Thailand Food and Recipes

The main food in Thailand is rice. Everyone has eaten it since they were born. But we can't really eat rice alone so we have to have something to go with it. There are many dishes of food to go with rice. Most of them are hot and spicy and that is what Thai food is famous for.

Thai people are used to eating rice with their meal. Most Thai people can't have sandwiches for their meal. They call sandwiches a snack. Also, most Thai people do not sit down to eat a proper meal because they usually eat when they are hungry, especially kids and teenagers. If you know some Thai person, you might hear them say "gin khao yung" every time you meet them. It means "have you eaten yet?" or more precise "have you eaten rice yet?". If you come to Thailand and stay with a Thai family then be careful you don't put on too much weight! All of the visitors that have come to stay at our school always go home weighing more!

Thai Food Today Tom Yam Kung

Main Ingredient Shrimp Rice straw mushroom Chilli paste Soup stock Citric acid Salt Fish sauce Sugar Lime juice Hot chilli Chilli paste Ingredient Dried Chilli Lemon grass Shallots Galangal Kaffir lime leaves Vegetable oil

500 g. 600 g. 150 g. 2,500 g. 10 g. 15 g. 100 g. 20 g. 15 g. 10 g. 10 g. 40 g. 40 g. 10 g. 5 g. 100 g.

Cooking Method

Chilli paste cooking Roast the chilli paste mixture and pound until ground then fry with oil and take aside.

-Peel the shrimp except its tail -Peel the mushroom, divide by two -Heat the soup stock and mix with all seasonings until boiling, add shrimps and mushroom and boil until done -Add the chilli paste to favorite taste

I spent most of the day at the Book Fair at Queen Sirikit Convention Hall. The big fairs are usually during the school holidays in April and October. I used to comment that Thai people don’t like reading much (apart from cartoon books), but every year more and more people go to these book fairs. Today was packed and I could hardly move. I bought quite a few books that I will share with you later, but first I want to show you this book which is all about the Top 10 of Thai Food! Obviously one of my favourite subjects. As you can see, the book is in Thai. I think I already have the best of the Thai cookery books. Most of them are quite limited and repeat themselves a lot. so, that is why today I was browsing through the cook books written by Thai people. A better selection for sure. I bought half a dozen cook books which will help me a lot identifying the ingredients of street food that I have already photographed. I could blog about Thai food every day, I am just lacking the information sometimes.