Thai Cuisine in the Eyes of a Foreigner

It is time to talk about food. Before reading this article, we encourage you something pidzhyvytysya! Thai Cuisine proved to us very diverse and precisely Food for all time travel (after India and Sri Lanka). A variety of cuisine formed under the influence of neighboring China, Burma, Cambodia and Buddhism, which is very loyal to nutrition. The case concluded favorable climate and abundance of all kinds of edible plants in the Thai language was not even the word "hunger."

And in Thailand not only eat with chopsticks, as is common in Southeast Asia, you can also use a spoon and fork. Although Thais knife used not so readily, but it generally is not needed because the food is always comfortable cut into small pieces.

In the photo soup with noodles and beef.

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In Thailand, many family restaurants, the price is almost the same everywhere. But talk of similar meals may differ. Thai cuisine is no exact rules and recipes, the whole process depends on the skill of the chef.

Say what you like, but the basic ingredients are still not vomit — it's noodles and rice, the same as in India, but variations much more. If India is very difficult to find a soup, then Thailand would be difficult to try all their varieties.

For example, the same soup with noodles and beef, but cooked in a different restaurant:

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Another option:

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And this seems scary, but very tasty:

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The same, but without broth:

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Soup usual restaurant menu looks something like this (30 B = 1 dollar):

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And it does not mention rice — a staple food. Without it, no cost, no meal, this is the perfect side dish, any dish is best with rice. In Thailand, using several types of rice, depending on the region, but most Europeans like fried rice. By the way, many restaurants can not just submit a bowl with meal, be sure erected a wigwam. This fried rice with beef:

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This rice with seafood:

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His reincarnation in another restaurant:

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Rice with chicken. In a small blue platter — dressing, he gives food a real "Thai taste."

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Fried noodles with slices of chicken (pad thai):

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Thais do not limit themselves to rice and noodles, it seemed. Buddhism allows you to eat any meat, so a salad of frog legs are common. If you do not think that you eat a frog, the taste is pure chicken:

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In Thailand, many points of all sorts of food — restaurants is difficult to call. Trays of food occupy lanes, sidewalks and embankments. It seems that the Thais just that and doing that are going to eat or eat.

Typical street landscape:

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No matter where you go — around food, so it definitely has to be a hell of gourmet patient with gastric ulcer:

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All food is prepared on the street, even if the institution is room, you still prepare the street. Food cooked outdoors always tastier:

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This is another significant plus. Everything is prepared in front of you, so do not worry that you will be served soup a week ago.

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In Thailand, a popular fast food, but in his understanding. Roads cut through the carts with fried sausages.

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Thai barbecue:

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In such catering no specific location, and if today at your hotel there was no restaurant tomorrow before it can appear a whole gastronomic alley. Warm up and cook using gas cylinders:

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In Thailand, it is impossible to stay hungry even in traffic jams. Between the machines run "waiters" and carry food in packages:

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Prepare it in the nearest curb:

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Great idea, right?

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Thais are very fond of plastic bags, even water they sell.

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If you shrink trapeznichat the street, you can eat and cultured in the room. In Thailand and such restaurants democratic prices.

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Chinese dumplings:

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An excellent source of nutrition can become shopping centers, there are many restaurants with ridiculous prices:

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In such places there is a special system of payment. You must first buy a card and put money on it:

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Then go to the cashier, tytsnuty finger in the desired course and give the card to the cashier:

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If you can not proest whole amount is terrible, you can return the card and take rest. The main advice of this article — do not trust beautiful models, in that cultural place we picked for the first 4 months of food poisoning.

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Although everything seemed so sterile. Perhaps excessive purity — pure poison:

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Therefore zur-zur, back to the street food tested. You can order a meal on the gas burner and even eat all day cushy.

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It is not an easy life in Thai insects. Many of them never destined to become butterflies.

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Try the frog legs was easy, but the mood of worms summarized. So we can not say how they taste. Like appetizing:

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If you want to buy food on the go, you can go to market:

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Filling soups:

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You can even buy land on weight:

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And dried octopus:

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Usak smakota:

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As for drinks — everything is not so interesting. Mostly — it's tea.

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Although he, too, is different. Not just black and green:

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For example, orange or blue tea.

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Tea bartender:

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If you order tea, the more likely you bring ice tea, where occupy half the volume of ice. So be more specific in their desires.

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And still spent a lot of ice in Bangkok are special delivery service.

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Ice bags in commercials throughout the city.

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Finally — dessert. Thai goodies we liked, very tasty and not so lusciously, both in India and in Sri Lanka:

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Cookies are very similar to ours:

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Usual donuts us:

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And of course, fruit (not applicable to this photo).

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Memorize basic signs. Guava or Farang Thai. Thais believe that it is better to eat unripe guava, even though she tverduvata. Best umokaty unripe guava in a mixture of salt and sugar. When selecting guava pay attention to the fact that the fruit was smooth outside and it was not spots. At the touch of guava should be thick but not stiff.

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This is called hairy rambutan fruit. Rambutan delicious both raw and in mixtures of different sauces and fillings for pies. Right rambutan must be deep red in color.

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Finally — dragon fruit (pitaya). Probably the most famous Thai fruit required for use. Bright pink onion is very similar in consistency kiwi, just a different color.

Bon appetit! :)

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