Thai Culinary Art
The growing popularity of Thai cuisine is attested by the extraordinary number
of Thai restaurants in nearly all the major capitals of the world. Thus
 many visitors amve with some experience of its highly distinctive blend
of hot, sour, and sweet flavors and eager to sample the real thing in its
place of origin. Influenced by the cooking of China,
The vegetables are always fresh andIndia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and even
far-off usually quickly stir-fried in Chinese-style frying Portugal,
Thai food has nonetheless evolved pans. In many parts of the country coconut
into something quite unique, with its own culi- cream is
used as a base for curries„whose nary imperatives.
A large bowl of rice forms the numerous ingredients include lemon grass,
centrepiece of most Thai meals, and this is eaten shrimp
paste, fish sauce, and a selection of the with one
or two curries, some fish, a soup, and dozen or so chilli peppers that
grow in the a salad (yam), all eaten in whatever order
the country, ranging from mild to fiery hot.
Every region of the country has its own serts
usually include fresh fruit in season and specialties. In the Northeast,
for example, a faverite is glutinous rice accompanied by barbecured chicken
and chicken and som tarn, a hot salad that
combines shredded greenpapaya, dried shrimps, lemon juice,
fish sauce, garlic, and a liberal dash of chopped chillies. Northerners
are partial to a local sausage called naem, which comes in
a variety of forms. The food of the far south is influenced by the Muslim
style cooking of Malaysia, as well as all kinds of fresh seafood. Popular
in most parts of the kingdom are tom yam kung (sour prawn
soup), mi Are (crisply fried noodles with bits of
shrimp, pork, eggs, and sweet and sour sauce), geng phet kai
(chicken curry),kaitomkha (chicken soup with lemon grass and coconut
mild), and yam nua (spicy beef salad).
In Bangkok, there are a number of cooking schools for
visitors who would like to leam how to prepare certain basic Thai dishes
properly.
Cooking schools:
1. UFM Food Centre Co., Ltd,
593/29-39 Sukhumvit 33/1, Bangkok 10110,
Tel: (02) 2596620-30
2. The Thai Cooking School at The Oriental
48 Oriental Avenue, Bangkok 10500,
Tel: (02) 4376211, 4373080
3. Modern Housewife Centre
45/6-7 Sethsiri Rd. Bangkok 10400
Tel: (02) 2792831, 2792834
4. Boathouse Inn Cooking School
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