How many types of Thai dishes ?
[E very Thai dish has been directly influenced by geographical regions and culture. Soup comes in a variety of ways. The common soups that you see in day-to-day life are thom jeurt or kaeng jeurt, thoon, thom yaum, thom som, and thom khong. Thom jeurt is usually water based (clear broth) with either salt or fish sauce and sugar. The spice used is pepper. Thoon is the way of long cooking meat or poultry in the spice broth that reduces water to three-fourths or half. Thom yaum is cooking with fresh herbs like chilies, lemon grass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaf. Some soups require spicy sour soup base. Thom khong is usually cooked with the whole dried fish. Most have an unpleasant smell from the dried fish and can be very spicy. Salad comes from three major types: laab, yaum, and plar. Each part of the country may have different names but the fundamental ingredients are the same, only the way of cooking is different. Laab has ground roasted rice for the main component. It is made from gr
