How to pronounce Khanom bueang

Khanom bueang is written ขนมเบื้อง where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /kʰā.nǒm bɯ̂aŋ/. In plain English letters that is ka-NOM BUANG, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Khanom bueang?

Khanom bueang is a snack of Thailand. Where it comes from: Central Thailand. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are egg and rice. It tastes sweet.

Where Khanom bueang comes from

Khanom bueang is one of 35 signature dishes of Thailand on this map. See all dishes from Bangkok.

• Tom yum ต้มยำ · Soup & stew · Central Thailand

  The name joins two Thai words: tom, to boil, and yam, a mixed salad dressed sharply with lime, chilli and fish sauce.

• Pad thai ผัดไทย · Noodles & pasta · Bangkok

  Pad thai is younger than many people think.

• Green curry แกงเขียวหวาน · Main dish · Central Thailand

  Kaeng khiao wan, literally "sweet green curry", comes from central Thailand.

• Som tam ส้มตำ · Main dish · Isan

  Som tam means "pounded sour", and that is how it is made: shredded green papaya bruised in a clay mortar with garlic, chillies, lime, fish sauce and palm sugar.

• Khao soi ข้าวซอย · Noodles & pasta · Chiang Mai

  Khao soi is the noodle soup of northern Thailand: egg noodles in a coconut curry broth, topped with a nest of crispy fried noodles and served with pickled mustard greens, shallots and lime.

• Massaman curry แกงมัสมั่น · Main dish · Central Thailand

  Massaman curry is the Thai curry most marked by foreign trade.

Food of Thailand

Dishes like Khanom bueang in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Khanom bueang:

• Bánh căn · Snack · South Central Coast, Vietnam

  Bánh căn are small rice-flour cakes baked over charcoal in clay or cast-iron moulds with many round hollows.

• Kokis කොකිස් · Snack · All Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

  Kokis is a crisp, deep-fried Sri Lankan snack made by dipping a decorative mould, often shaped like a flower and called a kokis achchuwa, into a thick batter of rice flour, coconut milk and beaten egg, then into boiling coconut oil; halfway through, the kokis is shaken off the mould to finish frying.

• Iron egg 鐵蛋 · Snack · New Taipei, Taiwan

  Iron eggs are small eggs stewed in soy sauce and five-spice, then air-dried, again and again for about a week, until they shrink, turn almost black and become chewy and intensely flavoured.

• Gohei mochi 五平餅 · Snack · Chubu mountains (Nagano, Gifu, Aichi), Japan

  Gohei mochi is a grilled rice snack from the mountains of the Chubu region: the Kiso and Ina areas of Nagano, eastern Mino and Hida in Gifu, southern Toyama, and the hills of Aichi and Shizuoka.