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.
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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