Ruam Mit is a popular Thai dessert made with coconut milk and a mixed treat of tapioca balls, sweet potato chunks, corn, red beans, lotus roots and gelatine strips in different shapes, sizes and colours.
Each bowl typically includes starchy noodles that are flavoured and coloured with various ingredients, and which may come in the shape of thin strips or more elaborate decorative forms.
There is no set recipe for ruam mit, so each cook or street vendor adds their own ingredients to the mix. It is often consumed as a cool refreshment on hot summer days, topped with shaved ice. In Thailand, it is one of the cheapest desserts, and each bowl typically costs around 30 baht.
Interestingly, in Thai language, ruam means get together, and mit refers to friends, so it can be said that ruam mit is a meeting of many desserts in one simple, flavourful dish.
July 2023.
