Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic componts and a spicy edge. Australian chef David Thompson, an expert on Thai food, observes that unlike many other cuisines,
Thai cooking is about the juggling of disparate elemts to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happing underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all.
Traditional Thai cuisine loosely falls into four categories: tom (boiled dishes), yam (spicy salads), tam (pounded foods), and kag (curries). Deep-frying, stir-frying and steaming are methods introduced from Chinese cuisine.
Nam Phrik Long Ruea
In 2017, sev Thai dishes appeared on a list of the World's 50 Best Foods, an online poll of 35, 000 people worldwide by CNN Travel. Thailand had more dishes on the list than any other country: tom yam kung (4th), pad thai (5th), som tam (6th), massaman curry (10th), gre curry (19th), Thai fried rice (24th) and nam tok mu (36th).
Thai cuisine and the culinary traditions and cuisines of Thailand's neighbors, especially Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, India, Malaysia and Indonesia, have mutually influced one another over the course of many cturies.
According to the Thai monk Verable Buddhadasa Bhikku's writing, ‘India's Bevolce to Thailand’, Thai cuisine was influced by Indian cuisine. He wrote that Thai people learned how to use spices in their food in various ways from Indians. Thais also obtained the methods of making herbal medicines from the Indians. Some plants like sarabhi of the family Guttiferae, panika or harsinghar, phikun or Mimusops elgi and bunnak or the rose chestnut etc. were brought from India.
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According to a book 'Mae Krua Hua Pa' (first published in 1908) by Lady Plian Bhaskarawongse (ท่านผู้หญิงเปลี่ยน ภาสกรวงษ์), she found that Thai cuisine had a strong gastronomical cultural line from Sukhothai (1238–1448) through Ayuttthaya (1351–1767) and Thonburi period (1767–1782) vis-à-vis Siamese governmtal officers' daily routines (such as royal cooking) and their related cousins. Thai food during the Thonburi period tded to be more similar to that from the Ayutthaya period, except the addition of Chinese food resulted from her prosperous international trade.
Western influces, starting in 1511 wh the first diplomatic mission from the Portuguese arrived at the court of Ayutthaya, have created dishes such as foi thong, the Thai adaptation of the Portuguese fios de ovos, and sangkhaya, where coconut milk replaces cow's milk in making a custard.
These dishes were said to have be brought to Thailand in the 17th ctury by Maria Guyomar de Pinha, a woman of mixed Japanese-Portuguese-Bgali ancestry who was born in Ayutthaya, and became the wife of Constantine Phaulkon, a Greek adviser to King Narai. The most notable influce from the West must be the introduction of the chili pepper from the Americas in the 16th or 17th ctury. It, and rice, are now two of the most important ingredits in Thai cuisine.
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During the Columbian Exchange, Portuguese and Spanish ships brought new foodstuffs from the Americas including tomatoes, corn, papaya, pea eggplants, pineapple, pumpkins, culantro, cashews, and peanuts.
Regional variations td to correlate to neighboring states (oft sharing the same cultural background and ethnicity on both sides of the border) as well as climate and geography. Northern Thai cuisine shares dishes with Shan State in Burma, northern Laos, and also with Yunnan Province in China, whereas the cuisine of Isan (northeastern Thailand) is similar to that of Southern Laos, and by Vietnamese cuisine to its east. Southern Thailand, with many dishes that contain liberal amounts of coconut milk and fresh turmeric, has that in common with Indian, Malaysian, and Indonesian cuisine.
In addition to these regional cuisines, there is also Thai royal cuisine which can trace its history back to the cosmopolitan palace cuisine of the Ayutthaya kingdom (1351–1767 CE). Its refinemt, cooking techniques, prestation, and use of ingredits were of great influce to the cuisine of the ctral Thai plains.
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Thai royal cuisine has be influced by the Khmer royal cuisine through the Khmer palace cooks brought to the Ayutthaya Kingdom during its conquests of the Khmer Empire.
Typically, Thai royal cuisine has basic characteristics that are close to the basic food prepared by geral people. However, Thai royal cuisine focuses on the freshness of seasonal products. Other than that, it is crucial that the way in which Thai royal food is cooked, should be complex and delicate.
