Spicy cuisine: what to eat on vacation in Thailand. Thai cuisine

The national cuisine of Thailand is one of the main advantages of the local culture.

Thai cuisine is rapidly gaining popularity around the world. Unusual dishes, exquisite appearance, delicate balance of tastes - that's what distinguishes the dishes of this amazing country.

Surrounded by countries with rich cuisine, Thailand has adopted many of their ways of cooking. Borrowing recipes and improving them to suit your own tastes, soon became a country whose dishes all gourmets aspire to try.

A lot of the types of Thai dishes were influenced by Chinese, Japanese and, believe it or not, European cuisine. In the distant 17th century, Portuguese missionaries brought chili peppers to this country. Since then, chili has become one of the most commonly used spices in Thai cooking.

Main products

1. Fig. The main Asian agricultural crop, is the basis for most dishes.

Recipes include the use of only two types of this cereal: white crumbly and glutinous rice. As a side dish, the first type is eaten with a spoon into which rice is placed with a fork. And from the second, small balls are rolled, which are completely thrust into the mouth.

Rice is the main ingredient in many dishes.

Sweet and sour rice, stir-fry with rice and spices, thin rice soup - this is only a small part of what is prepared from this product.

2. Noodles and pasta. It is not hard to guess that the popularity of noodles came to Thailand from China. But in this country, noodles have turned from a side dish into a completely independent dish.

3. Meat. Many Thai recipes include meat. But because of its high cost, it is not so often that the inhabitants of this country eat such dishes. The most popular are duck and chicken meat.

4. Seafood. Thailand is a landlocked country. It is not surprising that this influenced the cuisine of this country. Seafood is the staple after rice in the Thai diet.

5. Sauces. Sweet, sour, spicy - they are able to give a new taste to any dish. The chefs of this country know the recipes for more than one hundred original sauces. The most original salad here is seasoned with fermented fish sauce, vegetables and rice - kao yam.

6. Seasonings. The leading condiment in Thai cuisine is yellow curry. Incredibly spicy, it has gained incredible popularity in this country and is the basis for many sauces. The abundance of spices and spices is a characteristic feature of the dishes of this country.

7. Vegetables and fruits. The tropical climate has rewarded Thailand with a huge variety of incredible fruits. There are more than 20 types of bananas here.

In addition to all the famous pineapples, eggplants, papaya, such exotic fruits as lychee, guava, durian, tangerini, sapodilla, mangosteen, rambutan and others grow here.

Fruits of Thailand.

Europeans will be able to try most of these species only upon arrival in this hospitable country. The peculiarity of the Thais is that they prefer to eat fruits as part of any dishes than as a separate product.

Principles of Thai cuisine

An interesting feature of Thai cuisine is that recipes are not always clear cut. Even professional chefs often cook by eye. Thais believe that the main secret of a delicious dish is the perfect balance between five tastes: sour, bitter, salty, spicy and sweet.

Many seasonings and sauces are used to give a certain flavor to the dish. For example, chili or curry will make the dish incredibly spicy, bitter cucumber will make the food bitter, and sugar cane or ripe pineapple will add sweetness.

Lemon and lime are used to add sourness to the taste.

Thais prefer small portions but eat often. Therefore, do not be surprised if it seems to you that the waiter on the plate brought too little food. The use of knives is not common in Thailand. Thais prefer dishes where all the food is cut into small pieces.

Thais prefer dishes where all the food is cut into small pieces.

Fruit comes at the end of the meal. There are many different types of drinks in Thailand, but the most common is naam yen, plain cold water without any flavors.

Cooking features

Cooking speed is a characteristic feature of Thai cuisine.

The Thai wok has gained great fame - special dishes for frying over an open fire. Thick walls, a special shape speed up the cooking process at times compared to a frying pan. No more than 5 minutes is necessary for the cook to fry the vegetables until cooked.

Thai wok - a special dish for frying over an open fire.

Often, vegetables are fried for salad, which surprises many Europeans.

