Thailand is home to an incredible wealth of street food. Some vendors have spent a lifetime honing generations-old recipes to perfection. I will explain to you an authentic experience in Thai food. Our dishes are direct family recipes straight from the streets of Thailand.
Thai food Culture is one of the most internationally renowned cuisines, and is often considered a global favorite. Having spent some time in Thailand, I’ve noticed that they have a very strong food culture, which I feel is very special and unique to Thailand.
I noticed many things myself, but it wasn’t until I had that private cooking course in Chiang Mai that I got a true understanding of the Thai peoples food culture, and started to appreciate the little details they pay much attention.
In fact, I rarely saw a Thai person eating alone. Usually they eat in groups, either with family or friends. The Thai people are a very social people in general, and eating is something they like to do together.
Even at the restaurants and shops, all the staff sat down together at lunch time, with a big meal for everyone to share.
They eat whatever meal they want. They can eat fried rice for breakfast, noodles for lunch and soup for dinner, or the opposite way around.
They never eat cornflakes and yoghurt as a meal. My cooking teacher GayRay told me that they see western meals such as cornflakes, toast and even pizza as just a snack.
What I love about the Thailand food culture is that they always balance their meals with the five fundamental taste senses.
In the West, we usually choose one or two per meal, either salty and spicy, or just sweet. In Thai food they combine all five senses; salty, spicy, sour, sweet and bitter – into one and the same meal.
This makes the food so interesting for your taste buds!
Unless you’re eating a western style steak, you will be served with a fork and spoon. Thai people eat with their spoon in the right hand, and the fork in the left.
They often have chop stick available, which is something influenced from China, but most Thai people can’t actually eat with chop sticks.
This is what they told me, and I haven’t seen any Thai people using chopsticks yet.
Thai people love to snack, and often do so when they’re on their way somewhere. Sweets and desserts are usually not eaten on meal times, but as snack. When you’re invited to a Thai person’s house you’re always greeted with a welcome snack, which for the record was the best snack I’ve ever had.
They put a plate on the table with roasted peanuts, coconut (sweet), ginger (bitter), lime (sour), shallots, and chili (spicy), which you fold into a betel leaf, drizzle some palm sugar and eat together with your host (shove it all in at once). It’s a feast as well as a shock for your taste buds, but I couldn’t get enough of it!
Thai people always finish the food on the plate. They believe that wasting rice brings bad luck. When I think about it, all the healthy rules I’ve learned about food, what you should eat and how you should eat, the Thai people follow.
They don’t eat dessert after meals, they makes sure to get all the five food senses and they don’t eat bread and cornflakes for breakfast but proper meals …
One Night in Bangkok ~ Our feet are blistered, our legs are giving in, our minds are buzzing. Bangkok got the best of us, but we also got the best of Bangkok. Bangkok really has everything for everybody – it is huge, chaotic, but also in a weird way quite charming – after spending 10 days there last month we decided to share below a few of our favorite things to do in Bangkok, “The City Of Angles”.
We had a lot of creatures living in and around our bungalow in Koh Lanta: The two frogs in the bathroom and this lizard were the most frequent guests…
Bangkok can get horribly hot, and with 11 million people the streets are often jammed with cars and mopeds. If you want to get away from the bustling street, or just want to find a quicker and more enjoyable way of getting around the city, head to the canals – this is also where you can also find many great Riverside Hotels. Taking a boat down the Chao Phraya river is one of the most popular things to do in Bangkok, the waterways are also often the best way to get around the city, plus it’s really cheap.
We really enjoyed the boat ride to Siam Square from Golden Mount, and the orange boat line on the Chao Phraya river.
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