This is Yen Ta Fo (Pink Noodle Soup), a popular street food in Thailand. It’s often viciously spicy yet tangy and subtly sweet and pretty much always has some sort of seafood in it (usually shrimp, fish cake, octopus etc.), as well as some sort of meat, with coagulated pork blood being a rather popular choice (the version in the picture has fried tofu instead). So pretty much the Thai version of a seafood boil.
I always though it looks like something aliens might eat and it tends to look rather offensive to western tastes, but done well, it’s actually quite good.
It looks like as if you explained a low-country boil to an alien.
“Arthropods, tubers and pig flesh encased in tubing. Got it.”
LOL, you just reminded me that this dish exists:
This is Yen Ta Fo (Pink Noodle Soup), a popular street food in Thailand. It’s often viciously spicy yet tangy and subtly sweet and pretty much always has some sort of seafood in it (usually shrimp, fish cake, octopus etc.), as well as some sort of meat, with coagulated pork blood being a rather popular choice (the version in the picture has fried tofu instead). So pretty much the Thai version of a seafood boil.
I always though it looks like something aliens might eat and it tends to look rather offensive to western tastes, but done well, it’s actually quite good.