Serving the dish

Thai cuisine is distinguished by the exquisite look of the food served. No respectable chef will bring a dish that is not beautifully served. An interesting presentation, sculptures of vegetables, decoration with greens allow you to enjoy not only the taste sensations, but also the aesthetics of the dish.

Thai cuisine dish.

A salad will always surprise you with the accuracy of the layout of vegetables, and a meat dish with additional serving elements.

Thai main dishes

Thai recipes number in the hundreds. And in order to try these delicious dishes, you should definitely visit this wonderful country. Yes, many restaurants of this cuisine are opening in the world, which give their customers a chance to get acquainted with the cuisine of Thailand.

But they can only offer to try a couple dozen dishes. True gourmets should go to this country and enjoy exotic dishes.

Salad is an integral part of the Thai diet. Their recipes surprise with their simplicity and ease of execution. Som Tam salad is the most popular in the country. More than 10 ingredients are included in its composition. This is peanuts, and fish sauce, and sugar cane paste, and much more.

The unforgettable taste, the balance of sour, salty, sweet and spicy at the same time, brought this salad to the pinnacle of Thai culinary excellence.

Salad with the curious name "Morning Glory" or Pad Pak Bung Fai Daeng - intrigues many. In oyster sauce, with a clove of garlic and a small amount of chili, a mixture of vegetables, basil, herbs and impomoea is fried.

Salad "Morning Glory" is served hot.

Tom Yum Kung soup is no less famous. Its peculiarity is that all ingredients are cooked in coconut milk. Shrimps, tomatoes, mushrooms, kolgan, a little bit of lemongrass and a couple of lime leaves - that's all that is needed for him. The dish is served either in coconut milk or without it. Therefore, there are two types of this dish: Nam Kom and Nam Sai.

Thai cuisine recipes include hundreds of meat dishes. But the main one is Panang Gai. Chicken fried in Thai-favorite curry and served in coconut cream is a favorite among many Thai food lovers. The sharpness of the dish is refreshed by lemongrass leaves.

The unusual balance of sour and spicy makes Panang Gai stand out from other dishes.

It is also worth noting:

• Po Pia Sod - buns with sausage, scrambled eggs and vegetable salad.
• Mi Krop or "Crispy Noodles" - well-done pasta with sweet and sour sauce.
• Yum Nua - grilled meat, cucumber, onion with pepper and lime juice.
• Larb Gai - chicken with minced onion, lime juice and pepper.
• Pad Thai - rice noodles in a special sauce, eggs, shrimp, bean sprouts and green onions.

For dessert, Thais prefer to eat jelly or fruit pudding. A favorite delicacy of many are pancakes with a banana. Of course, this is only a small list of dishes that you can try in Thailand.

17 most delicious Thai dishes:

Tom Kha

Coconut milk soup with mushrooms, tomatoes, galangan or ginger, lemongrass, cilantro (coreander), is not spicy because coconut milk neutralizes the pepper. There are several types: with chicken (tom kha gai), with shrimp (tom kha goong) and with pork (tom kha muu). This soup is great for those who can't or don't want to eat spicy food. I recommend.

Khao Pad

Fried rice mixed with egg (or without egg), served with pieces of chicken / beef / pork / shrimp / crab or if you don’t want meat, order “khao pad pag” - they will bring you the same dish, only with fried vegetables. You can also ask to put a fried egg on top (as in the photo), for this, just say “khai dao”. This dish is not spicy. Served with naam pla fish sauce. I recommend.

Yam Woon Sen

Thai salad with seafood and glass noodles. In general, "Yam" (in English transcription Yum or Yam) is a whole "class" of sour and spicy salads with glass noodles. The taste and aroma of Yam salads is the responsibility of the sauce of the same name made from sweet onions, fish sauce, lime, sugar, chili, celery or cilantro (hence Tom-Yam: “boiled Yam”). And the fillers can be very different - from minced pork and grilled beef to seafood and shrimp. My favorite version of this salad is Yam Wun Sen Gung i.e. with shrimps. Very fresh, "light" and satisfies hunger well. I recommend.

By default, the salad is served spicy. If you don't want it spicy, say "mai phed" - not spicy.

