thai food

Thai food:

The joy of cooking Thai food has been developing over the years with outside influences, especially
from the west. With modern kitchenware, new ideas and techniques have been further enhanced.
Today, a good Thai cook can be creative with new recipes.

some typical methods of Thai cooking still remain the same as they were in the past. thais love to grill.
Thais grill meats and seafood and eat them with dips called 'Nam Phrik' which makes the dishes tastier.
thais also grill bananas and you will see stands in surin that just sell them.

the ideal thai meal consisties of a spicy dish, a soup, fiied fish and salad. you will see traditional thai
familys eat on a bamboo mat that is rolled out. the food is placed in the middle of the mat and
everyone sits in a circle and shares the dishes that have been perpared. the meal always consistes of
rice with a choice of 'nam phrik' - chili paste dips. then your main meal is added fried fish, pork, chicken
with a soup of seafood or vegtables. rice is grown by just about everyone in thailand and is very
inexspensive, to buy.

Thai salads, called yam, are sour, sweet and salty. A simple dressing works equally well for meat,
seafood, vegetable and fruit salads. This is made from fish sauce, lime juice and a dash of sugar.
The heat comes from the fiery little chillies, but just how hot a salad should be depends on the
texture and flavour of the meat, vegetable or fruit used. Fresh herbs such as marsh mint,
lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves and cilantro are usually used as garnish

The heart of all Thai curries is the curry paste, which is made from fresh herbs and spices. The
paste is cooked in coconut cream before the meat or vegetables are added. Main ingredients in
most curry pastes are chilli, garlic, shallot, galangal, coriander root and krachai, the latter a small
indigenous root

Thai desserts are sweet, but not intensely so. Sticky rice with ripen mango, banana or flour
dumpling in sweetened coconut cream and seasonal fruits in sugar syrups with crushed ice are
favourites. Fresh fruit is always on hand mangoes, papya, oranges, grapes or melon to end a Thai
meal.