Thursday, July 24, 2008

Amazing Thai Food

Each country has its own characteristics that represent its culture. Food is one of the major characteristics that distinguish the country. Do you know that Thai food is very popular in the world? Each region of Thailand has varieties of food. Which you can buy to eat easy and each region has its own unique taste. Furthermore, it is very useful for our health. The food of Thailand can be classified into four regions including food of the north, food of the center, food of the south and food of the north-east.

One region of Thailand with its own distinctive style of food is Northern Thailand. Food from this area consists of vegetable and meat. The Northern people prefer to eat meat such as pork, beef, chicken, duck, and bird. Food is usually medium cooked. Northen food is often salty but rarely sweet or sour. Special dishes from the north is "namprik" and it includes vegetable which is available in the local area. A popular dish is Thai rice noodle "namkgnuay". Because the north of Thailand is far from the sea, seafood is scarce. Therefore, seafood is usually expensive. People of the north usually lack Iodine. The food of the north is unique because it has many special food and many medicinal herbs. It's full of nutrients and tasty. It's one of the most amazing type of Thai food.

Rice is staple component of Thai cuisine, as it as of most Asian cuisines. The highly prized, sweet-smelly jasmine rice is indigenous to Thailand. This naturally aromatic long-grained rice grows in abundance in the verdant patchwork of paddy fields that blanket Thailand's central plains. Thai food is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh herbs and spices as well as fish sauce. The dish " nam prik pla too " is particularly common in central Thailand because of its low cost. The ingredient found in almost all Thai dishes and every region of the country is " nam pla ", a very aromatic and strong tasting fish sauce. Uses a wide variety of leaves and flavour of kaffir lime leaves appears in nearly all Thai soup or curry from those areas. The hot and sour tom yam. Pad thai be careful about insects in vegetable leaves.

The South of Thailand is a third region with its special style of food. People of this area are hot tempered. So the food this area is very spicy .Others wide variety of gang (spiced soup or curry) for examples, gang liang, gang tai pla, and budu sauce.Special dishes are sataw, med riang and look niang. Sataw is a green pod when stripped reveals green berries and look niang is a round berry in a hard and dark green skin. Although the food of south so delicious but some food of south is so spicy it could make you a stomachache.The Thailand food of south area is very delicious. You don't surprised that, why does this food this area is popular to every rugion of Thailand.

The last region with own style of food is the north-east.
Thai food of this area very spicy, varied and delicious. There are meals eaten with steamed glutinous rice. Spiced ground meat with red pork blood. And meat could be frog, lizard, snake, rice field rat. On the other hand meat is often roasted or grilled. Special dishes at this area is papaya salad or som tam, roasted fish, roasted chicken, jim-jaem, ant rotted fish or pla ra. The last is large red ants. Pork, beef and chicken are preferred by well to do families. Although north-eastern food is delicious, be careful when you eat dishes such as fermented fish, which can contain parasites if not prepared correctly. If you like to eat the food of north-eastern, welcome to my countryside. You can choose to eat what your favorite. And we make sure you will so happy.

In conclusion, Thai food is popular around the world because of its unique and diverse taste, which varies in different regions. However, Thai food is not only delicious, but it can also be medicinal. Whether for its taste or its healing properties, it's is hard to resist Thai food!

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