Thai food is hot and sour, appetizing and addictive. That's because Thai food has unique seasonings, many of which are unique to Southeast Asia and even Thailand. The most commonly used seasonings are:
1. Thai lemon Thai lemon is small, sour and rich, and it is often unforgettable after smelling it. It can be used to make lemon juice drinks, beer seasonings, and most importantly, it can be used as a seasoning for Thai food. Thai people squeeze lemon juice in almost every dish, which makes it rich in fruit flavor and typical Southeast Asian flavor.
2. Fish sauce Fish sauce is a typical seasoning in southern Thailand. It is a seasoning like soy sauce, which is fermented by some small fish and shrimp.
3. Thai morning pepper This is a very small but very spicy pepper. It is said that Thai morning pepper is the hottest pepper in the world.
4. Curry sauce Curry sauce is based on coconut milk and has many seasonings, including lemongrass, shrimp sauce, fish sauce and more than ten kinds of locally grown spices and peppers, ranging from mild to extremely spicy, so anyone can choose.
In addition, lemon leaves and citronella are also commonly used ingredients in Thai cuisine.
Thai tastes are: spicy, like to put fish sauce and monosodium glutamate in dishes, but don't like soy sauce, don't like to eat braised food, and don't put sugar in dishes. Thailand's national flavor "curry rice" is made of rice, sliced meat (or fish) and vegetables mixed with spicy soy sauce. Thai people like to eat fish, shrimp, chicken, eggs and so on. Generally speaking, they don't like eating beef or drinking. The order of eating is not particular, just personal preference. After-dinner snacks are usually seasonal fruits or various desserts made of flour, eggs, coconut milk and palm sugar. Thai food is colorful, red and green, and has excellent vision, which can make people feast their eyes.
Fish, shrimp and crab are the main dishes in Thai restaurants, and barbecue food is the representative of Thai cooking technology, including barbecue, roast chicken leg, grilled fish, grilled lobster, grilled sea crab, roasted banana, roasted sweet potato and roasted egg. In Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, there is also an unforgettable "Du Kang" dinner. The host and guests attending the party must wear indigo collarless shirts, and men should wear a cloth scarf around their waists. Everyone must take off their shoes when entering the restaurant. There are no stools in the dining room, only a small round table called "Du Kang". After the host enters the restaurant, every five or six people form a circle, sitting cross-legged on the floor and putting the tableware on the ground. At the beginning of the banquet, drink cold drinks first, and then serve. The dishes are all famous dishes. Rice is glutinous rice, which is put in a bamboo basket and kneaded into a ball by hand. Enjoy folk music and folk dances while eating.
Unique Thai soups and dishes
Thai food is deeply influenced by China, Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian and even Portuguese, but it is unique and has a unique taste. Its practice mainly includes the following points.
Cooking in a wok in China. This is a practice similar to Cantonese cuisine. Fresh vegetables with Thai seasoning can stir-fry dishes with extremely fresh taste. The main representative works are: rice noodles (fried with shrimp, pork, eggs and sweet and sour sauce), Thai curry chicken, chicken coconut (chicken juice with lemon and coconut milk) and beef salad.
Yam (no alternative Chinese has been found). It's a bit like a combination of soup and cold salad. Thailand is located in the tropics, so many famous yams have been cultivated. One of the most famous is the papaya salad named "SOMTAM". This salad is mainly made of shredded papaya, shrimp and lemon juice, mixed with fish sauce, garlic and chopped pepper, and has a spicy taste.
Stewed soup For Thai people, stewed soup is a lubricant to maintain family harmony and enhance the relationship between husband and wife. The lemon and shrimp soup in Thailand has a unique taste, which may be difficult for foreigners to accept. First of all, the soup is very spicy, and there is a lot of curry in it. So only foreigners with special taste will like it.
The world calls Thailand a "land of plenty" and Bangkok a "gourmet capital". "Glutinous rice pilaf" is one of the most popular diets in Bangkok. In addition, there are zongzi (a kind of zongzi wrapped in special green leaves, only the size of an egg), fried bananas (peeled bananas wrapped in sugar are fried to brown in an oil pan), fried corn, sweet potato soup, coconut shell ice cream and so on, all of which are full of local flavor.