Thailand is a beautiful country full of beautiful people and beautiful food
When there are sufficient recipes on here from that region, I'll break them down into a larger number of countries but for now it represents that sub-region of South East Asia along and around the Mekong. Countries are man-made constructs anyway and borders are meaningless in food terms, but there are slight differences which I'll get to in future
What do you mean you don't speak Thai? You eat Green Curry don't you?
You can buy perfectly reasonable thai green curry paste and the shop-bought stuff includes kaffir lime leaves which makes life easier, But Thai food is all about freshness; bright, fresh flavours - herbs, chillis lemongrass. You should try it
No. No I don’t know why it’s called that, and I don’t care – google it if you care.
but whether or not you ever find out why it’s called that, just make it: It’s astonishingly tasty Thai Surf’n’Turf!
It ain’t Banana Fritters!
I went for a Thai meal with vegetarians once. It was nice enough. Then the waiter asked about deserts: “Apple fritters please”; “Bananas in Coconut Milk for me”, “Ooh, me too. Bananas in Coconut Milk”. It got to me : “Lamb Masaman Curry, Please”.
65 million Buddhists can't be wrong
Do this with prawns, beef, vegetables, whatever you can find, you can't go wrong with this absolutely beautiful thing
Yum Yum! This is a beautiful thing
This is a very beautiful hot and sour soup from Thailand. You can just about make it vegetarian, but the fish sauce is important in my view.
Can curry paste be religious?
This is translated as “Muslim” curry paste. It may have been brought in by Persian traders. "Mussulman" is arguably another word for Muslim. It’s interesting – either way it feels like it comes from well to the West of Thailand.