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A typical Thai meal consists of different dishes, which may include soup, salad, stir-fry, curry, and dipping sauces. Steaming white rice is always on the table. Then there is dessert, which may include sweets based on sugar and eggs.

A key to good food anywhere is fresh ingredients, and in Thailand these are often right around the corner. In the cities and towns, markets sell fresh fruit, vegetables, fish, and the most diverse types of spices.

If you are visiting Thailand don’t miss trying tom yam goong, the hot-and-sour shrimp soup that is its specialty. There is also Ma ho, meaning “galloping horses”, a mixture of pork, prawns, and peanuts making a pile on fresh pineapple, and garnished with red chilies and coriander leaves. To top off your meal, try a dessert of sticky rice with coconut milk and mangoes.

What is the best way to eat Thai food? In some parts of the country, custom calls for using your fingers to press sticky rice into small balls, which you then dip into sauces and pop into your mouth. Then, chopsticks are very popular. But if you fail using them, you can always resort to a fork and a spoon.

Is your appetite now attracted by Thai cuisine? The specialties of this beautiful Asian country may open up a world of tastes you have not yet explored—that of delicious food from the Orient.

Adapted from: A taste of Thailand. Awake! July 2008 https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g200807/A-Taste-of-Thailand/

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