Khanom_Tokyo

Khanom Tokyo

Khanom Tokyo

Thai street food


Khanom Tokyo or Khanom Tokiao (Thai: ขนมโตเกียว, RTGS: khanom tokiao, pronounced [kʰā.nǒm tōː.kīa̯w]) is a Thai street snack. It is a thin flat pancake filled with sweet custard cream. Some have a savory filling, like pork or sausage.

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Khanom Tokyo with hot dogs during a fruit festival in Uttaradit, Thailand.

History

The snack is believed to have been sold for the first time in 1967 at a Japanese department store in Bangkok, named Thai-Daimaru (タイ大丸), and is said to be a Thai adaptation of the Japanese dorayaki.[1][2]

The snack can have either sweet or savory fillings. In the Thai language, khanom means "snack" or "sweet". The name Tokyo is taken from the capital of Japan. Although the name of this snack suggests a Japanese origin, in reality it is a Thai invention.[1]

Ingredients

The batter is made from egg, wheat flour, sugar, fresh milk, baking soda. The fillings are usually sweet: vanilla cream, taro, pandan cream, various fruit jams, shredded coconut, cocoa powder etc. Often fillings are somewhat sweet but always mixed with something salty such as quail eggs or small sausages.[3]


References

  1. Taey Ch (2017-09-26). "ประวัติ 7 อาหารไทยชื่อต่างประเทศ ชื่อนี้มาจากไหน??". Mango Zero (in Thai). Bangkok: The Zero Publishing. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  2. Sereemongkonpol, Pornchai (2016-03-04). "Throw out the cookbook". Guru. Bangkok Post. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
  3. ศรีโช, สิทธิโชค (September 2016). "ไทยแลนด์โอนลี่ 8 อาหารญี่ปุ่นเหล่านี้มีเฉพาะเมืองไทย!". SPECIAL SCOOP. HEALTH & CUISINE ปีที่ 16 (in Thai). Vol. 188. p. 32.

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