Thai Cuisines to Try When You Are Travelling to Thailand

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If you want to visit the glorious golden beaches, legendary parties, perfect views of the full moon, and most importantly, scrumptious food; then, Thailand is the perfect place for you to visit! Thai cuisines are known for their freshness and fragrance. No matter what might be your reason to stay here, the abundance of delicious flavors would definitely excite you to extend your stay for relishing the mouth-watering delicacies.

Some of the dishes worth trying in Thailand are:

Phat Thai

The Phat Thai was invented in 1930s by a Chinese Thai chef. The dish consists of thin rice noodles that are stirred with eggs, tofu and shrimps. It is mixed with fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, dry chillies and tamarind to make a perfect Thai cuisine.

Tom Yam

Herb forward broth is known as the Sour Thai soup in the menus of many hotels. The shrimp version of the Tom Yam Kung soup is the most well-liked dish. This is the perfect combination of fatty prawns and spicy soup. This is an unusual but delicious Thai amalgam.

Laap

The northeast Thai dish is the most rustic one and it is also known as the larb or larp. It takes form of the minced meat, which is perfectly mixed with roasted rice powder, fish sauce, fresh herbs and lime juice. You should have it with sticky, short and fat grains of rice, which are steamed perfectly.

Khao soi

When you are in North Thailand, you should definitely try curry-based noodle soup. It is made of chicken or beef, lime, sliced shallots and crunchy pickled greens, which is served with rich, spice-laden, coconut-milk-based broth and soft & squiggly wheat & egg noodles.

Som Tam

Som Tam is a dish that is the specialty of rural northeast Thailand. The dish contains crunchy unripe papaya, perfectly cooked with mashed tomato, long beans, lime, chilli and fish sauce that has found foothold in almost all corners of the country. You may mix this dish with sticky rice to prepare a light yet piquant Thai meal.

Phat Kaphrao

This is a street food, a staple one, which combines flash fried meat with basil and some fresh chilli and garlic. It is served with rice and is decorated beautifully with fried eggs. This is the epitome of a Thai-style dish.

Green Curry

For Thai food, there is no food perfect as a starter than the combination of herbal spice paste and rich coconut milk. You may have this with jasmine rice as it is not meant to be had as a soup.

Yam

Yam is a perfect side dish or a drinking snack and it is considered to be Thai salad. This is cooked with a combination of meat or seafood with spicy dressing and fresh herbs. The best way of having this is by combining slinky glass noodles with minced pork or shrimps.

Kai Yang

Kai yang is grilled chicken with a unique mixture of fish sauce, garlic and coriander roots. This is one of the most legendary Thai meals, as it combines sticky rice with raw papaya salad.