Taste of Thailand
Thai food has made its mark in restaurants and households all over the world. Amazing Thailand offers visitors a wider opportunity to explore culinary delights they only receive a hint of at home.
The traditional ingredients of Thai food have changed little up to the present day, consisting largely of seafood, and locally grown vegetables and fruits, a diet common to most of the country. What gives the distinctive Thai flavor, and the differing taste from region to region, are the carefully blended sauces and chilies. These go into dishes ranging from salty and bland soups to the spiciest salads and sweetest desserts, often all present within a single meal. The wide variety of Thai food tastes are owed to the combination of influences from various surrounding nations which, with Thai ingenuity, have culminated in one of the world's favorite cuisines.
The Northeast
The Northeast is famous for its spicy dishes but it really covers all taste extremes, being also strongly sour and salty. The most famous dish, a regional staple that can also be found all over the country is "Som Tam". A Thai salad that simultaneously covers the four extremes of taste, which is eaten with a form of sticky rice.
The North
For those whose taste buds shy away from the grand taste of the Northeast, the generally milder taste of Northern dishes may be more palatable. The Burmese influence is present in many dishes here in several mild curries.
The Central Plains
The cuisine of the Central Plains has over the years come to include influences of all the surrounding regions, and a meal usually includes everything from hot, spicy dishes to relatively bland ones. Here the sticky rice of the North is less common than plain rice. Many of the spicy soups, like tom yam and popular coconut milk curries, have their roots in this region.
The South
The proximity of India, and the religious Muslim influence have both shaped the taste of Southern Thai cuisine, with the focus always on seafood and vegetables, both in abundance in the region.
Age Old Dietary Way to Good Health
Long before the advent of modern medicine, or the recent interest in natural, drug free healing and illness prevention, ancient Thai 'doctors' discovered the basics of regular meals that double as medicine. The practice was simple, but effective.
For ailments derived from the hot climate, cooling foods, anything sweet or bitter like fruits and roots, would allow a balance of cool and hot body energy. To complement, cool weather symptoms were balanced by spicy and sour foods. This holistic system, which merges diet, daily life, and medicine, is only now being looked at by Western medicine for the benefits it has provided Thais for centuries.
Thai cooking schools
For visitors interested in making true Thai food, there is no better way to learn than from native cooks. no matter where the visitor may travel to in the Kingdom, there are cooking classes available, as there are nearby as many Thai cooking experts as there are households.
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