About Thai Food

Although Thailand's food has a reputation for being spicy, Thai food is a reality, including spicy, sour, sweet, salty and bitter tastes of balance. This goes beyond the simple combination of food in an individual taste, added in two or three different dishes taste the contrary, this is one reason, Thailand's market share, eating homemade food.

Thai food is one of the unique aspects of fresh herbs and spices, and fermented fish sauce in almost every dish, a potential problem for vegetarians use although the inclusion of "chaos" to indicate you are a vegetarian, a long way to go to go.

However, there are some regional differences in what is generally considered the Thai food, these are due to neighboring countries such as China, Laos, Myanmar, impact and Malaysia. Although some of the Thai restaurants in specific dishes professional, a great Thai and Western cuisine menu and prepare the whole of the Kingdom of Thai food.



Rice

Rice is the staple food of Thai people, most of the meals from breakfast to dessert. In fact, in Thai, if you say you are hungry, or you want to eat you literally "I want to eat." It should not be surprising to learn, then, Thailand is the world's largest rice exporter, Thai rice, including more than one, each with its own characteristics and flavor.

Thai rice is the most respected rice, long grain rice is a native of Hong Thai. Served as bread, rice, jasmine rice is the best to accompany most dishes, including Thai curry.

Although rice is the most coveted, it is also the most expensive. Therefore, most restaurants, test Suoy, "beautiful rice", a common white variety grown in abundance, and main course with all the style of food.

Test pad or "fried rice" is used pork, chicken, fried peppers and fish sauce, often with leftover test Suoy, so as not to waste the rest of the rice is "outdated."

Examination Tom is a popular breakfast dish, cooked salty porridge-like soup or pork and garlic.

Test Niaw, "sticky rice" is a hand to eat, the impact of the Northeast, such as baked chicken (Gai Yang) and the spicy papaya salad (Som Tam), food supply, however, Thai sticky rice is the favorite dessert of key components, sticky rice and mangoes.



Mains

While the pasta dishes are very common in Thailand (caused by the influence of Chinese immigrants) is the most Thai fried or grilled and steamed rice. Fish (nonsense), pork (Wu), beef (anger), chicken (covered) are prepared in different ways, but usually cut into bite-size pieces, stir up all kinds of spices such as garlic, pepper, cut fried / or basil. Often grilled fish and chicken or fried fish cooked, and played a typical whole.



Thai curry and soup

As Thai food is usually family-style service, with all the diners to share the main course, Thai curry or soup is usually ordered with a meal. Each very different Thai curry consistency, it can be said for some curry soup category. However, most Thai curry is a coconut milk-based, some are spicy than others. Qiang Massaman, is a moderate, peanut, potato curry; Qiang Kiaw million (Thai green curry) is a medium thickness and spicy curry, and Qiang Ling (red curry), otherwise Geng pets (spicy curry), known is a thin clear spicy choice. Tang Li, mild coconut soup, soup and curry blur the lines, and Tom Yum Goong, a typical Thai soup, often brilliant heat.

Although Thai curry is a common and easily mean more than rice, soup is the service and to accept communal bowl of small diners to eat out. Although some can not soup curry and vegetarian meat supply, many Thai cooks the fish sauce in all dishes is the Thai salt substitute.



Thai noodles

With the typical Thai food, this is the consumption of public services, the majority of Thai noodle dishes as individual dishes. Although some restaurants will be the Thai noodle dishes, especially the pad Thai noodles, noodle stalls in the streets more often and services specialized in Thai food to eat noodles. Thai noodles come in the shape and size, including the "small" (sen lek) a wide variety of "big" (Xian Ai), angel hair (Sin Mei) and X Large (gway tiow). Most of Thailand is rice noodles, although the egg noodles (BA eyebrow) and mung bean glass noodles are also common.

Pad Thai noodles than the other, anti-radiation NAA and gway tiow is mixing with the beef, chicken, pork, or served on fried noodles, condiments, including chili, fish sauce, vinegar, sugar, can be used to meet the tastes of individual patrons.

Otherwise, usually as a Thai noodle soup, or pork with red chili (Mao Teng), chicken bones (), the occasional pig blood to clot. Unlike most Thai food, which is eaten with a fork and spoon to eat Thai noodles with chopsticks and spoons are usually, a pair of Chinese cuisine reflects.



Thai Desserts

You may not know many Thai people look at thin waste line, but the Thai people like to eat sweets. This includes both the traditional Thai desserts, as well as western fare, including cake and ice cream. The traditional Thai desserts are very sweet varieties made from a variety of different combinations of rice, coconut milk and sugar, some seemingly less common dessert ingredients, such as sweet corn or string beans. According to trace the history of Thai dessert of Portuguese missionaries, some eggs (who also introduced the pepper! While these desserts are not prominent features in the Thai restaurant menus and less frequently at the end of a meal order), they occasionally or on the road as complimentarily side stands, in particular special desserts for sale.

