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Traveling and food is a combination that one cannot ignore. If you are traveling to Thailand you should know the cuisine so that traveling is made all the more enjoyable. Thai food is well known for it being spicy and hot. It is cooked with the basic ingredients like fresh coriander, garlic, limejuice, lemon grass, fish sauce and shrimp paste. Thai food is most popular because it is a wonderful blend of the five basic flavors- hot, sweet, sour, salty and bitter. It is best described as the amalgamation of the flavors of the four different regions of the North, Northeastern or Isan, Southern and Central. Thai food has been influenced to a great deal by the Chinese stir fried food and the curries of India yet managing to uphold its own native flavors. Thai food is famous for the extensive use of fresh herbs, spices along with fish sauce. Thai food is popular almost everywhere in the world. The kind of meat can be chosen among seafood, chicken, pork or beef. The famous Thai dishes are- Rad na- Rice noodles, pork, chicken, shrimp, cooked in spicy gravy.
Pad thai- pan fried rice noodles with sugar, fish sauce, chopped peanuts, lime juice, seafood, egg combined with chicken and tofu.
Pad see ew- Fermented sausages with fried rice.
Pad kee mao- stir fried noodles with Thai basil.
Khanom Chin Namya- boiled round rice noodles eaten with a host of curry sauces, fresh vegetables and leaves. There are some very common ingredients that are used as flavoring agents in Thai food. Most of the dishes consist of the nam pla, shrimp paste, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, turmeric, Thai basil, eggplants, coconut sugars, lime juice just to name a few. One will find innumerable variations and interpretations of the popular dishes of Thailand. The same food may vary from region to region. The dishes from the Northern part of Thailand are special with the unique sauces along with fermented paste of fish, raw beef; deep fried insect larvae served with the phrik khii nuu or the "mouse shit chillies".
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