-180 baht for a heavy pack. Pretty tasty for me, but not quite right either..
Delicious imported bread in a package of 170 baht for 500 gr.
My favorite cupcakes - 50-70 baht
Daily sale of all kinds of croissants
Cheese
Once upon a time, I wrote that cheese is very expensive here, but times are changing. Now I see that he stands, as in Russia. Prices start at around 300 baht / kg for Macro and 500 baht / kg for Tesco and BigC. And if Macro has something to choose from, then in the rest the choice is not very large for this money - Edam, Gouda, Mozzarella. By the way, it is Mozzarella in Macro that is the cheapest, only it is not classic white, but solid white and yellow. All sorts of Grueres and blue cheeses at a price close to 700-1000 baht per 1 kg. But in fairness I will add, many of these varieties and we have the same price. It is clear that there is no cheap Russian / Poshekhonsky for 250 rubles / kg, but it seems to be not very edible. And we bought Camembert for 245 baht one circle 350g, which means 700 baht / kg.
In Macro Mozzarela 359 baht / kg, Brie 587 baht / kg, with green mold 476 baht / kg
Mozzarella for 560 baht / kg and Gouda for 540 baht / kg in Big C
Cheese is more expensive in BigC - the price is approaching 1000 baht / kg
Camembert cheeses to choose from at BigC
Yoghurts
Spoonable yoghurts are sold everywhere, even in minimarkets 711, including Activia. All of them are of local production, but there are also more expensive imported ones. My favorite is coconut yogurt. And drinking yoghurts are not at all like those we are used to, although not everyone thinks so. I'm used to thick drinks like Activia or Miracle, but here are some fruity liquid drinks instead, brrr ...
Thai yoghurts in jars, green - with coconut
Imported yoghurts in large jars
Drinking yoghurt is the best, but still not the same
I noticed that all non-fruit yoghurts are sweet for some reason, although classic yoghurt should not be sweet at all, like sour cream. These are the unsweetened yoghurts you should look for in separate shops. For example, on Koh Samui - this is Home made yougurt on Maenam near the turn to Lompraya pier (50 m from the turn). You can find out by the old pickup with the Yougurt sign, which is always parked by the road..
Pickup to mark a shop with Hand made yoghurts
Sour cream, cottage cheese and kefir
You should look for imported cottage cheese in Taia. And since abroad it is usually called cheese, the inscription on the can should be Cheese (English) or Fromage (French). This curd will look like curd paste, as if ordinary curd was mixed with sour cream and mixed with a blender. There is also sour cream, you just need to look for it. It's called Sour Cream. Also, some yoghurts look like her..
Cottage cheese - cottage cheese, Sour Cream - sour cream
Fromage - French curd
Someone wrote to me that they saw kefir in Tesco or Big C, but I did not find it. In general, cottage cheese / kefir can be made by yourself, with the help of milk and kefir mushrooms. Actually, in some cities there are shops that sell it ready-made..
Pasta
It seems to be not a very necessary thing, but just in case I will write. The most common wheat pasta is here, both spaghetti and horns, prices from 30 baht per pack. Rice noodles are also naturally present.
All sorts of different pasta - from 30-40 baht
Wheat flour
What Russian doesn't like pancakes? So the easiest way to make them is from flour, isn't it. The flour is sold in supermarkets and is called Bread Flour or Cake Flour. Along with it, you can easily buy Rice Flour and corn flour. You need to look for all this in the department where salt is sold and monosodium glutamate.
Wheat Flour - Bread Flour
Rice Flour - Rice Flour
Herring and salted fish
I saw only imported herring ready to eat in cans of 150 baht. I met the usual red fish by chance, literally a couple of options in the form of slicing for 300 baht, that is, it is also not cheap. In general, the easiest way is to buy fish and salt it yourself..
Imported herring
Potatoes, onions, carrots
Sold everywhere, in supermarkets and markets. Prices in Big C are shown in the photo, there is nothing much to add.
Potatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini
Tea
In Thailand, tea is not particularly drunk, so there is not such a variety as ours, and it is mainly sold in bags in supermarkets. There is a perception that green tea is expensive here, but I found a couple of budget options sold in any store. This is green tea with jasmine, which I usually drink and always. A pack costs around 35 baht, quite a good price. Also in the north of Thailand, I bought the most beautiful Oolong tea at about the same price, it was sold in the local market on the way to the highest mountain Doi inthanon. I think you can get it elsewhere in the markets. Tea will most likely be Chinese.
Inexpensive green tea with jasmine for 35 baht
Specific
Unfortunately, I do not have photos from other supermarkets, but only from Tesco and Big C, which can be found in almost every city. And if the city is very large, then there will be even more shops, and therefore imports. In the same Villa Market, in general, there is a lot of things, for example, we found for ourselves our favorite Quinoa groats and gluten-free products for Egor (somehow we will have to try the diet again). But if, after all, the city is not very large, then there is a direct road to small Natural Food stores, which are in any resort place where there is a large concentration of Europeans.
Chia and flax seeds in Natural Food at 595 and 240 baht per 500 grams, respectively
Flaxseed oil and sesame seeds in Natural Food for 700 and 650 baht, respectively
Flax seeds are not always found in Big C
Couscous and Lentils in Big C
Rest
Here are a few more photos of different food in supermarkets. There is already everything that is easy to find, without any preliminary preparation. Well, maybe you won't find the oatmeal right away. Usually it is represented by 1-2 manufacturers and is sold where muesli.
Oatmeal 50 baht per 500 gr
Olives, pickled cucumbers, peas
Regular cow's milk 40-50 baht / l
Meat products
Eggs for 50 baht, and there are quail for 30 baht
Seafood
Advertising of kvass Twice Ice, but did not see it on sale
100 grams of normal chocolate costs about 80-120 baht
Well, for those who are too lazy to look for something, invent (cottage cheese, for example), and cook on their own, all that remains is to find a Russian cafe, where everything has already been done for you..
Russian cafe on Samsui
Another Russian cafe on Koh Samui
P.S. To be honest, I am a little ashamed for such a billboard in the last photo. As if the Russians don't need anything except vodka. What an idiotic image that we ourselves support?
