Today, we visited Super Moo restaurant. Super Moo restaurant is a popular breakfast place in Khon Kaen and if you are able to read Thai, you would see that it’s signboard says “Vietnamese food”. You might be wondering why would anyone eat Vietnamese food when you are in Thailand, but don’t be fooled by the word “Vietnamese”.
The Khay Kra Ta, or eggs in a pan” is the local Isan breakfast. You will be served two whole eggs which are cooked to perfection - not too runny and not too dry - and it is cooked with sliced sausages that are Ubon Ratchathani’s specialty sweet Chinese sausage to give it that extra flavour. Just like any other Thai dish, you add your own seasoning. It is usually topped with chilli sauce and ketchup, as well as a pinch of pepper and Maggi sauce.
Khay Kra Ta
Next, we have Isan’s “Vietnamese bread”. It might remind you of a smaller version of the Vietnamese Bahn Mi. However, instead of the ingredients you find in Bahn Mi, the Isan bread is stuffed with Isan sausages. This breakfast set might remind you of the Turkish Menemen, or the Shakshouka from the Middle East. To complete your Isan breakfast, order a cup of hot coffee or Thai tea and enjoy your meal!
You might wonder, why is a Vietnamese food a local Isan food? When the French colonised Vietnam, it also colonised Laos. As the Vietnamese and Laotians learned to make the Baguette from the French, they modified the ingredients to make it best for them. As Isan is on the border with Laos, the bread making knowledge was passed from Laos to Isan, and with that, the local Isan breakfast of eggs in a pan and Vietnamese bread was born!
