Food & Drink
Thai Dishes
Traditional dishes from Thai cuisine.
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Thai name↕ | Thai script↕ | English name↕ | Image↕ | Region↕ | Description↕ |
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| Khao yam | ข้าวยำ | South | A type of Thai rice salad. Here it is shown unmixed, as served at a southern Thai eatery in Korat. This particular version used pomelo, bean sprouts, lime leaves, and toasted coconut flakes, and dried shrimp flakes with the rice. | ||
| Koi pla | ก้อยปลา | Northeast | Minced or finely chopped raw fish in spicy salad dressing. It is a popular raw fish dish in Isan and a common source of infection with Opisthorchis viverrini (Southeast Asian liver fluke). | ||
| Kung chae nampla | กุ้งแช่น้ำปลา | A Thai salad made from fresh raw shrimp soaked in Thai fish sauce and served with sliced bitter gourd, mint, and a spicy sauce made with raw garlic, chillies, lime juice, sugar, and fresh cilantro/coriander. | |||
| Kung ten | กุ้งเต้น | Dancing shrimp | Northeast | A yam-style salad made with raw, and often still alive and "dancing", freshwater shrimp. Shrimp of the species Macrobrachium lanchesteri are often used. | |
| Lap Isan | ลาบอีสาน | Larb | Northeast | Northeastern style lap is a spicy and sour salad of minced raw or cooked meat (mainly pork, chicken or duck), shallots or onions, lime juice, fish sauce, chillies, ground roasted rice and mint. | |
| Lap nuea | ลาบเหนือ | North | Northern Thai lap is completely different from lap from northeastern Thailand. Northern Thai lap is made by mixing raw or cooked minced meat (mainly pork, beef, chicken or fish) with an elaborate mix of dry spices and herbs. The northern Thai lap does not contain lime juice or fish sauce. The version in the image is lap khua, meaning that the meat has been fried. | ||
| Lap nuea dip | ลาบเนื้อดิบ | North | A northern Thai lap-style salad of sliced raw beef (the version in the image also shows slices of raw beef tripe) and ground, dried spices. | ||
| Mu nam tok | หมูน้ำตก | Northeast | A very spicy salad made with pork (mu) and somewhat identical to lap, except that the meat is cut into thin strips rather than minced. | ||
| Naem khluk | แหนมคลุก | Naem sausage (pork fermented with sticky rice) is mixed with boiled rice and then deep-fried. The salad is made by crumbling the deep-fried balls and mixing in sliced shallots, dried chillies, fish sauce and lime juice. It is served with raw vegetables and herbs. | |||
| Nuea yang nam tok | เนื้อย่างน้ำตก | Northeast | With a similar "dressing" as larb, this dish is made with sliced grilled beef. "Nam tok" means "waterfall" in Thai and it is thought that the meat juices should run out from the meat like a waterfall. | ||
| Phla kung | พล่ากุ้ง | A spicy salad of prawns, sliced lemongrass, culantro or other herbs, and shallots, with a dressing of lime juice, sweet chilli paste (Nam phrik phao – optional), fish sauce, pounded garlic and bird's eye chili. The version shown in the image also contained minced pork. | |||
| Phla mu | พล่าหมู | A spicy salad of sliced grilled pork, sliced lemongrass, mint, culantro (optional) and shallots, with a dressing of lime juice, sweet chili paste (Nam phrik phao – optional), fish sauce, pounded garlic and bird's eye chili. | |||
| Phla nuea makhuea on | พล่าเนื้อมะเขืออ่อน | A Thai salad made with medium rare beef and Thai aubergines. The sliced, raw eggplants are mixed in with the warm beef to soften them (makhuea on means "soft aubergine"). This particular version of the salad was served with a nam tok-style dressing. | |||
