Introduction of Thai foods with herbs

          Thai foods are unique because a variety of herbs and hot pepers are used in preparation. There are more than five different kinds of hot peppers grown in Thailand which are used in Thai cuisine, so Thai food have a hot and strong taste.

          Each meal consists of two or three different kinds of main dishes. Each dish has a different taste ; hot, salty, sweet, or mild. Moreover, Thai foods are colorful also.

          When ever people say Thai food, they often think of food from central Thailand around  Bangkok. But Thailand have different colorful cuisines from each region ; North, Northeast, South, and Centre. Thai food has wide contrasts in color and texture, and moderate tastes depending on the region.

Thailand is the country which has many resources. Especially, rice is important for Thai people. Thais respect into rice and it is like holy thing , of Thai people. More than the century,Thai cooking is like the treasure from the elderly. And now,Thai food is popular in many countries.

Thai food has the long history. Many Thais and foreigners prefer to eat Thai food very much. Thai food is very tasty, there are five flavours – creamy, spicy, sweet, sour and salty. Mostly, Thai food is easy to cook and it can make in a short time. Every Thai kitchen must have the basic ingredients ; chilli, fish sauce, onion, garlic, shrimp paste ,etc. More than that meat and vegetable are cooking too. There are a lot of cooking methods such as stir-fried, deep-fried, curry, soup. In the past, some Thai food get influence from India, so spices is the important ingredient that cook into Thai food. Moreover, stir-fried get influnce from China too.Therefore, Thai food have more than 225 sorts.

Thai food usually cook with herbs. Herbs have many medical treats, so it is good for health. Thai food reflect to the Thai tradition and culture in the past. And Thai food is an unique style and it symbolises to Thailand also.

Five flavors of Thai food

1. SALTINESS : Mostly salty flavour in Thai cooking comes from fish sauce. Obviously, many Thai famillies have fish sauce and cook it in lots of Thai menu. Sometimes, Thai people cook with salt or soy bean sauce too.

2. SWEETNESS : Thai food usually cook with natural sugar. There are many types of sugar – refined sugar, palm sugar, and brown sugar. Moreover, each sugar has the different taste also.

3. SOURNESS : Many Thai menu mix with lime juice, vinegar or tamarind juice. It makes Thai food more taste when you eat.

4. SPICENESS : Chilli makes more spicy in Thai food. Lots of Thais decorate curry with fresh spur chillies. And dried spur chillies make the hot taste in Thai food.

5. CREAMY : Creamy flavours are from coconut cream and oil, especially Thai curry and dessert. For example, Green curry with chicken.