La Loubère, an voy from France during the reign of King Narai, recorded that the food at the court was gerally similar to villager food. What makes Thai Royal cuisine differt food is its beautiful prestation. For example, they served fish and chick with the bones removed, and the vegetables were served in bite-sized portions. In addition, if beef is used, it should be tderloin only.
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There are many types of Thai royal cuisine such as ranchuan curry, nam phrik long ruea, matsaman curry, rice in jasmine-flavored iced water or khao chae, spicy salad, fruit, and carved vegetable.
Thai chef McDang, himself descded from the royal family, asserts that the differce betwe royal Thai cuisine and regular Thai cuisine is fiction. He maintains that the only differce betwe the food of the palace and that of the common people is the former's elaborate prestation and better ingredits.
While seated on mats or carpets on the floor or coffee table in upper middle class families, customs still found in more traditional households. Today, however, most Thais eat with a fork and spoon. Tables and chairs were introduced as part of a broader Westernization drive during the reign of King Mongkut, Rama IV. The fork and spoon were introduced by King Chulalongkorn after his return from a tour of Europe in 1897 CE.
Thai Food Names
Important to Thai dining is the practice of khluk, mixing the flavors and textures of differt dishes with the rice from one's plate. The food is pushed by the fork, held in the left hand, into the spoon held in the right hand, which is th brought to the mouth.
It is common practice for both the Thais and the hill tribe peoples who live in Lanna and Isan to use sticky rice as an edible implemt by shaping it into small, and sometimes flatted, balls by hand (and only the right hand by custom) which are th dipped into side dishes and eat.
Chopsticks were foreign utsils to most ethnic groups in Thailand with the exception of the Thai Chinese, and a few other cultures such as the Akha people, who are rect arrivals from Yunnan Province, China. Traditionally, the majority of ethnic Thai people ate with their hands like the people of India. Chopsticks are mainly used in Thailand for eating Chinese-style noodle soups, or at Chinese, Japanese, or Korean restaurants. Stir-fried noodle dishes such as drunk noodles, pad see ew, and pad thai, and curry-noodle dishes such as khanom chin nam ngiao, are also eat with a fork and spoon in the Thai fashion.
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Thai meals typically consist of rice (khao in Thai) with many complemtary dishes shared by all. The dishes are all served at the same time, including the soups, and it is also customary to provide more dishes than there are guests at a table. A Thai family meal would normally consist of rice with several dishes which should form a harmonious contrast of flavors and textures as well as preparation methods. Traditionally, a meal would have at least five elemts: a dip or relish for raw or cooked vegetables (khrueang chim) is the most crucial compont of any Thai meal.
Khrueang chim, considered a building block of Thai food by Chef McDang, may come in the form of a spicy chili sauce or relish called nam phrik (made of raw or cooked chilies and other ingredits, which are th mashed together), or a type of dip riched with coconut milk called lon. The other elemts would include a clear soup (perhaps a spicy tom yam or a mellow tom chuet), a curry or stew (esstially any dish idtified with the kag prefix), a deep-fried dish, and a stir-fried dish of meat, fish, seafood, or vegetables.
A plate of raw vegetables and herbs, together with nam phrik kapi, is oft served as a complimtary dish at southern Thai eateries.
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In most Thai restaurants, diners will have access to a selection of Thai sauces (nam chim) and condimts, either brought to the table by wait staff or prest at the table in small containers. These may include phrik nam pla/nam pla phrik (fish sauce, lime juice, chopped chilies and garlic), dried chili flakes, sweet chili sauce, sliced chili peppers in rice vinegar, Sriracha sauce, and ev sugar. With certain dishes, such as khao kha mu (pork trotter stewed in soy sauce and served with rice), whole Thai peppers and raw garlic are served in addition to the sour chili sauce. Cucumber is sometimes eat to cool the mouth with particularly spicy dishes. They oft feature as a garnish, especially with one-dish meals. The plain rice, sticky rice or the khanom chin (Thai rice noodles) served alongside a spicy Thai curry or stir-fry, tds to counteract the spiciness.
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