Pad Xi Yu

This is a very simple and hearty dish consisting of pork, vegetables and noodles, quickly fried in soy sauce. The key ingredient in this dish is broad rice noodles. The dish is not served spicy. I recommend.

Kha Tom

Thai rice soup, usually with pork, chicken or shrimp. Sometimes, when serving, chopped ginger is added to it. My husband calls kha tom hangover soup. He says in the morning after a good booze it is very tasty)) The soup is served with chicken / pork / shrimp.

Tom Yum

A masterpiece of Thai culinary art, this is the most popular Thai soup among tourists and guests of the Kingdom. Soup with lots of shrimps, mushrooms, tomatoes, lemongrass, colgan and lime leaves (kaffir). All this is boiled in coconut milk and served in two versions: with coconut cream - soup Tom Yum Kung Nam Kon (tom yum gung nam kohn) or without it - Tom Yum Kung Nam Sai (tom yum gung nam sai). The second version is slightly more sour and light. Tom Yum really combines many tastes: salty, sour, spicy and sweet in one dish. This is a true favorite of Thai cuisine known throughout the world.

Som Tam

Garlic and chili are first crushed in a mortar. Tamarind juice, fish sauce, peanuts, dried shrimp, tomatoes, lime juice, sugarcane paste, beans, and a handful of green papaya go into the mortar. Sweet, salty and spicy flavors paired with green crunchy papaya. Som Tam has many options on offer: with crabs - som tam boo, with fermented fish sauce - som tam plah lah.

Pad Thai

Medium-sized rice noodles fried with shrimp and a variety of ingredients - nuts, tofu, bean sprouts, green onions, garlic, pepper, lime juice and fish sauce. Everything is poured over with an egg and cooked until the dish becomes thicker - this will give it a delicious taste. Lime is squeezed onto the finished Pad Thai and sprinkled with peanuts. And again, some add a few tablespoons of sugar, dried chili peppers and a small spoonful of vinegar to it. Therefore, this set is served as a seasoning for the famous Pad Thai salad.

Gang Jued

One of the lightest Thai soups is Gang Jute. Minced pork, tofu and glass noodles are added to a vegetable broth made from cabbage, carrots and onions. Be sure to parsley on top. Almost like our fresh cabbage soup, only instead of thai noodles and tofu we have potatoes and tomatoes.

Khao Na Phet

Roast duck is recognized throughout Asia for being fatter and more flavorful than chicken. Thai dish Khao Na Phet is served on a plate with rice. Selected pieces of duck are placed on rice and duck broth with acacia leaves is poured on top. Khao Na Phet is easy to see - street food carts hang ducks in a glass cabinet. It is also customary to serve duck with a simple and nutritious duck broth.

In Thailand, very often you can see certain dishes in the window, or even whole chicken or duck carcasses. These are special layouts designed to show what kind of dish is cooked here.

Kai Ji Moo Sap

Authentic Thai food that everyone can cook for themselves. Eggs are beaten with fish and soy sauce, then minced pork is added. The resulting mixture is poured over hot boiled rice. Served with chili sauce and fresh herbs.

Khao Nii Mu Yang

Pork kebab, and garnish with rice, noodles or french fries. All grilled meat in Thailand, like all Thai food - street and in restaurants, are very tasty and not expensive. You can buy Khao Nii Mu Yang everywhere, at any time of the day.

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Grilled chicken, like grilled pork, is moo yang, a very popular Thai dish, which is why it is sold everywhere from street food carts to restaurants. Grilled chicken's companion is rice and delicious spicy Som Tam (green papaya salad). You can buy a whole chicken, or you can buy half. On street food carts, at different vendors, it is prepared according to different recipes, but always delicious.

Khao Man Gai

Lean chicken with rice. In Russia, we call it chicken broth with rice (meaning chicken in it, as usual). Thai chicken Khao Man Gai is served on a plate with rice, broth is brought to it separately. As a seasoning, of course, chili and soy sauce are offered.

