Cuisine of Thailand
Rice is a staple component of Thai cuisine, as it is of most south-east Asian cuisines. Fairly bland rice or noodle dishes are accompanied by highly aromatic curries, stir-fries and other dishes, incorporating large quantities of chillies, lime juice and lemon grass.Many Thai dishes use kaffir lime leaves, usually fresh - its characteristic flavour appears in nearly every Thai soup (e.g., the hot and sour tom yam), stir-fry or curry.
In Thai cuisine, kaffir lime is frequently combined with garlic, galangal, ginger and fingerroot, together with liberal amount of chillies. Fresh Thai basil is needed for the authentic fragrance.
Famous Thai dishes:
- Tom Yum Gung - hot & sour soup with seafood
- Tom Yum Gai - hot & sour soup with chicken
- Tom Ka Gai - hot sweet soup with chicken and coconut
- Satay - grilled meat served with peanut sauce (originated in Indonesia)
- Pad Thai - pan-fried rice noodles with various ingredients
- Red Curry
- Gaeng Keow Waen - sweet green curry
- Yellow Curry
