Thai cuisine, as well as Thai architecture, is deeply eclectic. It combines the spicy fire of Indian spices, the delicacy of the dishes of the French royal court and the invariable quality of Chinese concoction. But if architecture is called frozen music, then Thai dishes are music that took the form of food.
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History
The formation of the foundations of the art of Thai cooking took place over several centuries of the existence of the Siamese state . Due to the significant influence India in the Indochina region much in Thai cuisine was borrowed from there, from India . The difference was only that when cooking Indian dishes it was customary to use ghee, milk and spices, and in Thai cooking these ingredients were replaced by coconut oil, coconut milk and grasses . For example, such as lemon grass, calgans and basil .
It is worth noting that one of the most important components of Thai cuisine - chili - was brought to Thailand by Portuguese missionaries only in the seventeenth century . chili peppers in Siam at different times were brought parsley, potatoes, sweet pepper, carrots and even tomatoes . But the way of cooking for steams was borrowed by Siamese chefs from China . And not only he . Walking in the streets of any more or less large settlement of Thailand, you are with find somewhere near the roadside a mobile fast food station . Or, speaking in simple Russian, a cookie . Very often the chefs of such stations use a convex frying pan to cook food, ensuring fast heating of the food . So, this the frying pan also has Chinese roots .
Directions of Thai cuisine
Traditionally, the nuances of Thai cuisine vary depending on their regional affiliation . In Thailand usually distinguish four culinary directions: northern, central, eastern and southern . Northern style is characterized by dishes from fresh river fish, pork or chicken meat . Thai pork sausages and soy noodles are especially popular among northerners soup from coconut milk . The cuisine of eastern Thailand was significantly influenced by the proximity of Laos: it is considered, for example, that a visiting card of Thai oriental cuisine - a sharp salad made of papaya called "catfish there" - is a national Lao dish . A very similar salad make and in Cambodia, but there it is called otherwise. . The culinary traditions of central Thailand are generally quite diverse, and the cuisine of southern lands is distinguished by a mixture of Thai, Chinese and Malaysian culinary heritage .
The indisputable advantage of Thai cuisine is the bilie in it dishes from seafood: shellfish, fish, crabs and lobsters. Do not forget that Thailand is in a natural and climatic zone, where the freshest fruits are available in year-round mode. Therefore, all sorts of desserts, fruit salads, bananas in the dough and yellow mango ice cream will always find a way to conquer your stomach first, and then the heart.
The variety of fresh herbs used as ingredients in the preparation of dishes makes Thai cuisine not only terrificly tasty, but also useful. For example, the soup of the Yam kung has a beneficial effect on the metabolism in the body and normalizes the work of the intestine. In addition, there is an opinion that tom kung is able to prevent the development of cancer.
Many people think that the main dish on the Thai table is rice . This will be true only if the king of dishes on our table with us unanimously recognize a loaf of bread . Objectively speaking, in an amazing world of Thai cooking, the main thing is any dish : whether it's a beef salad with lime and coriander dressing, where juicy bits of beef hide their delicate beauty under the leaves of mint, or the most delicious egg noodles with oyster sauce and crunchy vegetables that always get into your mouth . Any, absolutely any tais a dish placed on the table to be eaten will be the main one . And this is all because the dishes of Thai cuisine, in addition to being delicious and useful, are also unthinkably beautiful .
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We cook ourselves
By the way, in most hotels now it is realistic to pass a one-day course that will teach you the main secrets of Thai cooking: how to choose products on the market, which person to bargain with the crab seller and how much pepper should be added to a dish of lamb slices in mint sauce . It is inexpensive, When you return home, you will surprise your friends and acquaintances with a self-cooked cooking story called "Guy Pat Meth Mamuang" (roast chicken with cashew nuts) . So that your friends, after trying it, told you that the art of Thai culinary i came to Thailand not from any not from China . "The art of cooking Thai dishes was most likely given to us by the merciful and all-seeing culinary gods" - that's what your friends will say to you .
Gave, probably, so that our sorrowful life could bring us sometimes some kind of joy.