Food and drinkcurry; a soupy dish eaten with rice noun
- gaeng mid
- Mid: level, in your normal speaking voice.
How to use it
แกงgaeng covers every curry and many soupy dishes eaten with rice, with or without coconut milk. At a curry-and-rice shop, ข้าวแกงkâao-gaeng, trays of curries wait behind glass: point at one or two and they're ladled over a plate of rice.
Even a mild clear soup is a แกงจืดgaeng-jùuet, a "bland curry". In slang, โดนแกงdoon gaeng, "to get curried", means to be pranked or tricked.
Other spellings you'll see
There's no single official way to write Thai in English letters. We mark the tone of every syllable; online you'll also find:
- kaeng
- gang
- kang
More food and drink in Thai
All food and drink- ข้าว kâao Rice
- ข้าวเหนียว kâao-nǐaw Sticky rice
- ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง kâao-nǐaw má-mûang Mango sticky rice
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