Understanding the Thai Menu in the most appropriate manner

Well you must have been to several restaurants and eaten various types of foods from across the globe. But Thai food is different and unique and so is the menu of a Thai restaurant. As Thailand is precisely renowned world over for its fish and seafood dishes thereby not surprisingly, the most common and frequently used words on the Thai menu comprise of moo (pork), pet (duck), gai (chicken) and even kai (egg). Besides that beef and pork possess a particularly strong flavor.

Then most sought after seafood constitutes of cuisines like gung (prawn),pla (fish),plakapong (sea bass, a great favorite), hoi (shellfish), hoi kreng (cockles), aharn taley (seafood), and boo (crab). Then of course as far as the vegetable section is concerned you will come across ham (onion), (mushroom), tomatoes, chilli, pakad ham, makeyatet. In case you looking to avoid highly spicy food then you can always request that by saying, “mai sai prik” implying not to add chili.

Exclusively Authentic Thai Dishes

Thai dishes certainly utilize all the ingredients mentioned above besides adding a flurry of flavors, notably garlic, coriander root, black pepper, ginger, and chili. Apart from that you need to clearly distinguish between a Geng ped (curry) and geng ped gai (chicken curry) which are different along with geng pet kiau (green curry) and geng pet deng (red curry). Also it can be taken note that Geng mussaman is primarily a Malay-type curry which is pretty common in the extreme south of Thailand. Also Geng jert is soup whereas Geng jert nua is beef soup.

Also let’s take a look at the some of the most sought after Thai dishes the knowledge of which can be handy while ordering Thai food from a Thai menu.

•  Tom yam is actually a hot and a pretty spicy soup which is quite cherished in Thailand. Tom yam gung (spicy prawn soup) is an all time favorite form of it.

•  Kau pat (fried rice) is a well known one-dish meal which can simply be served with almost anything. Kau pat moo, a pork-fried rice is the best example.

•  Kwitiau is basically a form of a noodle soup of Chinese origin besides Meekrob which is crispy noodle is also worth a try.

•  Tawt man pia or tawt man kung actually represents fish or prawn cakes respectively. These are mainly quite superb and interesting, chewy dishes.

•  Yam as popularly known everywhere is a form of salad which a lot more spicier than its Western counterpart. It should rather be sampled only by the more intrepid visitor.

•  Kau niau or the sticky rice is a exclusivity from the northeast Thailand, where it is at times cooked in banana leaves.