| There are no less than 200-300 Thai dishes. Each has | | | | could peel onions, garlics, pluck off vegetables, |
| its own characteristics in flavor and feature. | | | | squeeze coconut meat, and pound chillies and spices, |
| It is not difficult to cook in the pre-historic era. Humans | | | | for example. |
| began their eating with raw trees: flowers, leaves, | | | | Accordingly, it is clearly seen that food cooking |
| roots and bulbs. After having tasted the | | | | creates closeness among family members in talking |
| vagetables'bland flavor, they added some sour ones to | | | | and chatting to one another. Young kids knew how to |
| make tastier, or mixed variety of vegetables. Later, | | | | help, and to cook as well as to be trained to have |
| they knew how to make simple cooking, for example, | | | | responsibility and discipline in working. The whole family, |
| burning vegetables or putting rice into roasted bamboo | | | | then, has a warm relationship and in turn produces |
| (which was called "kaawlaam" or a glutinous rice with | | | | worthy people for society in general. |
| coconut cream topping stuffed in a bamboo section | | | | Names: |
| and roasted). As the time passed by, they knew how | | | | Thai food always has its meaningful names which |
| to cook in various ways: frying, making soup or curry, | | | | indicate its features or methods of cooking. Khanom |
| steaming, making yam (salad) and preserving. | | | | Pui Fai is light, soft and yellowish white like cotton wool. |
| Food cooking is both science and art. Some foods | | | | Mi Krop (Crispy noodles) must be crispy. In the old |
| need time, man power and delicacy in cooking, including | | | | days, most Thai people usually had a sense of humour |
| an artistic decoration. Cooperation in cooking helps | | | | and they often named foods, poetically, to stimulate |
| create unity and warmth among family members. | | | | the appetite. Among those foods are Jorka Lonson |
| The process of Thai cuisine explains Thai life: its | | | | (Black bean in coconut milk), Naree Jaamseen (Banana |
| tradition, custom and culture as well as confirms that | | | | in coconut milk) Ho Mujcha Chailai (Steamed curried |
| Thai family is a big one in which its members live | | | | fish), Paad Paakdong Fong Raga (Pickled vegetable |
| together with warm relationship. In cooking Thai food, | | | | fried with egg) |
| family members have their share of helping, as a | | | | The Flavor of Thai food: |
| teamwork. Either the grown ups or the young ones, | | | | Regional Dishes : |
| males or females, can participate. In some old families, | | | | The North: The food of the North has its light flavor, |
| the elders knew how to manage the young off springs | | | | with a little spices, not very hot with chillies, not salty |
| giving their hands in cooking. Small kids could help with | | | | and without sugar, except in Phak Jo, Kaeng Kae, |
| light works, e.g., nipping off miniature egg plants, or | | | | Kaeng Oom Moo, Sai Uaa, etc. |
| sweet basils from the stem; whereas the bigger ones | | | | |