Khao Pad Kra Pao

Another very popular Thai dish. This is finely chopped (minced in some versions) meat, fried with Thai spices and basil leaves and, of course, with chili. You can order gai - chicken maso, muu - pork and nya - beef. Served with rice and additionally you can put a fried egg (khai dao) on top. A very tasty, in my opinion, dish, but it is not often that a chef can cook it for you that is not at all spicy.

Pla Ka Pang Neung Manu

Whole perch in a steam pool with hot sauce. Lime juice is poured into a metal mold in which the dish is served. A candle burns at the bottom of the mold to keep the fish steamed all the time. Garlic cloves and green chili poke through cilantro and lime zest for a spicy taste, while steamed sweet fish melts in your mouth.

Pla Plu

A popular street food with som tam and glutinous rice is plain fried fish with salt. The fish is stuffed with lemongrass, lime leaves and other flavorful ingredients and heavily sprinkled with salt. That is why, never overcooked, it is grilled to juicy perfection. The result is soft, sweetish, white fish meat that literally melts in your mouth. Pla plu in Thailand is made from all types of fish.

As you can see, Thai food is very diverse. There is no way to write about everything. But for us, the most delicious, in our opinion, dishes were selected. Worthy of everyone's attention.

Today I will talk a little about the cuisine of Thailand. A lot has been written about Thai cuisine, but I prefer to try everything myself, which I advise you. For me, Thai food is exotic, seafood, exotic fruits and unforgettable, new, unusual tastes. Thai cuisine dishes are interesting, beautiful, burning, as if beckoning to return to this country again and again. All in all, Thai food is another way to experience Asia. The abundance of exotic flavors and aromas make Thai cuisine one of the most desirable in all international cuisine. Whether it's a walk around Bangkok, Krabi or Koh Samui, everything around persistently reminds of these tastes and aromas of Thai dishes. Of course, it is difficult to fit everything about Thai cuisine in one article, but I will try.

Thai dishes

Thais in food always combine four tastes: sour, sweet, spicy, salty. And they literally add it to everything: soup, fish, and dessert.
If you are not a big fan of chili pepper, you can take traditional European food, but even here there are surprises. For example, pizza with sausage, poured with condensed milk. Waffles with marmalade, sugar and pepper… Salted ice cream with beans and beans… A sour apple in a restaurant is dipped in a mixture of salt and chili pepper and used as an appetizer.
The norm of pepper that is good for Thais is death for farangs (a local name for Europeans that does not carry a negative connotation). If you do not want to get into such a situation, ask for "Know spicy", then the amount of pepper that you will be poured anyway will be quite sufficient for you.

Thai food to try in Thailand

Khao man kai

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Khao Man Gai is a famous Thai street food. This is a mixture of Hainanese chicken and Thai rice. Khao Man Gai is an original Thai dish that is rarely included in the menu of most Thai restaurants in the West, but is widely known in Thailand itself. For Thais, however, it is a national favorite dish. In fact, just mentioning the name of the Thai dish Khao man kai (Khao man kai) can cause rapid breathing in greedy anticipation.
And the reason is simple: Thai food is delicious. How can you say no to slices of juicy and tender chicken meat served with fragrant rice cooked in a rich broth with a unique spicy sauce of ginger, garlic, chili, and soy sauce.

Kaeng phet pet yang, Gaeng Daeng, Kaeng Phet Pet Yang

Roast Duck Red Curry is a famous Thai dish that is popular in Thai restaurants, especially in the West. This is not a Thai dish that the locals usually make at home, it is festive and prepared in Thailand for special occasions. Roast Duck Red Curry can be made using your own curry paste, or you can use pre-made curry pastes.

Made with chunks of meat, red curry paste, coconut milk and finely chopped kaffir lime leaves, Thai Kaeng Phet is a rich, flavorful dish that excites the taste buds. Amazingly tender meat, soft, sweet and moderately fragrant, makes the heart fall in love with Kaeng Phet.

