Food and drink โรตี roo-dtii
roti (fried flatbread) noun
- roo mid
- dtii mid
- Mid: level, in your normal speaking voice.
How to use it
Thin, stretchy dough fried on a hot griddle until crisp, from the Muslim kitchens of the South. Night-market carts fill it with banana and egg, fold it into squares and drizzle it with sweetened condensed milk and sugar.
In the South, roti is also breakfast, torn and dipped in curry: โรตีแกงroo-dtii gaeng.
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:
- roti
- rotee
- ro tee
- rotii
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