Delicious Thai Food! Eight Authentic Thai Dishes Must Not Be Missed

Mango glutinous rice is the most popular dessert in Thailand. Steamed glutinous rice flavored with coconut milk is well matched with fresh mango, and the flavor of the sweet mango coconut milk and soft glutinous rice linger in your mouth.

As a traditional Thai dessert, it can be found in restaurants or snack streets of night markets, and some exquisite shops also make it into five-color glutinous rice balls with mango coconut shreds and with egg flower, whose flavor is difficult to resist.

Mango glutinous rice is big in size, and if someone cannot manage it alone, they should try the DQ snowstorm with mango glutinous rice flavor which is cheap and authentic in taste.

Pad Thai, a fried noodle dish, is the most popular snack at Bangkok street stalls. The authentic Pad Thai noodle has fine flour and enough material. Large shrimp meat inside. Soy sauce and other condiments can be added, if you wish. The authentic Pad Thai should taste salty, sweet, sour and spicy at the same time. If you like, you can strengthen one of the flavors. Tourists without seats often stand to sample the delicacy.

Pad Thai is a popular snack throughout Thailand, about 30 Baht (around 0.85 USD) a bowl at Bangkok's major night markets. Usually, the shopkeeper will prepare noodles with different shapes and widths for you to choose from, then fry the noodles in a frying pan, add shrimp sauce, vegetables and various Thai spices and seasonings, which will soon be ready.

In Thailand, you must sample famous fruit Shake. Fruit Shake is squeezed from fresh fruit with ice cubes and syrup, and can be turned into a Smoothie with milk according to your personal taste, which is cool and healthy.

Thailand has a wide variety of fruits, as well as fruit Shake flavors. Mango Shake is a 100% safe choice of drink for everyone, and if you like to try something really fresh, do not miss the passion fruit or dragon fruit. A cup of fruit Shake costs only 30-50 Baht (about 6-10 Yuan).

Tom Yum Goong is a famous Thai soup. In Thai, "Tom Yum" refers to the hot and sour taste, "Goong" means shrimp, and together it makes hot and sour shrimp soup. Tom Yum Goong soup has a complex taste of four flavors mixed together: sour, spicy, sweet and bitter. It is a good accompaniment to Thai rice. Generally speaking, Tom Yum Goong soup in southern Thailand (Bangkok and Phuket) tends to be sweet, while in northern Thailand (Chiang Mai and Chiang Lai), it tends to be spicy.

Tom Yum Goong Soup's ingredients are simple, the main ingredients are wasp orange leaves, citronella, pepper and shrimp. The sour taste of the four flavors is from wasp orange, hot flavor from capsicum frutescens, sweet flavor from coconut milk and bitter flavor from little bitter seeds.

Green papaya salad originated from northern Thailand, with cowpeas, Thai peppers and peanuts is hot, sour and crisp, and its color is also very bright, which looks like very appetizing. It is the most popular appetizer for Thai people.

Green papaya salad is also traditionally served with pickled crabs and strips of eggplant. Thepickled crabs have a fishy smell of seafood that most newcomers find hard to accept, so appropriate addition is recommended.

The authentic green papaya salad is spicy because it is mashed with lots of little chili peppers. If you find spicy food too much for your taste, it is advisable to indicate mild or no spiciness when ordering food.

Green curry is a unique curry in Thailand. In traditional curry, coconut milk, cilantro, lime andother spices are added to enhance the fragrance and weaken the spiciness, which is perfect with chicken meat and seafood.

Although green curry is said to be the hottest of Thai curries, it is cooked with a moderate spicy flavor, just right against the fragrance of spices. It is very fragrant and spicy, but very fresh, too. It is a little fresh with a strong taste. If you don't like spicy food, ask the store for more coconut milk.

Thailand's seafood is cheap, fresh and tasty, and almost all restaurants serve seafood dishes. If you're not used to hot and sour Thai seafood or a simple seafood barbecue, there are also a number of Chinese seafood restaurants serving authentic steamed groupers and lobster dishes.

Crabs in Thailand, fried mostly, can be cooked with curry, also with black pepper. As long as the crab is fresh, it is delicious. It is suggested to eat mantis shrimps in Phuket, probably because it is a producing area, so the shrimp is very big and tastes good. It is better to eat big-head shrimps than Australian lobsters. Thailand does not produce Australian lobsters. Although they are also quite fresh, the price is expensive.

The most famous place to eat seafood in Bangkok is Chinatown. Every evening, Chinatown turns into a seafood street. The TK seafood at the entrance is famous for its charred seafood booths, fresh food, authentic cooking, grilled prawns and sour bass.

Coconut ice cream made from freshly harvested coconuts is a natural dessert unique in Thailand. It can be found at roadside booths everywhere, selling for an average of about 20-30 Baht (about 0.60-0.85 USD).

Pedlar would shave off coconut meat in half a coconut and add coconut-flavored ice cream. Store owner will also present the fresh coconut milk as gift to customers. The sweet coconutmilk is a perfect match with rich ice cream. Rich flavored ice cream sprinkled with peanuts and other nuts, have a bite when walking on the hot and humid Thai street, a really chill style.