Saturday, March 30, 2013

Tour of Taste (5) : Thailand





Blending several Southeast Asian traditions’ elements, Thai cooking emphasizes on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components. Thai cuisine is well known with it spiciness. As with other Asian cuisines, balance, detail and variety are of great significance to Thai chefs. Thai food is known for its balance of three to four fundamental taste senses in each dish or the overall meal, which are sour, sweet, salty, and bitter.

 Pad Thai

The quintessential Thai dish that is often ruined in restaurants around the world as they standardize it to the point where it becomes generic. When you veer out of the tourist destinations, it’s easy to find this dish in Thailand.  Pad Thai may be standard fair but it is so good.



Kai Jeow

This Thai omelette is made from egg mixed with fish sauce and chilies, cooked in oil, served with white rice and slathered in sweet chili sauce. It is hard to believe that egg, rice, and sweet chili sauce would taste such great. It’s the breakfast of champions.



Pad Kra Pao

Pad Kra Pao is a minced pork or chicken stir fried with basil, chilies and served over rice. It’s a common dish but try buying it from the night markets and street stalls where they tend to mince and chop the meat a little finer than in restaurants.



Som Tam

This dish is a staple of Thai cuisine and you can’t throw a stone without hitting a dozen som tam sellers. Shaved papaya is tossed in a mortar and pestles other ingredients, includes carrots, peanuts, tomatoes, string beans, palm sugar, fish sauce, and a whole lot of chilies. It is as delicious and amazing as it is fiery. You want to stop eating it but you can’t.



Tom Yum

Tom yum soup is a spicy clear soup that will burn the roof of your mouth off. Tom yum is characterized by its distinct hot and sour flavor. The basic broth consists of stock, lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves, lime juice, fish sauce and crushed chili peppers. Then add the meat of choice, though the most popular is Tom Yum Kung (Shrimp).



Mango Sticky Rice

This delicious dish made from sweet mangos, sticky rice and coconut cream syrup. It’s incredibly sweet and the mango and cream sauce that is used makes it a great snack or dessert.



Banana Pancakes

This dish is actually found in a lot of every Thai food markets and many backpackers love it very much. Fried dough filled with bananas and topped with sugar and condensed milk or chocolate sauce, this is a sweet explosion in your mouth.



Cha Manao 

Cha Manao is a Thai iced tea. This dark tea mixed with sugar and limes is sweet, delicious, and just a little tart. 



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