Northeastern Thai Food
Northeastern Thai food (E-sarn or Isaan if pronounce in Thai) is probably the second, if not most, favorite type of food for Thai people. You can find Northeastern Thai Food from street vendor carts to luxury restaurants. The characteristic of this food is its spicy and variety of herbs. The dishes usually come in a tiny plates and require 2-3 plates for one people to make him/herself full but this kind of food is rarely eat alone. So you can usually see 5-6 plates for 2 people in Northeastern Thai restaurants which make a variety of food for people to indulge themselves.
Most,
if not all, restaurants first serve fresh herbs for their customers
similar to Italian or French restaurants that serve bread as an
appetizer. These herbs, also like Italian and French, can order for more
without cost. The other dishes in the meal usually not necessary serve
in order and usually come when the dishes are ready. The example of food
are grilled meat, papaya salad (Som Tum), spicy soup (Tom Sab) and
spicy herbal salad (Larb). Like general Thai food that require rice to
eat with the food, Northeastern Thai food has sticky rice(Kao Neow) or
Thai vermicelli (Kanom Jeen) for its companion. People usually don’t
order dessert after the main dish so most restaurants even don’t have
the desserts in their menu.
Northeastern Thai food restaurants are usually crowded during the prime time (lunch , dinner). Office employees may prefer Thai one dish food as their primary meal due to its quickness but I can say that Northeastern Thai food also standing tall in the second place without doubt because of the cost and quickness of preparation. For dinner, when people are off their work, they usually hang out at Northeastern Thai food restaurants because of the atmosphere, price(especially beer or alcohol which quite cheap) and ubiquitous of these kind of joints.
Northeastern Thai food is represent various characteristic of Thai food. Full of herbs, various dishes in one meal, spicy yet delicious. The two latter characteristic may not suit foreigner but I suggest that if you have a chance to taste it you should try and you might falling in love with it like everybody in Thailand do.
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