Fruit is also a common Thai dessert, usually served plain, and slice, even though the mango sticky rice, sweet coconut milk is a popular dessert covered mango when in season.



Thai Salad or Yam

Thailand is a salad and spicy Thai food is often one of the most often as a common dish in many a meal order. Usually a Thai salad with chilli, lime and fish sauce mixed raw vegetables, although some, such as shade wrath (Thai beef salad), containing meat.

The most internationally recognized Thai salad, Tan Johnson is technically an old vegetable origin, is the most northeastern part of Thailand, there is a popular way to vent on a reality without the knowledge of visitors not accustomed to spicy Thai food prepared raging stomach. Som Tam papaya include silk, and often with grilled chicken (Gai Yang served).

Yam som o, is a more modest salad is pommels, like fruit, but not acid ratio, a grapefruit. Yam Som - O general delivery shredded chicken.

Other salads include vaginal angry, Thai beef salad, tomato and onion services, and shade Wonsan, glass noodles, shrimp salad.



Thai meals do not include technically own appetizers, all the dishes are arranged in an incoming customers, share them, because they arrive in random order. However, there are some finger food style meals can be classified as an appetizer dishes. Satay (BBQ on a stick) and the spring roll is one of the most common technology in many streets and provided the former Thai dishes as appetizers instead.



Source or paste

Thai chili sauce, or South prik, the foundation of many Thai dishes, but it changes in services for bargain hunting. Thai chili paste is muddling along pepper, garlic, shrimp paste, lime and other spices (depending on region of origin). As a fall, as raw material supply of vegetables, and occasionally pork rind.



Thai fruits

Thailand is undoubtedly the fruit of a nation, fruit vendors selling fruit on street corners throughout the Kingdom of dozens of different cold storage, sale section ponelamai (fruit) as low as 10 baht each. Thailand, including the familiar fruit: banana, pineapple, watermelon, papaya, and the exotic: dragon fruit, chompu, durian and jackfruit.

Pitaya is a large, see more fruit, pink uneven skin, although appearance following is a luxury like a round white meat tender, juicy kiwi fruit. Chompu is a fresh pear-shaped fruit, tastes like apple watery stuff. The pungent smell of durian, jack fruit, its sleek cousin needs of acquired palate, its flavor and some other people abuse, in fact, so strong is the taste of durian, it is not when I see "No Durian" signs in respect texture in many buildings!

Ripe mango has been providing services and immature and extremely juicy tart, taste, Thailand, the general equilibrium mixture of sugar and chili dipping.

Exotic Thai literally dozens of other fruits, can be seasonal, always at reasonable prices. Purchase and share with friends, they make the economic and health snacks.



Thai beer and beverages

The tap water is generally not recommended for human consumption, the ice is generally safe in Thailand and bottled water is ubiquitous and cheap. If you worry, you can always beer in Thailand, and Thailand, its nearly as cheap high-alcohol content of beer a guarantee that any bacteria are not likely to survive, lion (pronounced "star") and Zhang (the elephants) Two the most popular.

Fruit smoothies and juices are very popular: fruit juice and fresh fruit and sugar and syrup made of ice is safe for consumption generally mixed. Coconut milk is another safe option is from the top of the coconut cracked open and served the whole straw.

Thai iced tea is served on condensed milk, which makes it a sweet taste of orange and pink. Thai iced coffee (oliang) is a powerful black to pick me up, much better than Nestle is often used as "coffee at the many restaurants" services. Otherwise, throughout the UK, many Starbucks in particular, in Bangkok, if you really need a quick coffee fix.

Finally, the invention of Red Bull energy drink in Thailand, can be 7-11 and mom and pop minimarts the purchase of 10 baht. There are other local brands, but the taste and performance are very different.



Thai Food Specialties

Although the "Thai food" gained international recognition, Thai cuisine, is breaking from its origins in the region. The development of different regions of Thailand have their own style, as dishes are different from other parts of different responsibilities. Thai food from Issarn in northeastern Thailand, Laos from neighboring countries share many similarities with the food, although dishes such as Som Tam, Thailand's version of chili is a big weight. South on the other hand curry is not spicy, with greater impact in Malaysia, more features, and coconut and turmeric. Despite the Thai people like to fish either from rivers or the ocean, beaches, Thailand is the main destination for the best sample Thai seafood dishes.

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