Brighton food truck featured in new Lonely Planet book

ThaiAngle, which is currently located at Churchill Square, is one of 80 food businesses that have been included in Around the World in 80 Food Trucks.

Owner Nic Eadie started up his business in 2014, inspired by travelling around Thailand and living there for three years. In fact, he says he can remember the exact moment he fell in love with Thai food.

“I had never eaten Thai food before,” he said. “Now it is very well established and there are lots of Thai restaurants, but back then there really was not very much. It was still a specialist cuisine.

“I landed in Bangkok in the morning and headed down to the backpacking area Khao San Road. I had a green curry and pad Thai at just gone 8am and I immediately fell in love with it. I fell in love with the country and the food.”

Some 20 years later, these are now the most popular dishes at his vintage 1957 split-screen Citroën H food truck.

‘My food is better than this’

After living in Thailand, where he spent time working on the Burmese/Thai border helping refugees, Nic came back to Brighton to complete a Masters at the University of Sussex.

“I had been eating Thai food three meals a day so I decided to learn how to cook it properly,” the 43-year-old explains.

But then this newly found skill turned into something much more.

He said: “Whenever I went to a festival I could not find decent Thai food. And then I was going to Thai restaurants and thinking ‘my food is better than this’.

“I am a nightmare to go out with as I always think I could do a better job,” he laughs.