Thai Oyster Omelet at Nai Mong Hoy Tod (นายหมงหอยทอด)

Nai Mong Hoy Tod (นายหมงหอยทอด) is a famous restaurant in Bangkok to eat a Thai oyster omelet known as hoy tod (หอยทอด).

Hoy tod (หอยทอด also spelled hoi tod sometimes) is a very popular Thai street food dish, that's basically a shellfish omelet. Though it does include egg, it also usually includes some batter as well, so I actually personally think of it more as a pancake than a full egg omelet. Anyway, it's a famous Thai dish, especially as a tasty snack. There are many places throughout Bangkok to try hoy tod (หอยทอด), and one of the most well known is Nai Mong Hoy Tod (นายหมงหอยทอด), located in Bangkok's Chinatown, or Yaowarat.

There are two different versions that you can order, hoy malang poo tod (หอยแมลงภู่ทอด (กรอบ) is their version of an omelet with mussels in it, and hoy nang rom tod (อ่อลั่วะ หอยนางรมทอด (กรอบ) is with oysters. Now that's a pretty tough decision for you and I to make as food lovers, so it's best to just not make the decision at all, and order both of them. That's what I had to do. However, after eating them both, I can quite safely say that the oyster version was definitely better tasting in my opinion.

Anyway, at Nai Mong Hoy Tod (นายหมงหอยทอด), they use some serious oil for their cooking. And I don't think it's just some light veggie oil, it's some heavy pork lard. So this is far from being a healthy hoy tod (หอยทอด), but it's a treat to enjoy on occasion. One of the cool things is this restaurant in Bangkok has a customized kitchen with a heavy iron griddle that sits above a grill of hot charcoal - so they still use charcoal for cooking. The flames are always lit high, and there's a fan that blows the flames bigger when they really need to crispify the batter. So they start off by heating a spoon of oil on the pan. Then a mixture of batter, which I believe is made from sticky rice, is poured onto the griddle. After that's mixed up for a few minutes, in goes an egg, which is swirled around for awhile. The mussels version of the Thai omelet included the mussels within the batter. It was served over a small bed of bean sprouts, sort of to cradle it and maybe soak up a bit of the extra oil. The Thai oyster omelet (hoy tod) included a crispy fried pancake of dough set on a plate and the oysters, in a gravy type of sauce, placed over the pancake.

The omelet pancakes were insanely crispy, and wow were they filled with extreme flavor. I liked mine with a sprinkle of pepper all over it, and many Thais also enjoy eating hoy tod (หอยทอด) along with sauce prik, which is like tangy tomato ketchup. Overall, and if I go back, I would definitely prefer the oyster omelet version over the mussels version. They were both insanely greasy, but indeed they were insanely tasty as well. If you're up for a greasy Thai street food snack when you're walking around Chinatown in Bangkok, you might check them out.

Nai Mong Hoy Tod (นายหมงหอยทอด)
Address: 539 Thanon Phlap Phla Chai, Bombrab Sathupai, Bangkok
Open from 10:30 am - 9 pm everyday
Phone number: 08-9773-3133, 02-623-1890
Prices: 70 THB per dish
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โทร. 08-9773-3133, 02-623-1890
เปิดบริการทุกวัน 10.30 - 21.00 น.

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