The world's best food, Thailand

The world's best food, Thailand

by Jour ~ Thursday, June 1, 2006

Thailand has the world’s best food!? What do Thais have for a main meal? The main food in Thailand is rice, but there are many dishes of food to go with it. Thailand has so many feature dishes which are very famous. For those who try will have to say that Thailand has the world’s best food!
There are different styles of Thai dishes follows the Thailand four regions which are Central Region, Northern Region, Southern Region, and North Eastern Region.
The Thai in the central plain prefer food with smooth and lasting taste with a touch of sweetness. Rice is strictly food for every family in the central region. There are on the average three to five dishes to go with rice. Typical are soup, gang som (chili vegetable soup), gang phed (Thai red curry), tom yam (spiced soup) and so on. Chili fried meat dishes are for instances, pad phed, panaeng, masaman, fried ginger and green pepper, Thai salads or yam are yam tua pu, salad with sliced roasted beef. Dishes that regular feature fin a Thai meal of the central region are vegetable, namprik (chili sauce), platoo (local herring), and perhaps omelette (Thai style), fried beef of roasted pork.

Thai food of the north, in some way, is cooked with the sole thought for the taste for the northern people which is the recipe consists of vegetable and ingredients available in their immediate vicinity. The common meal includes steamed glutinous rice, chili sauces which come in a host of varieties, such as "namprik noom", "namprik dang", "namprik ong" and chili soups (gang) such as gang hangle, gang hoh, gang kae. In addition there are also, local sausages such as sai ua, and nham; steamed meat, roasted pork, pork resin, fried pork, fried chicken and vegetable to go with them.

Thai food of the south tends to be exceedingly chili hot compared with Thai food from other regions of Thailand. Specially favored dishes of the south are a whole variety of gang (spiced soup or curry) for examples, gang liang, gang tai pla, and budu sauce. Boiled rice mixed in budu sauce known as khao yam is a delicatessen of the southern people. Salty is taste, khao yam is taken with an assortment of vegetable. Considered special ties of the south are sataw, med riang and look niang.

Thai food of the northeast has steamed glutinous rice as a staple base to be taken with spiced ground meat with red pork blood, papaya salad or som tom, roasted fish, roasted chicken, jim-jaem, and rotted fish or pla rah. The northeast prefers to have their meat fried and the meat could be frog, lizard, snake, rice field rat, large red ants, insects etc. Pork, beef and chicken are preferred by well to do families.

The most three popular of Thai foods which can be observed are listed below.

Tom Yam Kung

(Spicy Shrimp soup) a subtle blends of hot and sour with citrus overtones, tom yam kung is the most famous of all Thai soups.

Phad Thai

(Stir-Fried Thai Noodles) one of Thailand's best known noodle dishes. It is eaten as a light meal at any time of the day or night, and is especially popular at the night markets throughout the country.

Phad Kraphao

(Spicy meat with basil) this is a quick and easy dish which is a favorite of the people of downtown Bangkok. Sometimes it is served over rice with a fried egg.