Various Type of Food in Thailand (Part 2)

Various Type of Food in Thailand (Part 2)

Thai Salad

Thai salad is not differ from other nations. Only that they usually are applied with various kind of chillies in order to make it spicy. In Thai native language salad is called “Yum” follow by the word of meat, vegetables or ingredients such as “Yum Makiey Yow = Eggplant Salad” or “Yum Woon Sen = Vermicelli Salad”. Actually all kind of things that you can think of have been cooked as salad by Thai people. From an ordinary like egg salad to raw freshwater crab with fermented fish papaya salad for instance. Thai salad is like Western salad, Thai people usually eat them as an appetizer, the first dish of their meal. Nonetheless, Thai salad is a good companion for alcohol due to its spiciness and relative cheap price. Don’t look intimidate by the chili on their surface when you see one. Once you have tried them you will be fall in love with it. Like I and my favorite “Yum Makiey Yow”.

Thai Soup

I don’t know if we can compare Thai soup to other nations soup. As far as I know the only similarity between Thai soup and Western soup is that they both are liquid but other than that? It’s all different story. Thai soup, like Thai salad, usually contain chili that make them spicy. Actually there is only one kind of soup that not have spiciness in it that I can think of. Other than that one Thai soup is everything but not spicy. The famous dish that you might heard of is “Tom Yum Koong”. Tom Yum (along with only Tom) is the prefix of most spicy Thai soup and Koong mean shrimp. So “Tom Yum Koong” equal shrimp spicy soup. Other famous dish for Thai people are “Tom Zab” , “Tom Klong” and “Tom Kha Kai” for instance. Thai people usually eat soup for their main dish or after have all appetizers. Thai soup often come in big bowl that all members in the table can share, actually all kind of Thai dish are made to be share except One Dish in my part one article. Thai soup can be eaten in every meal from breakfast to dinner (or even supper) but for me I prefer to have it on dinner because this kind of dish is kinda heavy for me!

Thai Alcohol (Whiskey, Beer and etc.)

Thai people is addict to alcohol beverage like all other people (including me ^_^). For me my favorite kind of drink is beer. Local or import beer is fine with me. My most favorite local beer is, of course, Singha beer - Thai premium beer that selling worldwide and for my most favorite import beer is Hoegaarden (Belgian beer). Varity of beer in Thailand is kind of limit due to the one of the five prohibit rules of Buddhist religion, main religion in Thailand. However even this rule has been consistency remind by government or NGO to people, alcohol in Thailand is ubiquitous. Thailand also have some peculiar law that prohibit store from selling alcohol drink in specific time but allow people to buy at anytime if they both more than 10 litres (which I do most of the time if I encounter the situation). It’s kind of childish law don’t you think? Thai government also increase tax for alcohol drink to sky-high (400% for wine) to force people not to buy it. Compare with living cost to other nations that I have been there, alcohol drink in Thailand is relatively high indeed. You need to pay 50 baht for a bottle of Singha beer when you can buy ordinary food at only 30 baht. When I travel to Japan, the cheapest dish is ramen and it usually cost me 700-800 yen compare to Asahi beer that cost only 400-500 yen.

There is another one significant different drinking habit in Thailand. 99% of Thai people drink whiskey with the mixer(soft drink such as water, soda, etc.). Almost every drink in this way that restaurant or pub in Thailand are get lucrative from this habit. Normally those mixer sell for 10 baht in convenient store but in restaurant or pub the price jump up to an average of 60 baht per bottle. For one bottle of whiskey Thai people usually need to accompany with 10-15 mixers so the price that they need to pay in extra are almost twice the price of the whiskey itself. So if you come to Thailand you may got a cheap whiskey as you drink it on the rock right?

Actually there are more Thai style drinking that I can think of but let’s call it a day for now. Keep coming to my blog and you may found it somedays.  

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