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Thai
food - what to eat.
Thai food is well known
for it's spicy qualities, although there are many mild dishes available.
Rice is the staple food of Thailand and is served with most dishes.
Rice noodles are served in fried dishes and soups. Thai cuisine
is full of variety, flavour and nutrition, meat and vegetables are
lightly fried or boiled.
Here are a selection of popular Thai dishes we would recommend
you try.
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| Pad Thai is known as Thailand's national
dish, it is made with noodles, bean curd, vegetables, egg, peanuts
and dried shrimps. |
Noodle soup is made
with noodels, vegetables, meat and meat balls, it is the only
dish eaten with chop sticks. |
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| Rice soup
is a breakfast meal, often an egg is added which cooks as it
is stirred in. |
Sticky rice is glutinous
rice that is eaten with the fingers and served in a lidded basket. |
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| Penang curry
is a spicy dry curry made with chicken, beef, pork or shrimp
and red chilies. |
Green curry
is a mild curry cooked with coconut milk and green chilies. |
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| Steamed Rice
is always served first and accompanies most meals. |
Tum Yam is Thailand's
most famous soup, it is made with shrimps, tomatoes, lemon grass
and chilies. |
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| Seafood salad
is spicy mixed seafood with lemon juice served on lettuce. |
Mango with sticky rice
is served with sweet coconut cream. Thailand's most well known
dessert. |
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