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The Thai Mango – A Luscious and Precious Staple
The Thai mango is known as "Ma Muang" in Thai, although this varies by region. For example, in the Northern region a mango is also known as "Pae," and in the South as "Pao." The mango is rich in symbolic meaning. As part of the feng shui tradition, for generations many Thais have believed that growing a mango tree on the south side of the house will bring prosperity to the family. More broadly, mangoes are so widely enjoyed in Thailand and surrounding countries that they truly do represent a precious part of the culture. There are perhaps more than one hundred types of Thai mangoes, many of them hybrids developed in Thailand. The mango ...
How and what do Thais eat?
The majority of Thais do not use many of the formal eating manners of Westerners; Thais have their own set of manners based largely on practices of communal eating. Thais put a lot of emphasis on eating as a social activity. For Thais, eating should be a simple pleasure and does not involve complex rituals of etiquette. Today, a fork and spoon are widely used, and the general practice is to use the fork to push food onto the spoon. The spoon is generally held in the right hand and serves as the only utensil from which to take bites. Eating straight from the fork is considered crude. The use of the fork and spoon ...
Creating Thai Food To Your Taste
The art of Thai cooking has been developed and refined over many centuries. This art has placed emphasis on the harmonious blending of various ingredients, particularly as the individual ingredients can vary by freshness and so forth. Without harmony the taste and the dish fall short. The art of Thai cooking not only emphasizes harmony of taste, but also places value on the use of color and texture in a dish. Over the centuries, most Thai dishes have drawn from the realm of herbs, roots, plants, spices and seeds to perfect the flavor, texture and presentation of a dish. The five elements of taste in Thai food are: sweet, salty, sour, spicy and bitter. There are ...
Mouth-Watering Thai Desserts
Thai cuisine is famous for its intriguing delicacy and spiciness. However, Thai desserts have been overlooked. The three Thai desserts famous outside of Thailand are mango with sticky rice, deep-fried bananas and coconut ice cream. There is a broad tradition of desserts in Thailand over the centuries which offers many ideas and choices. Thong Yip, Thong Yod and Foi Thong Thai desserts have long been with the Thai people, certainly back to the Sukhothai period (1238-1350). Thais had long traded with China and India, which helped in exchanging cultures and traditions as well, including food. In the Ayuthaya period (1350-1767), Thais started trading with Western countries. The Portuguese were the first westerners to introduce the use ...
Thai Coconuts – What More Could You Want?
Coconuts are the seeds that grow coconut trees. Given time, a coconut will sprout and take root. The juice and flesh of the coconut provide water and fertilizer to grow the young new tree. Coconut trees are grown throughout Thailand on raised beds with irrigation canals on each side. In some places, trained monkeys even harvest the coconuts. Coconuts provide juice to drink, flesh for eating or for making coconut milk, and play a role in many non-food items as well. Coconut trees are treated as propitious in Thailand. They are often included in gardens along with other trees that include the word “ma” – for example, ma muang (mango), ma la gor (papaya) and ma ...
Famous Thai Food and Cuisines at Thai Restaurants In Phuket
Thai food is gaining popularity these days probably due to its delectable and sublime flavors and truly, there is no better way to get a taste of Thai cuisine than taking a vacation there, especially Phuket. From the smallest street cart to the high end chic restaurants, Thai food is generally amazing. You can try out various kinds of Thai cuisine, by eating either from the street vendors, a chic restaurant or at one of those restaurants found in five star hotels. When you go out to dine in one of the many Thai restaurants in Phuket, you will find many Thai restaurants offering a wide range of delicious food made by expert chefs who like ...
How To Make Thai Food Recipes A Smart Choice
Thai food is a lot more than just curry we eat every day life. If you are bored with your dish and want to try a new Thai dish, you have come at right place. You are requested to give eclectic Thai food a chance with its robust flavours and grilled specialties. Street food in Thailand hugely involves stalls with grills, noodle soups, curry on rice, and sausages that fire up at late into the night. Depending heavily on fresh aromatic ingredients, Thai Spices has a substantially spiked spice quotient but maintains a delicate sweet and sour balance. We are providing tips for making one of the best Thai recipes named Satay Gai. Give this easy-to-make ...
Thai Food
"Thai food offers a variety of flavours and tastes. The subtle mixing of herbs and spices and market-fresh ingredients makes dining a special culinary experience." Eating ranks high on the Thai scale of pleasures, and meals are informal affairs. The staple is rice, either ordinary or glutinous, accompanied by a variety of dishes that can be eaten in almost any order, and seasoned to individual taste with several condiments such as fish sauce and chilli peppers. Most often there will be a soup of some kind, a curry, a steamed or fried dish, a salad, and one or more basic sauces. Desserts may consist of fresh fruit or one of the many traditional Thai sweets. Much of ...
Eating Thai Food the Right Way
Eating Thai food with non-Thais always reminds me how different our eating habits are. Although you're probably not going to offend anybody by holding your spoon the wrong way or taking to much yam wun sen, understanding how Thai people eat will undoubtedly smooth your way and maybe even provide a greater understanding of the food and people. And chicks love it. So here are a few tips on how to eat like the Thais do: 1. Order a balance of dishes. I know you all want to eat phat thai, but it's actually a jaan diaow, a one-plate meal typically enjoyed by one person eating alone. When eating with others, try to order dishes that ...
Basic Thai Dishes
The majority of diverse cuisines will have recipes that taste a bit different based on whether you are making them in your own home or at different dining establishments around town. Although the particulars might be a little diverse, the core of the dish remains the very same. If you would like to claim that you are able to make Thai food, you have to be able to prepare a standard version of the following five dishes. Stir fry With Beef or Chicken Most stir fry food is pretty hot and spicy, but is lighter in nature. There are normally a lot of diverse vegetables within the dish as well as several sorts of nuts. You can ...