Ho mok, ho mok

Ho mok is also a popular Thai food. Ho mok is essentially a kind of fish “paté” curry wrapped in banana leaves. This Thai dish is served with thick coconut cream topping. The fish pate itself is a homogenized mixture of fish, meat, spices, coconut milk and eggs. Usually this salmon-colored pâté is pink and can be quite spicy, depending on the amount of chili in the mix. As a rule, the portion of this Thai cuisine dish is small, so it is difficult to eat from one serving. But in this situation there is a way out: it happens that Ho Mok is sold in large portions in the form of a boat. For a big company, that's it.
As a rule, Ho mok is eaten straight from the leaf wrapper without a plate or packaging, which is why Ho mok is a popular Thai food for picnics and also as a travel snack. By the way, if you are interested in new unusual tastes of Thai cuisine, I also advise you to read the article about food in Bangkok.

Som tam, Som Tam

Som Tam is another popular Thai dish. This is a spicy and sour papaya salad that is an exceptional addition to Thai BBQ chicken and rice. Som Tam is a low-calorie Thai dish that is healthy and cheap. It can often be found in restaurants and cafes on the beach.

Som Tam is believed to have originated in Laos, but having crossed the border in the northeast of Thailand, it has been firmly adopted in these provinces as a favorite dish, most people in the northeast of Thailand eat it at least once a day!

Garlic, chili peppers, green beans, cherry tomatoes, and grated raw papaya give a sweet-sour-spicy flavor that's hard to forget. Thai food Som Tam has many varieties because so many types of vegetables or fruits can be used in its preparation, such as papaya, bean sprouts, banana, cucumber, pineapple, tamarind, etc.

Tom Yam Goong is a staple of Thai cuisine.

Tom Yum is the hallmark of Thai cuisine. Soup Tom Yum (ต้มยำ) comes in several varieties. Shrimps, seafood, chicken, mushrooms, vegetables. It is most popular among tourists with shrimp (Tom Yum Kung) and seafood (Tom Yum Thale). I also really like the white version of this fish soup - Tom Yum Pla, this variety is the most authentic. I like Tom Yum Kung Nam Khon with shrimp - this is with the addition of coconut milk. In general, Tom Yum is a sour-sweet-spicy chicken/fish broth soup with lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, onions, chili peppers, fish sauce, mushrooms, vegetables, lime juice. Classic Thai dish. Not everyone likes it.

Tom Kha Kai

Kom Kha is a popular Thai dish. Milder than Tom Yum, this famous soup is made with hot chili peppers, thinly sliced ​​young galangal, minced shallots, lemongrass stalks, and tender chicken pieces. However, unlike its more watered-down brother Tom Yam, Tom Kha has more coconut milk to soften it up. Fresh lime leaves are also added to this Thai food, resulting in a fragrant soup, in the fine Thai tradition.

Pad Thai

Pad Thai is the default international Thai dish known all over the world! Small, thin or wide noodles along with crunchy soy sprouts, onion and egg fried on the stovetop. Taste is awakened from sleep by the combination of the four main seasonings - fish sauce, sugar, pepper and finely ground peanuts - in this exotic Thai dish.

Khao Pad

A popular Thai lunch dish, so simple to the point of banality and delicious - fried rice, herbs, egg, onion, usually served with a lime wedge and a slice of cucumber. The secret of this simple dish lies in its simplicity. From shrimp, crab or chicken, chili peppers and on hand vegetables, the dish looks like the Thais used whatever was on hand, transforming unremarkable ingredients into an interesting dish of Thai cuisine.

Gaeng Keow Wan Kai

Gaeng Keow Wan Kai is another Thai dish. Fresh chicken pieces, eggplant, tender bamboo shoots, coriander sprigs, generous handfuls of sweet basil form the base of this curry dish. The secret of this Thai food is a spoonful of green curry paste mixed with hot creamy coconut milk. The Thai dish Gaeng Keow Wan Kai is served with a bowl of fragrant rice.

Yam Nua, Yam Nua (spicy beef salad)

Yam Nua is a savory Thai food. By the way, Thai dishes are called “yam” here. The fresh, pungent flavor of Yam Nua is a blend of onion, coriander, mint, lime, dried chili and tender slices of beef. This Thai dish is as invigorating as all Thai salads.