| Sa nuea | ส้าเนื้อ | North | A northern Thai speciality, made with blanched medium rare, thinly sliced beef. Other ingredients for this dish are the elaborate phrik lap Lanna spices-and-chilli mix, onions, some broth, and fresh herbs. | ||
| Sa nuea sadung | ส้าเนื้อสะดุ้ง | North | A northern Thai speciality, made with sauteed medium rare, thinly sliced beef. Other ingredients for this dish are the elaborate phrik lap Lanna spices-and-chili mix, onions, some broth, and fresh herbs such as kraphao (holy basil) or phak phai (Vietnamese coriander) although this particular version was made using saranae (spearmint). This particular version also contained nam phia, the partially digested contents from the first of the four stomachs of cattle, for added flavour. | ||
| Som tam khai khem | ส้มตำไข่เค็ม | A variation of the standard papaya som tam with salted eggs. | |||
| Som tam pu | ส้มตำปู | Green papaya salad with brined rice paddy crabs. | |||
| Som tam | ส้มตำ | Green Papaya salad | Central | Som tam which contains peanuts, is the Central Thai dish that became famous internationally | |
| Tam khanun | ตำขนุน | North | A spicy Northern Thai salad made with boiled green whole jackfruit which has been mashed with a mortar and pestle, and minced pork. It is normally eaten with sticky rice and (as seen on the image) with khaep mu (pork cracklings). | ||
| Tam maak hoong | ตำหมากหุ่ง | Northeast | This version is more spicy, salty, and less sweet of som tam that contains pla ra (a sauce of fermented fish), and very often also brined rice paddy crabs, and makok (the fruit of the Spondias mombin) besides the usual ingredients for som tam. It does not however contain peanuts. | ||
| Tam makhuea | ตำมะเขือ | North | Chopped and then pounded grilled long green eggplant (makhuea yao; Thai: มะเขือยาว), grilled green chili peppers, raw garlic and salt put in a banana leaf package mixed together with hard-boiled egg. It's a speciality of Northern Thailand where it is traditionally eaten with sticky rice. | ||
| Tam mamuang | ตำมะม่วง | A som tam style salad with tangy unripe mango "au Julienne" as its main ingredient. The version in the image contains pla haeng thot, deep-fried sun-dried anchovies. | |||
| Tam maphrao on sen mi krop | ตำมะพร้าวอ่อนเส้นหมี่กรอบ | A som tam style salad made with the meat of a young coconut and served with crispy deep-fried thin Chinese rice noodles. | |||
| Tam mu yo | ตำหมูยอ | A spicy Thai salad made with mu yo, a Thai pork sausage which is often also described in Thailand as "Vietnamese sausage". The dressing is somewhat similar to that of som tam. | |||
| Tam phonlamai ruam | ตำผลไม้รวม | The fruits used in this particular salad show the fusion aspect of Thai cuisine, as it incorporates "modern" (for Thais) fruit such as apples and grapes besides traditional fruit such as pineapple and guava. The dressing is made with pounded garlic, sugar, chili peppers, dried shrimp, lime juice and fish sauce, and is similar to that of som tam. | |||
| Tam som-o nam pu | ตำส้มโอน้ำปู | North | It is a spicy pomelo salad which uses crab extract as a flavouring. This black sauce is achieved by pounding pu na ("ricefield crabs", Somanniathelphusa) to a pulp, straining the juices which are then boiled and reduced until the sauce becomes as thick as molasses. | ||
| Yam bai cha | ยำใบชา | A spicy Thai salad made with young, fresh tea leaves. | |||
| Yam hu mu | ยำหูหมู | It is a salad made with thinly sliced, boiled pig's ears, the version in the image also contained fresh mint, lime juice, shallots, lemon grass, fish sauce and sugar. | |||
| Yam hua pli thot | ยำหัวปลีทอด | A spicy Thai yam-style salad with deep-fried slices of banana blossom as its main ingredient. | |||
