The best experience you can ever have while traveling to Thailand is trying the country’s cuisine. Mixing saltiness, sweetness, sourness, and spiciness in every dish, Thai food is truly a work of art. This combination of flavors is highlighted with the decoration of the dishes and the delicious fragrance. This Top 5 Thai Food you MUST try will surely make your mouth water!
There’s definitely a lot to try and you can choose to either have individual or shared dishes. Besides, the main dishes are accompanied by several tasty meals. But having Thai food is more than just eating; it’s all about sharing and enjoying it together. In other words, Thai food doesn’t only fill the emptiness of your stomach. It also has the power to make you closer to the people you’re eating with.
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Here is a list of the most iconic and delicious food of Thailand that you cannot miss out on!
Yum Woon Sen (Glass noodle salad)
It’s a very popular dish in Thailand, made of simple ingredients. Glass noodles, lime juice, cilantro or Chinese celery, peanuts or nuts, and a special dressing. However, other ingredients can be added to the salad, such as tomatoes, shrimps and crispy pork. This dish doesn’t have a lot of ingredients, but it’s exactly that simplicity what makes it so tasteful. The bland glass seasoned noodles mixed with the spicy and sour flavor of the dressing, coupled with the crunchiness of the peanuts… It’s all you need to awaken your palate. But don’t worry too much if you cannot deal with spicy food very well. The hot flavor of the dish is balanced with the freshness of the cilantro and the lime juice.
Tom Yum Gung (Spicy shrimp soup)
Tom Yum Gung is a variety of the well-known Tom Yum soup. These herbs are only garnish, but they are essential to give the soup that heartwarming herbal infusion. The Tom Yum Gung is a shrimp soup, combining the sourness and spiciness of the soup with the texture of the shrimp and the fragrance of the herbs. The visual contrast between the green herbs and the red soup is enough to make your mouth water.
Som Tam (Green Papaya salad)
Som Tam salad, also known as Green Papaya salad, is one of the national dishes of Thailand and can be found in any part throughout the country. In this one single dish you have together all the flavors of south-east Asian gastronomy, and although it’s a low-calorie dish, it’s very tasteful and savory. If you haven’t tried a green Papaya, its flavor, crunchiness, and freshness can be compared to a cucumber. The green papaya, mixed with roasted peanuts and green beans, adds that extra crunchy texture to the salad; besides, it goes perfectly well with the delightful spicy, sweet and sour dressing.
Moo Satay and Peanut Sauce
Moo Satay is grilled meat accompanied by the satay or peanut sauce, and cucumber and onion salad. A very important ingredient in this dish is the coconut milk, essential to make the sweet and spicy peanut sauce and to marinate and tender the pork. This snack is very popular among street food in Thailand and has all the characteristics that other Thai food has. The meat is delicious, fragrant, perfectly salty and tender, and goes amazingly well with the sweet and spicy satay sauce.
Pad Thai
Last but not least, the Pad Thai is very well-known, not only in Thailand but also in other parts of the world. The rice noodles are stir-fried with eggs and chopped firmed tofu; also, you can add some roasted peanuts to have a nice contrast in texture. The Pad Thai is salty but at the same time spicy, sour and sweet, because of the red chili pepper, the lime juice, and the sugar. Other ingredients that complement each other in this traditional dish are tamarind juice, dried shrimp and fish sauce. All these flavors and textures represent very well what Thai food is all about, and leave no doubt as to why it has been chosen as Thailand National dish.
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