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Mixed Tropical Fruit

Breakfast

I started the day off with a giant plate of fruit, including papaya, pineapple, dragonfruit and a banana. Thailand has an incredible selection of tropical fruit and they should all be taken advantage of.

Jay Jay Vegetarian Center

Kanom Jeen Nam Ya Kati

Lunch / Dinner

A gigantic mid afternoon lunch was actually enough food to carry me over through the rest of the day.

I went to Jay Jay Vegetarian Food Center located on Phet Kasem Soi 65. It’s a temple that doubles as a vegetarian restaurant.

Being a holiday weekend, the restaurant wasn’t actually open, but they did manage to scrape up a lot of food for us. After hearing that I was going write an article about them, they ran around the kitchen, coming out with so many dishes I almost couldn’t eat it all.

Needless to say, I ate a ton of food (restaurant review plus a live video coming soon!).

Here are just a few of the glorious dishes:

• Pad pak bung fai daeng – stir fried morning glory
• Tom jap chai – herbal soup made with lots of vegetables
• Nam prik noom – raw vegetables served with a sauce
• Tom yum jay – vegetarian sour spicy soup
• Kanom jeen nam ya (bottom) – soft rice noodles with coconut curry and vegetables