Kai Med Ma Muang (Chicken with cashew nuts)

Kai Med Ma Muang is an interesting Thai dish. Tourists go crazy for this dish. Possibly due to the wild contrast of stewed chicken alongside roasted cashews, sweet soy sauce, onions, chili peppers, carrots and mushrooms. This is a simple but extremely tasty, slightly exotic Thai dish that is worth trying in Thailand.

Pak Boong

Pak Bung is a Thai dish. The main component of this simple dish is green stems and thin fragile leaves, common throughout Southeast Asia. This Thai dish includes garlic, chili, oyster sauce, fish sauce and black soy sauce. The result is an interesting dish with an unobtrusive flavor, perfect for those who love Thai food but don't like very spicy dishes.

Thai cuisine my review

After reviewing Thai dishes, I also want to add my review. Thai food is spicy. For me it's not real at all! It is impossible to eat it, BUT lovers of ostrika obviously like it! So delicious .... if you ask before ordering without seasonings, it will be edible! But even then they (spices) are and are felt, but less pronounced than in traditional Thai cuisine.

For those who don’t like spicy Thai dishes at all, there is a bunch of Russian and children’s menus in Thailand: dumplings, pancakes, scrambled eggs, and okroshka… If you order fish in Thailand, it all depends on where and how they cook it. One and the same seafood can be delicious or, conversely, disgustingly poor.

In Thai cuisine, sugar and peanuts are added to the soup. I like peanuts in soup, but I haven't tried it with sugar yet. And in general, Thailand is a country of soups - they are sold on every corner.

I saw local potatoes. It grows in the fields, two meters high. Maybe I exaggerated, I honestly don’t remember, but she is mega tall and “sits” deep in the ground! It tastes very sweet, just like poured sugar, and a huge tuber about a kilogram.
Every time we eat Thai food, we order ordinary boiled rice… Firstly, because I personally don’t get enough of fish, and secondly, it’s nutritious and cheap…..
As for the meat in the cuisine of Thailand, there is chicken, pork, and beef here! I love beef steak, in Thailand it is juicy, tasty.
Chicken normal... Runs around the island, laying eggs... Tastes like ours.

Be sure to try the local banana pancakes with chocolate from the cuisine of Thailand. Melt in your mouth! Words can not describe, divinely delicious!
Food, in general, can be found for any whim, alcohol too ...
Only now we have found ourselves in a situation where we are on a wild island, there are no shops and markets, and cafes and restaurants are open until 22:00 pm. After that, there is no food until the morning! Alcohol is available around the clock.
And I am a fan of eating at night, I suffer, but I found a way out! I order food in a restaurant for dinner, and the order to take away, I ask you to throw it into the box and happily beat beef and french fries at night.

Thai food in hotels

Meals in most hotels in Thailand include breakfast. "All inclusive" is not here, and it is not necessary! The breakfasts are excellent: our European dishes and buffet. In addition, there is also some Thai food.
I think when you are in another country, you should try and try to see everything…. Well, almost all... Due to this, to study the mentality of people, culture, life .... I had scorpions, and bugs, and spiders, and vile floating creatures for dinner .... I spent the night in the jungle and on the river, and on the islands and on the mainland .... Tried almost everything. It's worth a try, and then on the fan.

Alcohol and soft drinks in Thailand

Alcohol and soft drinks…. Uuuuuuu local rum, beer and wine….. You can see I'm a pampered girl, but it's vile…. Very strong but cheap. "Inserts" almost instantly! There is good beer in Thailand that is pleasant to drink. Martini, beer, vodka is EVERYTHING! But a little more expensive and the difference is in English letters ...
Soft drinks…. Juices, smoothies, fresh juices. All fruity, natural! This is the theme! True, there are also powder ones, but they are felt immediately! But if natural, then the taste is amazing.
Just today I noticed that even in children's cocktails they add a lot of ice ... The kids drink a lot from the heat ... And it's a LOT of ice!

Other Thai dishes, which I will talk about in the following articles, as well as some photos of Thai dishes. For fans of extreme food, our top 10 spooky dishes from Thailand.

So, today I talked a little about the cuisine of Thailand. Might be interesting.

