Many lovers of exotic dishes prefer it Thai cuisine. What is its advantage? The fact is that Thai people are excellent culinary specialists; they cook their dishes from fresh fruits, vegetables, rice, fish and spices. To taste so much interesting culinary ideas need to visit this country, because repeating something like this is impossible.
When you walk through the narrow streets of the city, you feel a spicy aroma dishes that are prepared right on the street. Local food has unique taste and all thanks to fresh products and skillfully mixed spices.
It is impossible to pass by without trying so interesting delicacy. Both main courses and desserts are sold on the streets. as well as fresh fruits and vegetables.
History of Thai Cuisine
Thailand is located on the crossroads of several states Of Asia. Everyone who drove past this island, made their own cooking traditions. For this reason, Thai food can call international since it is a mixture Eastern and European cultures.
The Chinese have made a big impact on Thai cooking since Thai ancestors lived in China and incorporated the foundations of Chinese the kitchen. We can say that Thai cuisine is a combination of traditions many states, regarding variety of flavors, additions different spices, the use of special dishes.
The food ration depends on the season, although the Thais never suffer from hunger. The territory of the islands of Thailand surrounded by water inhabited by marine inhabitants such as various types of fish, shrimp, algae. The hot climate also gives the opportunity to collect several crops per year. Huge rice fields feed both their citizens and people throughout the earth. Fruitful fruit trees and exotic vegetables will not leave hungry not a single resident.
Rice is the main dish of Thai cuisine, borrowed from the Chinese. Not one feast is not complete without traditional cooked on a couple of rice, because this is the main dish that is served with different side dishes of meat, fish or vegetables.
Rice is cooked with a neutral taste without the addition of spices, such cooking method allows you to achieve the desired taste with adding different sauce. Prepare it crumbly at a special technology.
Thais love long-grain rice, from which the main dishes and round sticky for desserts. Most often rice consumed with curry sauce. Travelers from India taught season curry food and now this spice is a must any table at the Thai.
The Portuguese also influenced the formation of Thai cuisine, because it was they who brought paprika and probably tomatoes to Thailand. Most dishes are served with yellow, green and red paprika. Thanks to paprika and curry, the taste of Thai cuisine is truly oriental and unique.
Thai Cooking Methods
Most Thai dishes are cooked in a deep skillet, called wok – this cooking method has gone over inheritance from relatives – the Chinese. Food is prepared enough quickly and retains all the useful properties. The whole secret is that food is prepared only by lightly frying or boiling. Even the meat is cooked in such a miracle pan only to a golden crust. First on hot oil fried spices such as ginger, red pepper, and only then put meat and vegetables, which are slightly toast.
If you stew the broth, you get stew or a thick soup that Thais also love. Steamed fish are cooked in a wok. Cooking technology is to use leaves banana in which the fish is wrapped and placed in special bamboo baskets that put in boiling water in a wok.
Street food vendors also use banana leaves to replace plastic plates, this method is cheap and does not pollute ecology. Food looks even more attractive when lying on a large green leaf.
Traditional Thai Food
Rice is the staple food, but it is by no means the only common dish. The role of the main course can take the soup. Traditional Thai noodle soup made with the addition of meat and vegetables. Thai noodles reminiscent of Italian pasta. The most popular types are thin flat plates (linguine) and traditional spaghetti known to everyone. Cook noodles from wheat, rice or bean flour. Interesting method making transparent mung bean noodles such pasta unusually thin and tasty. Thais are preparing and an analogue of Italian egg noodles.
The most popular soup is Tom Yam, which has a sour-spicy taste and prepared from lemongrass, coconut and fish sauce with the addition of spices. Such a soup is very fragrant due to spices, hearty because that there is fish and refreshing thanks to lemongrass. For lovers of Tom Yam sells a special paste that contains everything necessary ingredients for cooking. This dish took eighth a place among the fifty most delicious dishes in the world.
There are many types of soup Tom Yam, it all depends on the main ingredients. Tom yum gai – soup with chicken or tom yam paa – with fish and cheese. Tom Yam Gung – a sour, spicy shrimp soup. Seafood in Thailand is a must-have ingredient for cooking food. The Thai people are famous for their stuffed fish sauces which is taken from the depths of the sea.
Interesting and unique tastes of fish sauces amaze tourists who like to try something new. Sauces served as an addition to the main course or as a dressing for salads. Thai cuisine is impossible to imagine without seafood. One of your favorite dishes is a thick shrimp paste, which is called kapi. Whole pasta is produced villages. It is served with vegetables or fish, as well as with such fruit like mangoes. Thailand is not afraid of bold combinations of tastes and it stands out from other nationalities.
Without spices, Thai cuisine would not be so exotic and unusual. After all, spices not only complement the harmony of taste, but also serve to maintain health. In the east, as in Thailand, cook spicy dishes because the hot climate contributes to different infections. Such food helps the body cope with possible bacteria and neutralize harmful processes in the body. Also the sharpness of spices allows you to retain moisture in the body and raise immunity.
Many types of spices grow only in the east and Europeans do not are familiar. Well-known spices such as cloves and ginger widely used in different countries, but their taste is completely not similar to Thai. The reason for this is a different climate and soil. Also spices unknown to a wide circle that grow only in the islands.
Such vegetables grow in Thailand that to see them and try possible only in these latitudes. This is an amazing nation that maybe there’s absolutely everything, starting with the flowers of some plants and ending with insects. Nothing is missed, but everything is in use. True, for Europeans such food is not very acceptable, but many want to try such a delicacy.
The most unique delicacy of Thai cuisine is exotic fruits that grow only in Thailand. Many of these fruits never reach European countries, the reason is that they are not subject to storage and transportation. Fruit usually consumed without preparation. The most popular, for example, such like papaya, mango, lychee, rambutan. Thai food is so diverse, which offers tourists not only the basic dishes, but also different desserts. For example, mint jelly is called chokukai, coconut pudding with jasmine flavor – tacos or a variety of pies and puddings with fruits.
There is no heavy food, as the Thai people eat a lot vegetables and rice. The main emphasis in food on vegetation, although there is dishes using meat. Rice is often eaten with chicken, pork, beef. And also meat is cooked as a separate dish, e.g. fried chicken with ginger, coconut meatball curry and much more variety.
Traditional thai drinks
Among the drinks, Thai people love to drink tea and coffee. Thai tea is similar to Indian strong black tea with milk and spices. Coffee drink cold – coffee beans are mixed with corn, cocoa beans. Serve coffee with condensed milk or syrup. If speak about spirits then the thailand love rice wine wholesome a product that you can not only eat, but also make the drinks.
Thailand’s food culture focuses on eating wholesome food that has excellent palatability and attractive view. The rules of etiquette at the table, as such, are not exists. Thai people are simple, they rarely use dining rooms appliances mainly eat food by hand. They even eat rice forming balls from it with his hands and dip them into the sauce. For noodles and soup use chopsticks. But for those who don’t know how to eat, forks and spoons are always ready.
Thai cooks are masters of their craft, this country takes foremost carving on fruits and vegetables. Nowhere in the world decorate dishes with figures of fruits. This is an art that is owned not many, because it is important not only to make a tasty dish, but also decorate it harmoniously.
Thailand is a country worth visiting, it’s all a piece oriental culture that displays life full of colors and aromas. The Thai people are hospitable people and always welcome guests. Sometimes it seems that these islands are a separate world with their own traditions. and a unique culture that is worth seeing with your own eyes.
