Thai Cuisine: Typical Thai Dishes

Thu, Sep 20th 2007, 00:00

The cuisine of Thailand has become popular all over the world. People love it for the fresh tastes, the colour and spice.


Popular Thai dishes inlcude:

Som Tam (papaya salad): a northeastern specialty that many consider the national dish of Thailand. Slivers of green papaya are combined with peanuts, dried seafood, and vegetables. This salad is extremely spicy, eaten with sticky rice and fresh grilled chicken. The dish is affectionately known as Papaya Pok Pok, the pok pok being the sound of the ingredients being mashed together in a pestle and mortar.

Khao Yam: fragrant rice accompanied by finely chopped lemon grass, peanuts, bean sprouts, green beans, sour mango and chopped kaffir lime and served with chilli, fresh lime and boodoo sauce (a piquant dipping sauce made from fermented anchovy). This is a popular breakfast dish in southern Thailand.

Ka-Nom Jiin: flour noodles topped with your choice of spicy curry. Although popular at breakfast, you can find small shops and stalls serving ka-nom jiin throughout the day.

Satay: grilled meat, usually pork or chicken, served with cucumber salad and peanut sauce. This dish is actually of Indonesian origin, but is now a popular street food in Thailand.

In Phuket, the cuisine has a strong Chinese influence from Chinese migrants who settled here. There is also a significant muslim influence in the area. These influences are evident in Phuket dishes like mee pad hokkien, hokkien style stir-fried noodles with its roots in Fujian province, China (where migrants working the Phuket tin mines originated).

Another Chinese inflenced dish is ow taw, fried oysters served with egg and flour with spicy curry paste. Ro tee are muslim pancakes eaten savoury with curry, or sweet.

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