Central Thai cuisine

Regions of Thailand

It divides the country into 4 regions:

• Northern
• Northeastern
• Central
• Southern

Thai food
in

Central Region

• The Central region comprises 22
provinces.

• It covers a land area of 91,795
square kilometers or 17.89% of
the total land area of the
country.

Bangkok is in the Chao Phraya River delta in Thailand's
central plains.

Bangkok became the capital cities in Rattanakosin
period in 1782.
(235 years ago)





• The central region of Thailand is
a basin with many canals and
rivers passing through it.

• It receives adequate rainfall and
its soil benefits from the yearly
flood.





• Grains and vegetables are
easily grown
and aquatic animals are
readily found.

Food eaten by people in the
central part mainly
consists of shrimp, crab, fish
and vegetables.

• It is known as

"Thailand's Rice Bowl". One of the world's
most fertile rice and fruit growing areas, this
is the economic and cultural heartland of the
Thai nation.

Tasty of Central Thai foods

The Thai people in the central plain prefer food with smooth and lasting taste with a touch of
sweetness. The way the food is served is an art in itself. The dinning table is often decorated with carved
vegetable and fruit. Food is not too hot, salty, sweet and sour.

• Thai food is known for its balance of three to
four fundamental taste senses in each dish
or the overall meal: sour, sweet, salty, and
bitter.

Chinese’s influence in Thai Cuisine Deep-frying
frying
Chinese influences to Thai
Cuisine by the introduction
of frying,
stir frying and deep-frying.

stir frying

Portuguese’s influence in Thai Cuisine

• Portuguese took new products coming from the Americas and market
them in Thailand, for examples tomatoes, potatoes, chilies, papaya,
pineapples, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, cashews, peanuts, and tobacco.

Indian influence’s in Thai Cuisine

• Thai cuisine is influenced by Indian spices and flavors,
• which is evident in its famous green, red, and yellow curries but Thai curry incorporates many Indian spices in its pastes,
it still manages to maintain its own unique flavor with the addition of local spices and ingredients, such as Thai holy basil, lemongrass,
and galangal.

Thai food is healthy because it contains Thai cuisine uses a variety of sauces, such as fish sauce, soy sauce.
fresh vegetables, herbs, and relatively
small portions of bite-sized meat. Other ingredients include lime and lemon juices, tamarind juice, coconut
milk, garlic, lemon grass, galangal, basil, bean sprouts, etc.

• Rice and fish are basic ingredient that is similar to China and India.

Classification of Thai Food

It can be classified to 4 types
1. Rice

2. Side Dishes
3. Desserts

4. One – Plate Dish

1. Rice

It is one of the main foods and sources of nutrition for most Thai citizens.
Thai jasmine rice is the long grain rice which is well known for its fragrance and taste all around the world.



2. Side Dishes : classify to ;
2.1Curry

meat + curry paste + coconut milk, varieties of vegetable meat + curry paste + water, varieties of vegetable

2.2 Soups
• Clear soup ; Stuffed cucumber soup

2.3 Stir – fried
• Mild flavored stir – fried as Sweet and sour stir fried vegetable

• Spicy flavored stir-fried as Stir-fried pork with holy basil

3. Thai salads

Harmonious combinations of tastes, herbal flavors are the key point in
making a salad. The major tastes in salads are sour, salty and sweet. Spiciness
comes in different degrees of strength according to textures and flavors of the
meats used or to the occasions when the salads are served.

4. Dips

Dips are always eaten with rice.
A simple dip is the chilli shrimp paste (Nam Prik Kapi)
Chilies + garlic + shrimp paste + dried shrimps + seasonings of lime juice, fish sauce and sugar.

5. One – plate dish

A complete meal in it self. A one dish item consists of rice or noodle,
meat and vegetable.
For example : Thai fried noodles, Pad thai

During World War II, Thailand suffered a shortage of rice
due to less production in the rice fields, which coincided
with bad flooding.

In order to preserve the stocks of this precious grain, the
Thai government started to promote noodles instead
amongst its people. Noodles used only 50% of the grain,
so were more economical and cheaper to produce.

Prime Minister and Military Dictator,
Plaek Phibunsonghram



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Ingredients of Central Thai food

Kaffir lime leaves Galangal Thai sweet basil
Egg plant
Bird's eye chili Garlic Tomato
Lemon grass Turmeric

Central Thai Foods

“Verse of Food and Dessert” กาพยเ์ ห่ชมเคร่ืองคาว
หวาน

King Rama 2 is considered as a really great teacher of Thai poets.
This Verse of Food and Dessert is about how delicious of Thai Food,
and a little bit about how to cook.
He can put many kinds of food in every individual verse. This poem
should include more than 20 kinds of Thai food.

King Rama IIรัชกาลท่ี 2

The foods in the poem of King Rama II (King Buddha Loetla Nabhalai)
that is “Verse of Food and Dessert”, composed for singing during rowing the boat.

King Rama 2 always compare this great foods with his queen :
Queen Phra Sri Suriyendra Boromarajini (สมเด็จพระศรีสรุ ิเยนทราบรมราชินี)

such as how the food looks like and how the woman dresses, and
how happy to eat the food and how happy to be with a lovely
woman.

Massaman curry

มสั มนั่ แกงแกว้ ตา __________ หอมยี่หร่ารสร้อนแรง
ชายใดไดก้ ลืนแกง __________ แรงอยากให้ใฝ่ ฝันหา
(Any man who just tastes this spicy curry soup will dream to see the woman who cooks.)

La-tiang ล่าเตียง

Fried prawns and nut wrapped in an egg net.

๏ ล่าเตียงคดิ เตียงนอ้ ง __________ นอนเตียงทองทาเมืองบน
ลดหลนั่ ช้นั ชอบกล __________ ยลอยากนิทรคิดแนบนอน

( I am thinking about your bed. It is golden and if we are together, it will be such the heaven. It is interesting
and complicating. I just want to sleep in that bed.)

Rhoom (หรุ่ม)

Fried prawns and nut wrapped in an thin egg sheet.

เห็นหรุ่มรุมทรวงเศร้า __________ รุ่มรุ่มเร้าคือไฟฟอน
เจบ็ ไกลในอาวรณ์ __________ ร้อนรุมรุ่มกลุม้ กลางทรวง
(The fire to cook this food makes the fire inside my mind.)

Miang Kum- เมี่ยงคา
(Betal Leaf-Wrapped Bite-Size with Herbs)

Thai steamed rice-skin dumplings

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Kao-Chae
(Rice in flower-scented water)

Steamed Bird Shaped Dumplings Golden cups

Phanaeng curry

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Kaeng Liang

a traditional herbal, mild and
spicy soup with vegetables.

Kaeng Som

a spicy sour soup with fresh
vegetables, shrimps or fish

Tom Yum

the most frequently ordered dish all over Bangkok, which is mixed
with kung (shrimp), fish and chicken and is flavored with lemon
grass, chilies and kaffir lime leaves