Thailand is a country that is better to explore with all senses – especially if your taste buds! As Thais love their food. And if you have a language adventurous, then you will appreciate the variety, Thai cuisine has to offer.
The most popular Thai dishes
Some of the most popular dishes of foreign visitors to Thailand Pad Thai (fried dough), Tom Yam Kung (spicy shrimp soup), Ka Gai (chicken curry with TomCoconut milk) and Massaman Curry (a specialty of southern Thailand).
Ingredients of Thai cuisine
The most evocative part of Thai cuisine is paprika. Although there is no genuine Thai ingredients – just live in Thailand has introduced a couple of hundred years ago by Portuguese traders brought from South America – is difficult to imagine today, Thai cuisine without chili.
Fortunately for you, who know many people today, Thaithat Westerners prefer a more delicate flavor, and often have difficulty facing a real thai seasoning and cook "PED never" (not hot), if cooking for Americans or European tourists.
coconut milk is another popular ingredient. E 'managed to press the flesh with coconut water and a meal is a nice, sweet, sweet spice that balances around.
Lemon Grass is also an ingredient in common use, because it makes a delicious fresh taste a dish.Various types of herbs like Thai basil, ginger, galangal, turmeric and coriander are used frequently. Note that in Thai cooking, herbs are almost always used fresh, not dried. This is partly because fresh herbs for the body down over the dried herbs, fresh, often "tend thermal properties.
Eating in Thailand: a common experience
There is a clear difference between the eating habits of Thai people and people of European descent or American.Westerners tend to order separate kitchen, even when eating together. Thai people on the other side by some judges, who are then placed on the table. Everyone receives his plate of rice, and then everyone eats this food plate load. It is not usual to load your own food on the table. Instead, you still take a spoonful from the common dish, mix it with some rice and eat and take a spoonful from the shared disks. Loading on foodYour applies on flat as rude for Thai people.
Vegetarian food in Thailand?
Many people have the impression that Thailand is a country where there are many vegetarian. However, this is not the case. Even the vegetarian dishes (like fried vegetables) are either fish sauce or oyster sauce (both are prepared with fermented fish or oysters in progress). If you communicate that you're a vegetarian, but I am readyvegetarian food for you, but you must learn to communicate in Thailand before arriving in Thailand.
Tofu is often just another ingredient in a dish, and rarely the most important ingredient. Although it is often used in Thailand, it is usually only a change in a dish with more meat.
