Savour Excellent Delicacies During Your Thailand Holidays

By Author: Daisy Wilkinson
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Known as 'Siam' before 1932, Thailand is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world in recent times and is visited by tourists from different corners of the globe every year. It is the only country in Southeast Asia that managed to avoid a direct rule by any of the Western countries, although it faced some pressure from the United Kingdom and France in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, it has become a regional power in the Southeast Asian region and is known for its fascinating tourist attractions. During your time spent in this beautiful Asian country, you'll get to explore the popular ones among them and taste the most delicious Thai foods.

Among the most popular dishes you can try during your cheap holidays to Thailand is Tom Yum Goong. This spicy shrimp soup is prepared using fresh prawns and straw mushrooms mixed with an assortment of spices and herbs, such as lime leaves, lemongrass, shallots, chilli, fish sauce, galangal, and lime juice. You can enjoy this soup along with any meal. Som Tum is yet another Thai delicacy you can try while getting around in this part of the world. It is a spicy green papaya salad made with shredded raw papaya, green beans, cherry tomatoes, garlic, and chillies.

If you like soup-based dishes, you can try Tom Kha Kai during your Thailand holidays. It is prepared using tender strips of chicken in coconut milk along with some spices like chillies, crushed shallots, galangal, and stalks of lemongrass. While having rice during your meal, you can accompany it with a red curry called Gaeng Daeng. This curry is made with morsels of meat, smooth coconut milk, and red curry paste. After preparing the curry, it is topped with finely chopped lime leaves. Don't miss the Thai-style fried noodles called 'Pad Thai'. It has now achieved worldwide fame and you can choose small, thin, or wide noodles.

Khao Pad is the Thai-style fried rice, which you can find at almost any restaurant and food stall during your Thailand holidays. It is popularly eaten as lunch in the country and is served typically with slices of cucumber and lime. Among the ingredients used in this Thai variation of fried rice are eggs, onion, and a few herbs. The Thais also like to experiment with a wide range of ingredients and this is the reason why they use crab, prawns, chicken, or even leftover vegetables while preparing the fried rice. A delicious dish you can enjoy with rice is the Pad Krapow Moo Saap, which is prepared with pork and fried basil.

Green Chicken Curry is also worth savouring while holidaying in the country. The Thais use simple ingredients while preparing this dish, such as morsels of fresh chicken, tender bamboo shoots, eggplants, sweet basil, and coriander. However, what gives a green colour to this curry are spoonfuls of green curry paste stirred into coconut milk. You can enjoy your meal of Thai rice with this mouth-watering green curry.