Thai Cuisine

Thai cuisine refers to typical foods, beverages, and cooking styles common to the country of Thailand in Southeast Asia. Thai Cuisine is well-known for being hot and spicy and for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal - hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty, and bitter (optional).

Although popularly considered as a single cuisine, Thai food would be more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern (or Isan), Central, and Southern, each cuisine sharing similar foods or derived from those of neighboring countries. Southern curries, for example, tend to contain coconut milk and fresh turmeric, while northeastern dishes often include lime juice.

• Khao Pad - One of the most common dishes in Thailand, fried rice, Thai style. Usually with chicken, beef, shrimp, pork, crab or coconut or pineapple.
• Pad Thai - rice noodles pan fried with fish sauce, sugar, lime juice or tamarind pulp, chopped peanuts, and egg combined with chicken, seafood, or tofu.
• Som tum - (thai salad) papaya and carrot, garlic and chillis dressed with lemon juice
• Rad Na - wide rice noodles in gravy, with beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, or seafood.
• Khao Pad Naem - fried rice with fermented sausage (typically from the Northeast)
• Pad See Ew - noodles stir-fried with see ew dum (thick soy sauce) and nahm plah (fish sauce) and pork or chicken.
• Pad Kee Mao - noodles stir-fried with Thai basil
• Khao khluk kapi - rice stir-fried with shrimp paste, served with sweetened pork and vegetables.
• Khanom Chin Namya - round boiled rice noodles topped with various curry sauces and eaten with fresh leaves and vegetables.
• Khao Soi - crispy wheat noodles in sweet chicken curry soup (a Northern dish)
• Khao Pad Gai - fried rice with chicken
• Gai Pad Grapao - minced chicken with garlic, chilies, and Holy basil
• Gai Pad Med Mamoung Himaphan - juicy chunks of chicken with cashew nuts and chilies
• Tom Yum Hed - spicy and slightly sour- mushroom soup flavoured with lemon grass

• Pahd Puk Ruam - saesonal vegetables stir fried
• Hed Tua Knork - mushrooms with bean sprouts and thai herbs, in soy sauce
• Tao Hu Khing - beancurd stir fried with fresh ginger and onion
• Tao Hu Prig-Haeng - beancurd stir fried with dried chillis and cashew nuts