To get hooked on Thai cuisine, you may need a mere trifle: just once or twice to taste dishes seasoned with galangal, cardamom, lemongrass, coconut milk and chili pepper. Their taste and smell so strongly affects the brain center of pleasure that the desire to please the receptors of the tongue and nose again with something similar will periodically arise against the will. Thai dishes will appeal to both inveterate meat-eaters and vegetarians, because almost every one of them has a double. According to one of the recipes, the list of ingredients may include pork, chicken, seafood, in another way - only components of plant origin. Many Thai dishes can be tasted at an attractive price in mobile carts called .

most famous and popular Thai dish Tom Yum, which is usually accompanied by the epithet "sour", although it is both sweet and salty, and, traditionally, very spicy. It is very thick, they put almost everything that is in the house into it. In coastal areas, for example, shrimp, and in villages in the north, mushrooms. Mandatory ingredients are tomatoes, lime leaves, galangal. The basis of Tom Yam soup is coconut milk, in the “basic” version, “Nam Sai” is added to its name. But if the recipe also includes coconut cream (something similar to our sour cream), then Nam Kon. Such a soup is more high-calorie, and the sourness in it is less pronounced.

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Second most popular dish Thai cuisine Kung Som. At its core, it is a light vegetable soup cooked in meat broth. The taste is traditional for Thailand - it combines sour, sweet and spicy. Main ingredients: stewed cabbage, carrots, green beans. There is a recipe when scrambled eggs and acacia leaves are added to this soup. Then "Cha Om Kai" is added to the name. This soup is served with fresh herbs and the obligatory chili pepper.

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Rice for Thais, like all residents of Southeast Asia, is the basis of the diet. Therefore recipes Thai rice dishes Do not count, - one of the most beloved. Rice noodles, quite large in size, which are fried with shrimp, along the way adding to it everything that is edible at home. For example: tofu, bean sprouts, green onions... The dish is dressed with lemon juice, fish sauce, pepper is traditionally added to it. Ready noodles are poured with an egg. The result is a kind of casserole. Depending on the degree of readiness of the egg, it can be thick semi-liquid or a piece. Top it with lime juice, vinegar, some gourmets add granulated sugar.

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Panang Gai is my favorite Thai chicken dish, cooked in Red Curry sauce and topped with whipped coconut milk cream, which enhances the taste sensations. To stimulate appetite and suppress the feeling of satiety, it is served with finely crushed lemongrass leaves.

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Thai scrambled eggs called Gai Pad Pongali, which includes chicken, onions and tomatoes. It differs from the European one, consisting of bacon and tomatoes, with a lethal portion of spices. Yellow curry paste and finely chopped parsley are used, which is sprinkled liberally on Thai scrambled eggs. In general, many people eat this dish in the morning, but they do not realize at all that it is Thai.

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Very delicious thai dish is popular mainly among tourists, since meat is not very common in the diet of Thais, and also because each cook can cook it in his own way. For example, use meat in pieces or in the form of minced meat. The types of spices used also vary. The main ingredients are meat, garlic, basil and chili peppers. There are recipes that allow deviation from the canons and the use of chicken or fish fillet. It is prepared using the “steer fry” technology - quick frying in hot oil.

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The main ingredients of green, yellow and red curries are: green chili peppers, lime leaves, lemongrass, basil, shrimp paste, coconut milk. It changes color depending on the recipe. The most spicy and burning is green curry, a little softer is red, and almost calmly tolerated by Europeans is yellow. The main seasoning for rice.

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Kung Massaman is a Thai sauce that falls out of a searing sweet and sour symphony of flavors. It's sweet and moderately spicy. The base includes yellow curry with coconut milk, zira, cinnamon, nutmeg. It comes from the southern provinces of Thailand bordering Malaysia and is considered a halal dish. Served with boiled potatoes and meat (beef), poultry, tofu mushrooms.

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Keow Wan is one of the national dishes of Thailand, prepared on the basis of green curry paste. Additional ingredients are: bamboo shoots, eggplant, basil, galangal, lemongrass leaves. Served in a thick form with rice with boiled chicken.

