{"id":8388,"date":"2014-08-19T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2020-07-25T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T07:29:35","slug":"thai-omelet-kow-kai-jeeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/thai-omelet-kow-kai-jeeo","title":{"rendered":"Thai Omelet (Kow kai jeeo)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Thai-Omelet-with-Steamed-Rice-and-Ketchup-Kow-kai-jeeo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Thai-Omelet-with-Steamed-Rice-and-Ketchup-Kow-kai-jeeo-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Thai Omelet with Steamed Rice and Ketchup (Kow kai jeeo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Thai-Omelet-with-Steamed-Rice-and-Ketchup-Kow-kai-jeeo-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Thai-Omelet-with-Steamed-Rice-and-Ketchup-Kow-kai-jeeo.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This dish is exactly what you expect it to be. Believe it or not, omelets are popular food throughout the world, and in Thailand it\u2019s no different. If you\u2019re kids are being fussy eaters while you\u2019re on holiday, this is a great way to get them to eat as it\u2019s something they\u2019re almost certainly familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKow kai jeeo\u201d is just a simple omelet, mixed with tender pieces of pork (moo) or chicken (gai) and served over a plate of fine tasting jasmine rice. Drench the omelet with tomato ketchup, and there you go, a simple, easy meal that kids are guaranteed to love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where to Buy: <\/strong>Restaurants<\/p>\n<p><strong>Price: <\/strong>25-30 Baht<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Tip<\/strong>: When you ask for \u2018kow kai jeeo\u2019 add the word \u2018moo\u2019 on the end if you want pork, or \u2018gai\u2019 if you prefer chicken omelet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dish is exactly what you expect it to be. Believe it or not, omelets are popular food throughout the world, and in Thailand it\u2019s no different. If you\u2019re kids are being fussy eaters while you\u2019re on holiday, this is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[604],"tags":[806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11095,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangkokbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}