What are the local dishes?
I cannot go into the whole range of Thai food here but suffice to say it is probably the most popular food in the world for good reason. It is healthy, tasty and varied. Of course, the staples are rice and noodles and they are hard to avoid – you will get rice even if you do not order it generally – but the accompanying dishes are numerous. Most meats are used as are fish and these are fried, boiled or sautéed according to the dish. Flavours are rich but can of course be very spicy too so do ask the level of spice – ‘phet’ means spicy in Thai. They will be happy to adjust the dish for you as nearly all food is cooked freshly to order. Vegetables are wonderfully fresh and there are many you do not easily find in the west used on a daily basis so enjoy the experience. Interestingly, the food here will taste totally different to that you are used to in the west and the stereotypical dishes like ‘pad thai’ or ‘tom yum gung’, whilst widely available here are not local favourites so be adven
