Thai cuisine is a very popular cuisine known all over the world. Apparently influenced by Chinese and Indian cooking, Thai cuisine is a mixture of the best and the most delicious dishes. Thais have a certain unique way of presenting their dishes with beautiful food arrangements. Thai foods are great not only for its taste but also with its attractive looks.
Rice is the staple food of the Thais. It is served, or boiled. The typical Thai meal consists of a large platter with different food dishes, together with the rice. Thai cuisine is a mixture of vegetables, fish, and other meat with lots of spices such as, chili, garlic, lemongrass, coconut milk, tamarind, ginger, basil, peanuts and many others. Thai food is frequently hot and spicy. One of the famous Thai dishes is Tom Yum Kung, which is a spicy soup with shrimp and the Pad -Thai; a kind of noodle fried mixed with meat and vegetable.
Thai cuisine also has a large variety of desserts and snacks dishes. Thai desserts are mainly made with sugar, egg, and coconut milk. The Kanom Buang, is a batter folded over and filled with scraped coconut meat, added with egg yolk and green onion; a well known dessert dish in Thailand.
Visitors can enjoy Thai desserts in all restaurants and even along the sidewalks. Thailand also abounds with lots of tropical fruits. A variety of different kinds of fruits can be seen throughout the year. Well known Thai fruits are the durian, rambutant, mangosteen, mangoes, banana, papaya and lots more.
Most of Thai dishes are tastes salty, sweet, and a little spicy. But even so, the spiciness of the food is just smooth, where in people wouldn’t have difficulty trying it. Thais use a variety of spices for their cooking which made their cuisine famous. Thai cuisines are being cooked around the world. Cooking schools consider Thai cuisine as one of their major dishes. Thai foods consist of large amount of sea foods and vegetables.
Thai cuisine is mostly liked be the Chinese because it almost tastes like Chinese cuisines. People from around the world also love to try Thai meals and other foreigners even consider it their favorite.
Thailand is a country full of wonderful things. Starting from the country itself, to its native cuisines will surely reveal why this country is so loved, both local and even abroad.