Why Is Thai Food So Tasty?

Thai cuisine is renowned for being fragrant, full of flavour and very spicy. Each dish tries to incorporate four flavours to satisfy each of our senses, they are – sweet, sour, spicy, salty and sometimes bitter. The overall effect, is what makes Thai food unforgettably tasty. It tingles our entire tongue because we taste contrasting flavours in each mouthful.

Thai food is a popular cuisine which is cooked all across the world. There are various websites where you can look up recipes, from traditional dishes which you make from scratch, to ‘cheat’ recipes using ready bought sauces. Alternatively, if you are looking for somewhere to go on a birthday meal out or somewhere to get together with your party poker or chess club friends, then there are many excellent restaurants you can visit. Or, if you are a tourist, or new to the area, and are looking up nearby restaurants, and would rather eat out to experience traditional Thai cuisine, then the Pattaya Restaurant site offers reviews and images of the food, from various restaurants. This is very useful if you wish to see what type of food was served, how it tasted and the presentation of the dish, before you go there.

Green curry is probably the most popular Thai dish. It is made from pieces of chicken in a spicy green creamy, coconut sauce, served with sticky fragrant jasmine rice. Here we see some of the contrasting taste senses, all combined in the one dish. You have the sweet creamy coconut in the sauce and the jasmine rice, the bitter fish based sauce in the paste, the sour lime leaves and the spicy kick from the green chilli. The dish is normally served with rice or round rice noodles known as khanom chin. The staple side dish is sticky rice, but there are many variations on this, such as jasmine rice, which add a sweet and fragrant edge to the dish. Sometimes, sauces are poured over the rice making it a soup like texture, known as rat kaeng.