
Top 10 Best & Popular Thai Food
Posted on 15/05/2014 2:09:03
Thailand’s foods are combined the hot, sour, sweet and salty flavors in them, which makes it full of exotic flavors and fragrances. When you travel to Thailand, you really need to try them all, then you will covet Thai foods for a long time.
1. Tom Yam Goong
It is the most famous and popular Thai food with generous use of fragrant herbs. With lemongrass, lime leaves, galangal, kaffir lime leaves and shallots mixing in this soup and chillis and fish sauce give it a memorable smell. The main ingredients are shrimp and mushrooms. Many tourists love it.
2. Kuay Tiew Nam
It is soup noodle, a bowl of soup with noodles, meat and vegetables. Meat can be beef, pork, chicken, fish or meat balls.
3. Som Tam
It is Green Papaya Salad which usually serves as an appetizer with a taste of sour, sweet and spicy. Som Tam is crunchy-delicious with green papaya and lettuce.
4. Pad Thai
Pad thai is probably the signature dish in Thailand that tourists will be fascinated by it. It is a bowl of stir fried rice noodles withe a variety of ingredients, such as tofu, peanuts, shrimp, green onions, bean sprouts, garlic, pepper, fish sauce and lime juice. With a scrambled egg mixed into the noodles which will definitely suit your taste.
5. Green Chicken Curry
This dish is beautiful to serve with tender chicken simmered in a green curry sauce and fresh vegetables in it.
6. Kuay Teow Lui Suan
It is a kind of spring roll, but different. Instead of pork, you can add tuna, crab sticks, firm tofu, or shredded chicken,or mixed it all up. First you need you take one rice wrapper and place one leaf of lettuce, then place one teaspoon of pork, mushroom and cucumber. And roll the wrapper and tuck in the sides. It’s an amazing taste.
7. Khao Niew Mamuang
It is a special dessert in Thailand. One side of the plate put on the mongo and one side put on the sticky rice with coconut juice. The sour of mango will be neutralized by the sweet sticky rice.
8. Gai Med Ma Moung
It is the stir fry chicken with cashew nuts. Making this dish will take a lot of time, but the result will make you never regret teh time you spent. The cashew can strengthen the flavour and the spring onion and red chili can make it colorful.
9. Tom Kha Gai
This is a chicken soup with coconut milk. Adding the chili oil, cilantro leaves and lime wedges to improve taste. It can be also made with shrimp, pork, beef or mushroom. The flavour will be more pleasant.
10. Massaman Curry
Massanman means Muslim in Thai, which is the community to heartily thank for this concoction of coconut milk, potatoes, roasted peanuts, bay leaves, sugar, cinnamon, and tamarind sauce.