| Yam hoi khraeng | ยำหอยแครง | A spicy Thai salad made with blood cockles. | |||
| Yam khai dao | ยำไข่ดาว | A spicy Thai salad made with fried egg (khai dao). | |||
| Yam khamin khao kung | ยำขมิ้นขาวกุ้ง | A spicy Thai salad made with finely sliced (au Julienne) "white curcuma" (probably Curcuma zedoaria), shredded coconut, cooked prawns, sliced shallots, dried chillies, fresh green bird's eye chili peppers, roasted cashew nuts, and crispy fried onion rings. | |||
| Yam kun chiang | ยำกุนเชียง | A Thai salad made with a sweet dried pork sausage called kun chiang. This sausage is of Chinese origin. This dish is often eaten with plain rice congee (khao tom kui; Thai: ข้าวต้มกุ๊ย). | |||
| Yam mu krop | ยำหมูกรอบ | A Thai salad made with crispy belly pork (mu krop). | |||
| Yam mu yo | ยำหมูยอ | A spicy yam-style Thai salad with mu yo (Vietnamese sausage). | |||
| Yam mu yo thot khai dao | ยำหมูยอทอดไข่ดาว | A spicy Thai salad made with crispy fried mu yo (Vietnamese sausage) and khai dao (fried egg). | |||
| Yam naem sot | ยำแหนมสด | A Thai salad containing sausage made from fermented raw pork and sticky rice (naem sausage). | |||
| Yam naem khao khot | ยำแหนมข้าวทอด | Thai croquette salad | A Thai salad made of crumbled, crispy-fried curried rice balls (similar to a spherical croquette), fermented pork sausage, shallots, green chili peppers or dried chili flakes, peanuts, lime juice, fish sauce, and onion. | ||
| Yam no mai | ยำหน่อไม้ | North | A Northern Thai salad made with strips of boiled bamboo shoots, shallots, herbs, fish sauce, lime juice, and chili peppers. | ||
| Yam no mai sai nam pu | ยำหน่อไม้ใส่น้ำปู | North | A northern Thai salad made with boiled bamboo shoots and a thick paste made from the rice paddy crabs. | ||
| Yam nuea yang | ยำเนื้อย่าง | Thai grilled beef salad | A spicy salad of grilled beef, shallots, and Thai celery or spearmint. | ||
| Yam phak khut | ยำผักกูด | A salad of edible fern shoots (Diplazium esculentum) and pork. | |||
| Yam pla duk fu | ยำปลาดุกฟู | "Exploded" catfish salad | Crispy fried shredded pla duk (catfish) served with a spicy and tangy green mango salad. | ||
| Yam pla khem | ยำปลาเค็ม | A Thai salad (yam) made with fried sun-dried salted fish (pla khem). | |||
| Yam pla salit | ยำปลาสลิด | A Thai salad made with deep-fried, sun-dried snakeskin gourami.. | |||
| Yam pla thu | ยำปลาทู | Made with short mackerel (pla thu). | |||
| Yam sanat | ยำสะนัด | North | A northern Thai salad of roughly chopped, blanched vegetables that are then refried with a chili paste. It is served here together with northern Thai pork cracklings and deep-fried, sun-dried chili peppers. | ||
| Yam som-o | ยำส้มโอ | A salad made with pomelo. The other ingredients are: sliced red bird's eye chili peppers, deep-fried sun-dried anchovies, roasted peanuts, fish sauce and tamarind juice. | |||
| Yam takhrai kung sot | ยำตะไคร้กุ้งสด | A spicy "yam-style" salad with finely sliced raw lemongrass and prawns. | |||
| Yam thale | ยำทะเล | A spicy salad with mixed seafood (cuttlefish, shelled prawns, mussels), shallots, lime juice, fish sauce and Thai celery. | |||
| Yam thua phu | ยำถั่วพู | A Thai salad with winged beans, salted eggs, toasted coconut, shallots, fish sauce, lime juice and chillies. The version in this image also contains squid. | |||
| Yam wun sen | ยำวุ้นเส้น | Thai glass noodle salad | A spicy salad with glass noodles (cellophane noodles), minced chicken or pork and often either mixed seafood, squid or prawns. Cloud ear fungus also often features in this dish. |
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