This grilled-pork breakfast is so popular that the best-known stalls routinely sell out before 9am.
Pork is marinated in garlic, soy sauce, coconut milk, and palm sugar, then grilled slowly over charcoal and sliced thin over a plate of rice. It's served with pickled carrots and daikon, a light pork broth, and a sweet-sour dipping sauce, almost always eaten before mid-morning.
Why it's made this way: As a cheap, portable, high-energy meal that could be grilled quickly at dawn and eaten before the day's work began, it became the default breakfast at markets and roadside stalls across the country.
Roughly what's in it
500kcal
25gprotein
60gcarbs
18gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.