Pavement Food in Thailand
♫ July 8th, 2010 4:12 amThe basic Thai meal has rice, soup, a steamed dish, fried dish, fruit and salad. You will get the same food even at a stall along the pavements and it will be lip smackingly delicious! The dishes are all served at once and there is no particular order in which to eat. The locals eat the food with a fork and spoon. The fork is used for pushing the food into the spoon. They have soup all through the meal. Salt and pepper is hardly on the tables, but they have ‘phrik nam pla’, which is a fish sauce with added lime juice. This sauce is always served with meals.
The spices used in Thai cuisine are usually garlic and coriander. These are the basic spices used in Thai cooking. Then comes salt and pepper followed by chilies. The cook can add any spice which he may think will enhance the flavor of the dish.
The salads of Thailand are not at all similar to western salads. Thai salads include cabbage, raw vegetables and cucumber pieces.
The country has many regions and every region has its own specialty. In places like Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son and Chiang Rai, you can have unique dishes like fried grasshopper and field rat. Of course, it would require a strong disposition and stomach!
In Isram, the food is in Laos style and you can get food like fermented black crabs with sticky rice and also the papaya salad. If you go down along the Malaysian border, you can have the hot and spicy curries. The dishes have cashew nuts and also coconut milk.
You can drink anything you want along with Thai food. Beer and whiskey are preferred by the locals though.
Just go ahead and enjoy the different varieties of food that Thailand provides.