Can you believe this most of the backpackers more familiar Thai Food than Thailand? Do you know Som Tum, Tom Yum Goong or Pad Thai? Yes! you just did the answer. I’d love to introduce the most 3 famous of Thai food to you, let start with Som Tum.

  

     Som Tum, has mix taste of salty, sour, a little sweet and spicy, consisting of grated papaya and carrots (now a day become popular to put the carrots) mixed well with the seasonings of lime juice, palm sugar and fish sauce, heated by hot spicy chilies and garlic, scented by fried ground nut combined with dried shrimp, tomato, spring beans then served with various kinds of fresh vegetables such as morning glory and cabbage.
     Many Thai women love Som Tum, they think it haven’t any fat and you can get vitamins and the fibre from vegetables.

 

 

 

 

      Tom Yum Goong, it’s a spicy shrimp soup or you might know in Hot and Sour Shrimp Soup or Lemongrass and Shrimp Soup. 
     The basic ingredients are all the same. Shrimp, straw mushrooms, lightly crushed hot red chilis, sliced galangal, lemongrass stems, torn kaffir lime leaves, coriander, and seasoned with fish sauce, sugar and some lime juice. Use chicken stock to make up the soup.

 

 

  

 

     Pad Thai, otherwise known as Thai fried noodles. Pad Thai is one of the most popular dishes in Thai cuisine, especially in the States. Whenever I eat at Thai restaurant, I always see people order it. Pad Thai is a dish of stir fried rice noodles with dried shrimp, fried tofu, shallot, salted radish, chive, bean sprout, peanut, chili, lime, fish sauce, palm sugar, ketchup, tamarind juice and fresh prawn. If you are allergic to seafood, chicken or pork can be substitute.

 

 

 

 

 

    Anyway in Thailand you can eat all-day and all-night, really 24 hrs. a day! and you’ll find many type of restaurants the street vendors or small street-side restaurants (you’ll extremely full with tight budget!), food center (in the halls), fast food (McDonald, KFC, Pizza etc. just in case you’re home sick) and 5 stars restaurant, I think this may easier to understand for example a “gra-pow gai rard khao” (chicken with chilly and basel leaves on rice) at 25 baht on the street or 100 - 200 baht in a flash restaurant the taste not too different but the dressing on the paste must differ. 

 

 

     The secret is you can find all these Thai food everywhere and also very easily, if you want to eat cheaply, the street vendors in Thailand serve tasty food at bargain prices. Why don’t you taste one in Thailand by yourself? Com’on!