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Interestingly, Thailand is famous for its breathtaking views worldwide, warm-hearted locals, and its dishes. Refreshing and lively, the local and the street food of Thailand is affordable and incredible. Street food or a lavish meal in a restaurant, everything is worth it. Your vacation to Thailand will remain incomplete without having a taste of some of its most renowned dishes and cuisines famous in the whole world. Besides being nutritious and healthy, Thai food is an exceptional merger of different tastes and textures. It revolves around five essential tastes of salty, sweet, sour, spicy, and bitter. So folks, taste the unique foods of Thailand, and you will remember them for a lifetime.
Have a look at the whole list of some of the best foods in Thailand.
1. Pad Kra Prao (Fried Holy Basil In Chicken/ Beef/Mince/Pork)
The famous go-to Thai dish for locals when they are not sure what to eat today, the minced pork and rice à la carte is the dish when you can eat no matter what time of the day is. Usually served with steamed jasmine rice, Pad Kra Prao is paired with stir-fried minced pork and Thai holy basil and beautifully topped with sliced chili and some fish sauce. That dish is altered and is also served with chicken, beef, or seafood items fried along with cowpeas, basil, bamboo shoots, or with a fried egg.
2. Tod Mun Pla (Thai Fish Cake)
Tod Mun Pla is a decent choice for having a mouthwatering appetizer. It’s a fish cake created from a blend of fresh fish, organic leaves of lime, long beans, and Thai basil. Once it is deep-fried, it is served alongside a delicious spicy, sweet, and savory Thai dipping sauce. The spicy dip sauce is considered to the soul of Tod Mun Pla. It usually comes with sliced chilies, cucumbers, peanuts, sugar, peanuts, vinegar, and fish sauce.
3. Kao Ka Moo
A spectacle to feast your eyes as it is being prepared on the streets on Thai meal carts, this simmered pork leg cooked by slow braising is served with rice and pleases everyone present in the night market places. Food stalls at the side of the road, Kao Ka Moo, are cooked in big aluminum cooking pots in five-spice powder and soy sauce until real meat has become tender enough to come off from the mean easily. This slow-braised meat is afterward sliced into slim strips with cleavers, and then they are presented on a beautiful bed of rice combined with sour pickled veggies, bok choi, and half-boiled eggs.
4. Tom Kha Kai (Thai Chicken Coconut Soup)
Similar to tom yum goong, tom Kha kai is also a delicious soup dish. Some spices like shallots, kaffir lime leaves, galangal, and lemongrass are the basic ingredients in setting the exotic flavor of this soup, apart from chilies which are an exception here. Strips of tender chicken and fragrant mushrooms of Asia make the medium texture of this soup, whereas the smooth coconut milk is added in which mixes nicely with every other ingredient. Tom Kha Kai is perhaps the best dish of Thailand for individuals who aren’t looking for a spicy flavor and at the same time want the freshness of Thai foods.
5. Pad Thai (Thai Fried Noodles)
As Thailand’s signature, you will find Pad Thai in almost every Thai restaurant, whether they are rushy street food stalls or high-end Michelin-starred hotels in Bangkok. Pad Thai is a delicious blend of rice noodles fried in excessive quantities of delicious prawns, eggs, crispy bean sprouts, tofu pieces, onion, and peanuts grated marvelously. A squeeze of lemon juice completes the dish before you get to taste its rich ingredients.
6. Gaeng Ped Gai (Red Chicken Curry)
Great quantities of organic or dried red Asian chilies are crumpled in shallots, blue ginger, garlic, and lemongrass. Altogether, these rich ingredients create the foundation of the red paste of curry. As the chicken breast is infused into the red curry, it absorbs its rich flavor and smooth coconut milk. Afterward, tomatoes, mushrooms, and eggplants are added and cooked slowly in coconut milk. A decent addition of organic kaffir lime and basil leaves (sweet) offers the curry a balance with a refreshing aroma and is presented with jasmine rise, soft and steamed.
7. Kaho Soi
A notable staple from northern Thailand, this rice noodle soup in yellow curry is made in various ways, and you can find it in any place in Chiang Mai, whether it’s the street stalls or luxurious restaurants. Having its roots in Laos and Myanmar, Kaho Soi of Thailand is similar to its taste with massaman curry. In one bowl, fried and boiled egg noodles are added to the delicious yellow curry with sour pickled cabbage, shallots, minced pork, or chicken. Every time, this curry is served with different condiments such as coriander, lime, and chili paste. Having numerous variations of Kaho Soi all over Thailand, you will see people discussing the best curry in this country, particularly in Chiang Mai.
8. Yam Nua (Beef Salad)
Yam Nua having a spicy and fresh flavor is a revitalizing substitute to the global mango salad. Made from thin-sliced beef, it is cooked with garden-fresh mint with garlic, chili’s, onions, sliced shallots, and topped with tang juice of lime and fish sauce. The salad fresh and as well as gives it some heat.
9. Som Tum ( Green Papaya Salad)
Eaten by locals every day, this salad is refreshing and crispy and is loaded with Thailand’s authentic tastes. Having shredded papaya, tomatoes, snake beans, peanuts, garlic, and dried shrimps, it can be prepared within no time and is often available at Thailand’s roadside stalls.
10. Chicken With Yellow Curry
Thai chicken yellow curry has quite a mild taste compared to green and red curries’ zesty tastes. Thai yellow curry is very popular among individuals who like mild tastes, and likewise, kids love it because of its mellow flavor. Rather than adding huge quantities of green or red chilies, this yellow curry is high in turmeric and curry powder crushed along with cumin, galangal, coriander, lemongrass, shrimp paste, garlic and shallots, and coconut cream. As the curry starts to cook, chicken and vegetables are added to it.
11. Mookata Thai BBQ
If you are craving bbq, this is a nice dish to eat when you are out with your friends or family at a roadside bbq restaurant. With beers along, this classy meal is one of a kind. There are no specific ingredients to this dish as it is a hot pot buffet where you have the option to choose between different vegetables, fish, or meat according to your preference. The dome-like surface is utilized to barbecue the fillets of pork, chicken, or even beef, and the moat channel holds the fragrant soup, which is the main thing to cook the veggies you have chosen.
12. Panang Curry
The Thai Panang curry has a reddish-brown color, and it has a sweet flavor because of the coconut milk added to it. The nutty taste of this curry makes it more delicious. Not similar to the Thai green curry, but it only adds some sauce to make your bowl of rice more flavorful. The thing you will enjoy the most about the traditional Panang curry is the fresh leaves of the kaffir lime topped on the dish, giving it an incredible aroma and a soothing touch.
13. Gai Pad Pongal (Thai Yellow Egg Curry)
Whenever you talk about Gai Pad Pongali, two things come to your mind: rich and soothing. This Thai dish’s chief ingredient is the typical yellow curry powder that is simmered in your choice of protein. This dish’s exceptional magical ingredient is an egg added into it and giving it a thick egg taste, which makes it simply incredible. Some sliced chilies, onions, and celery make this curry exactly how it is supposed to be. Crab Pongali curry or boo Pongali curry are some other refined versions of this Thai yellow curry that you can buy from every seafood restaurant in Bangkok.
Conclusion
Known for its rich and unique flavors, Thailand attracts numerous tourists from all over the world for its food. Having an exceptional taste, whether they are noodles, curries, rice, or protein, every dish is cooked and assembled in rich spices, allowing you to enjoy every dish’s flavor. So if you are someone looking for spicy dishes or searching for mild tastes, Thailand will present you with a huge array of fine foods, street stalls, and exotic seafood, which would make your trip to Thailand a memorable one.