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Ingredients of Thai Cuisine

The probably most noticable ingredient of Thai cooking is: chili. Even though it’s not an primary Thai ingredient – it has just been introduced to Thailand a incorporate of hundred years ago by Portugese traders who brought it from South America – it’s hard to imagine Thai cooking without chillis nowadays.

Fortunately for you, most Thai citizen nowadays know that Westerners prefer a milder taste and often have a hard time dealing with primary Thai spiciness and will get ready dishes “mai ped” (not spicy) if cooking for European or American visitors.

Coconut milk is other beloved ingredient. It’s being made by pressing with flesh of coconuts with water, and gives a meal a nice, mild, soft, round note that counterbalances the spiciness.

Lemongrass is also a generally used ingredient because it makes a dish taste pleasantly fresh. Separate sorts of herbs like Thai basilicum, ginger, galangal, tumeric and cilantro are also generally used. Note that in Thai cuisine, herbs are practically all the time used fresh, not dried. This is partly because fresh herbs tend to cool the body down in comparison to dried herbs, which often have “heating properties”.

Eating in Thailand: A Shared Experience

There is a positive incompatibility between the eating habits of Thai citizen and citizen from European or American descent. Western citizen tend to order isolate dishes, even when eating together. Thai citizen on the other hand order some dishes which will then be positioned in the middle of the table. Every person gets his own plate of rice, and then Every person eats from these foodladen plates. It is not tasteless to load your own food on your own table. Instead, you all the time take other spoonful from the shared plate, mix it with some rice, and eat it, and take other spoonful from the shared plates. Loading up food on your on plate is considered impolite for Thai people.

Vegetarian Food in Thailand?

Many citizen are under the impression that Thailand is a country where there are lots of vegetarians. However, this is not the case. Even most vegetarian dishes (like fried mixed vegetables) are ready with either fish sauce or oyster sauce (both of which are made from either fermented fish or oyster essence). If you characterize that you are vegetarian however, they will get ready vegetarian food for you, but you should then learn to characterize that in Thai before arriving in Thailand.

Beancurd is most often also just other condiment in a dish, and seldom the main ingredient. Even though it is generally used in Thailand, it most often is just added to a dish that contains meat for bigger variety.