The Taste Of Thai Food
By Pauline Go
Thai food offers a variety of flavors and taste. Almost all Thai food is made with the subtle mixture of herbs and spices. Thus, Thai food is widely known for being hot and spicy.
A basic Thai meal includes the following: the staple is rice which is accompanied by a number of dishes. There will be a soup, a curry, a steamed or fried dish, a salad and one or more basic sauces. While breakfast includes fresh fruits and a variety of traditional sweets.
Thai food differs from region to region. In the central region people prefer mostly steamed food, which includes fresh water fish and fresh vegetables. Thai food like noodles is extremely popular in Bangkok and one can see tourists enjoying their fare at road side eateries. In the northern region people prefer milder food when compared with other regions of Thailand. The influence of neighboring Burma is more in case of food habits in northern Thailand. Most dishes are prepare using tamarind, turmeric and ginger.
In the southern region coconut plays a predominant role. Coconut is used in almost all the dishes. The southern people use coconut in various ways. They use coconut
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milk, oil and meat. The coconut milk is used to temper the heat of chili laced soups and it is also used in curries. The coconut oil is used for frying and they use the meat of coconut for garnishing and decorating food items and this gives an added taste to the food.
In ancient days, Thais used to eat the food with their bare hands but now due modernization and influences of western countries, people use forks and spoon to eat rice and chopsticks are used to eat noodles.
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PostNuke and PostNukeThai coverage in Bangkok Post
I think most of us probably notice this already that recently (May 8, 2002) PostNuke and PostNukeThai websites have been covered by a Bangkok Post 's (Wednesday) Database section as a comprehensive news coverage. So here I would like to point out to the web article (shorten version) in case someone have not read its paper version. Thai developer makes open source push
Anothern thing that you will miss from the "tree-version" is the handsome picture of the wesmaster. ;-)
I expect the popularity of PN will increase among the Thai popolation, based on the increased article counters at PostNukeThai which we all can see