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The most famous and equally unusual salad in Thailand. Firstly, the ingredients for it are not cut, but pounded in a mortar. Secondly, fermented fish sauce, known in Vietnam as Nuoc Nam, is often added to it - pungent and odorous, a real test for European stomachs. For cooking are used: chili pepper, garlic, tamarind juice, tomatoes, lime juice, cane (sugar) paste, beans, green papaya, crab meat or shrimp.

As you can see Thai dishes very appetizing and attractive, but if you decide to taste all the delights of Southeast Asian cuisine, then first assess the health of your stomach and start with small portions. Bon appetit!

Hi all. This article will be on one of our favorite topics - food. Food in Thailand is a unique phenomenon. Here you can discover many new bright unusual sensations, try something both unrealistically tasty and unrealistically disgusting. And in this article, we will list the main dishes that you should definitely try while in Thailand, so that you have the right idea about Asian cuisine.

Thai food is characterized by a mixture of flavors. So they can eat sweet fruits with hot peppers, fish soup can be very sour, etc. But still, when coming to Thailand, it is better to eat local food than to constantly eat familiar hamburgers and french fries, which are also not uncommon here.

Travel becomes really interesting when you make some discoveries, including culinary ones.

List of Thai dishes you must try

Tom Yum- the famous Thai spicy soup, which delights almost all foreigners. By the way, the portions here are very large. One soup is enough for two. Many even try to cook it at home on their own upon returning from Thailand.

Thai soup with coconut milk. Also very tasty rich soup with seafood, mushrooms, onions and other unknown ingredients. These soups are best eaten in ordinary, unremarkable Thai cafes, because in such establishments large portions, low prices, and only traditional recipes are used for cooking. In such cafes, you can appreciate authentic Thai cuisine.

Snails, mussels and all kinds of shells also deserve your attention. In most cases, they are mega tasty, especially if cooked with a delicate creamy sauce.

Fish and meat balls. This dish can be eaten in the so-called Makashnitsa (a motorcycle with a cart where Thais cook and sell food), which can be found throughout the city. You choose balls that are impaled on skewers. There are usually 5 balls on one skewer, which will be fried and served with spicy sauce and herbs. The price for a skewer is 10 baht. You can also take a bag of rice with these balls as a side dish.

Calamari with garlic. If you like garlic and seafood, then be sure to try garlic squid rings in Thailand. The taste of the dish is very thermonuclear, but tasty.

Skewers of fish, pork or chicken. They are inexpensive, only 20 baht for a barbecue. Very often, in addition to meat, various vegetables are planted on a skewer.

Rolls. Here they are a little different from the rolls that are made in Russia, but they are also delicious and there is a large selection. At prices of 5 and 10 baht apiece.

Rice with egg, crab, shrimp or chicken. Rice with an egg is very popular among tourists, to which the Thais add chicken, shrimp, crab meat, etc. Simple and very tasty.

Fried rice with fish. Very tasty fragrant rice in itself, and large juicy pieces of fish make it even tastier.

Grilled seafood. Shrimp, squid, octopus and other exotic delicacies…

Thai pancakes. An excellent and inexpensive dessert (40 baht) with various fillings: nuts, raisins, condensed milk, banana, chocolate, etc.

Seafood in sauce. An excellent choice, especially if you complement it with a side dish of rice.

Salad with rice noodles and seafood. Seafood, herbs and vegetables are boiled in a matter of minutes, mixed with herbs and sauces, it turns out very tasty and unusual. By the way, you can choose the ingredients for this dish yourself.

Fish in salt. At first glance, this dish does not cause much delight. Well, fish and fish, but as soon as you try it, you will understand why Thais and tourists love it so much. It is prepared in a special way, in which the meat is very tender, juicy and moderately salty. The fish is served with noodles, sauce and salad. Unrealistically delicious.

If you really want to try everything, don't miss out on fried crickets, grasshoppers, and grubs. But this, as they say, is an amateur.

If you have been to Thailand, then write in the comments what dishes you liked. What do you recommend and what do you not recommend to try here.