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Thailand is a tropical country near the sea and is extremely rich in greens, vegetables, seafood, and fruits. Therefore, Thai cuisine is mainly based on seafood, fruits and vegetables. Thai people's main meal is a big bowl of rice as the main food, accompanied by one or two curry dishes, a fish, a soup, as well as a salad (lettuce), the order of the meal does not pay attention to, according to personal preference. The snack is usually seasonal fruit or a variety of desserts made from flour, eggs, coconut milk and palm sugar. Because of its unique advantages, Thai food is colorful, red and green, with excellent eye appeal, whether it's the bright freshness of fresh vegetables and fruits, or the meatiness of squid and other seafood, all of which are a feast for the eyes.
Seasoning unique
The first time anyone tasted Thai food will find Thai food seasoning is very unique, there are a lot of seasoning is unique to Southeast Asia and even Thailand, can not be found in their own country. The most commonly used several seasonings are:
1, Thai lemon (Kaffir Lime)
Thai lemon is a Southeast Asia's unique seasoning fruit, flavor and individual are different from the United States lemon taste slightly sweet, and Thai lemon is small, sour taste, strong flavor, often make it smelled the fragrance of the people life-long, it can be used to make lemonade drinks, beer aroma, the main use is used to make Thai cuisine. The most important use is used to do Thai food seasoning, Thai people in almost every dish will be squeezed on the lemon juice, so that every dish is emitting a strong fruit aroma, with a typical Southeast Asian flavor. Thai people can say food without fish, but not without lemon.
2, fish sauce (Fish Sauce)
Fish sauce is a typical southern Thai seasoning, some people it is called white soy sauce, as the name implies, it is like soy sauce as a condiment, the practice of soy sauce and Chinese soy sauce is almost the same, the main thing is to let some of the small fish and shrimp fermentation drip juice and become. The flavor may make some people uncomfortable, because it has a strong smell of rotten fish and shrimp. Those who are not accustomed to eating fishy food will be turned off and hide their noses.
3, Thai Chao Tian Pepper
It is said that the Thai Chao Tian Pepper is the world's hottest chili. Thai called "rat shit chili", visible this is a very small but very hot chili. It is widely used in the Thai culinary arts, cooking without a few sprinkles of chopped artichokes, like eating Sichuan cuisine without spicy.
4, curry sauce
Coconut milk as the basic ingredients of curry sauce, there are many seasonings, including lemon grass, shrimp paste, fish sauce, and more than a dozen kinds of locally grown spices, chili peppers, from mild to very spicy are available to choose from. Thai culture is heavily influenced by Indian and Chinese cultures, and it has been said that the father of Thai culture is India. The influence can be felt in the curry sauce in Thai cuisine.
Lemon leaves and lemongrass are also common ingredients in Thai cuisine.
Variety
Thai food is influenced by Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian and even Portuguese influences, but with a strange mix of styles that make it unique and distinctive. Its practices are mainly the following:
1, Chinese frying pan on high heat and fast frying. This is a practice close to the Cantonese cuisine, fresh vegetables, accompanied by Thai-style seasoning, you can stir-fry a dish with an extremely fresh taste. The main masterpieces are: rice noodles (rice noodles stir-fried with shrimp, pork, egg and sweet and sour sauce), Thai curry chicken, coconut chicken (chicken sauce with lemon and coconut milk) and beef salad.
2, YAM. Currently there is no alternative Chinese. It is a combination of soup and gazpacho. Thailand is located in the tropics, and therefore gave birth to a number of famous YAM, the more famous one is called "SOMTAM" papaya salad, this salad to papaya shreds, shrimp, lemon juice-based, accompanied by fish sauce, garlic and miscellaneous crushed chili peppers, spicy taste.
3, stew. The hot subtropical climate has bred a rich soup culture. Soup for the Thai people is to maintain family harmony, enhance the lubricant of conjugal love, therefore, to Thailand to drink more soup, drink beautiful soup. Thailand's lemon shrimp soup taste extraordinary, the general public may be difficult to accept, first of all, the soup flavor is extremely spicy, and which put a lot of curry, therefore, only the taste of non-mainstream people can like.
Thailand has different dishes for different regions. Northeasterners love sticky rice with grilled chicken. Northerners favor a local sour meat called "naem". In the south, the food is heavily influenced by Malaysia's Muslim style and includes a variety of raw seafood.
Basic seating for Thai people:
Traditionally, Thais ate their meals sitting on the floor, but nowadays Thai restaurants have table and chair seating. As a result, there is no difference in the style of dining from Chinese food. If there is a difference in the age of the diners, they are seated in order from the top seat near the wall or furthest away from the door.
Early Thais traditionally ate their food in a free-flowing manner, using banana leaves to serve the rice and eating it with their hands. Today's Thai tableware is also very simple, with the basic utensils being a spoon and a pair of chopsticks, as well as a round plate. When eating, the rice is put into the round plate and the spoon is used to take the soup dishes to eat, while the chopsticks are used to hold the food.
How to Eat Thai Food
Because they are not accustomed to eating with a plate, many people feel a little uncomfortable when they first eat Thai food. As long as you know the right way to do it, it's not that difficult. The correct way to eat Thai food is to scoop up an appropriate amount of white rice on a plate, mix the food with the rice using a spoon, and then use the spoon to scoop up the rice from the inside of the body to the front in the same way as you would drink soup in Western cuisine, and then serve the rice when you are finished. Since there are many different kinds of dishes, don't serve too much rice at one time so that you don't have to mix all the dishes together, which makes it inconvenient for you to eat them all together. In addition, do not want to eat in order to facilitate the plate up to the mouth to pour, both elegant and rude.