Thai Cuisine: Rohana Choo's Kitchen
By Rohana Choo
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This ebook covers the versatile authentic cusine from Thailand. It covers starters, warm salads, the famous green/red/Thai curry, noodles, rice dishes and deserts. There is also an authentic essential sauces section so everything can be made at home.
Rohana Choo
Rohana has had a fantastic career cooking on cruise ships throughout the Far East. She has travelled far and wide with her specialist skills cooking a variety of cuisine from her homeland Malaysia and Asia. Rohana has years of experience cooking up dishes from: Thailand, Singapore, China and Japan. She has recently taken to the lecture theater and now teachers in Australia, about the history and delights of East Asian Food.Rohana is a globe trotter and loves cultures from all over the world she is also fascinated with nostalgic travelling guides and has brought back to life some great guidebooks from times gone bye, where tourists travelled by train or boat more often than plane to reach their destinations. Fascinating reading and ideal alternative travel guides.
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Thai Cuisine - Rohana Choo
ABOUT THAILAND
Thailand is about the same size as Texas. It covers about 200,000 square miles on the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia. The land is diverse with beaches, plains, mountains and rainforests. Its population is approximately 65 million. Ten million live in the capital city of Bangkok and 90 percent of the people are ethnic Thai. About 95 percent of the population is Buddhist and 85 percent of the people speak only the Thai language.
The Buddhist religion is respected in Thailand to the point that it is against the law to perform sacrilegious acts Buddha images. Visitors should never touch, spit near or throw things at Buddha images or statues.
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, the population respect their king as much as their religion. King Bhumibol Adulyadej has ruled since 1946. Visitors are advised never to say anything negative about the King while in the presence of a Thai person.
The people of Thailand perform a gesture called a wai.
It is used to say hello and show respect - the palms are pressed together with the fingers on the chin, then the head is bowed. A wai is first performed by the person of inferior social status. This is mostly the younger person. – a response would be to wai back or smile.
It is considered very bad manners to lose your temper in Thailand, you will rarely see a Thai person angry. In fact, the more angry a Thai person gets, the broader their smile becomes.
In Thailand different parts of the body have different significance, the head is considered noble since it is the highest part - never touch a Thai person on the head (includes children). The feet are considered lowly they should never be used to point, and the soles of the feet should never be shown.
Men and women are kept separate in public. Men are forbidden to touch a woman in any way without her permission (including a handshake or tapping on the shoulder). Women are not allowed to touch a Buddhist monk at any time or hand something to a monk and public displays of affection are considered improper.
The country is a popular travel destination because of its friendly people, beautiful scenery and favorable exchange rate. It is one of the cheapest places to travel in Asia. Bangkok is a major airline hub, so flights there tend to be cheap. Thailand's tourist highlights include the thriving city of Bangkok, the ancient temples of Chiang Mai, the beach resorts of Phuket and the hill tribes of the Golden Triangle.
THAI FOOD
Thai cuisine and surrounding neighbours have mutually influenced one another over the course of many centuries. Regional variations tend to correlate to neighboring states. Southern curries tend to contain coconut milk and fresh turmeric, while northeastern dishes often include limejuice. The cuisine of Northeastern (or Isan) Thailand is similar to southern Lao cuisine whereas northern Thai cuisine shares many dishes with northern Lao cuisine and the cuisine of Shan state in Burma. Many popular dishes eaten in Thailand originated as Chinese dishes, which were introduced to Thailand mainly by the Teochew people who make up the majority of the Thai Chinese - who also introduced the use of a wok for cooking, the use of deep-frying and stir-frying dishes, with noodles, oyster sauce and soybean products.
About Pastes and Sauces
Sauces
The ingredient found in almost all Thai dishes and every region of the country is nam pla, a very aromatic and strong tasting fish sauce – this imparts a unique character to Thai food. Fish sauce is prepared with fermented fish which makes a fragrant condiment and provides a salty flavor. There are many varieties of fish sauce, some fish may be fermented with shrimp and/or spices.
Pla ra is also a sauce made from fermented fish. It is more pungent than nam pla, and, in contrast to nam pla which is a clear liquid, it is opaque and often contains pieces of fish. To use it in som tam (spicy papaya salad) is a matter of preference.
Kapi, Thai - Shrimp paste, is a combination of fermented ground shrimp and salt. It is used in red curry paste, in the famous chili paste called nam phrik kapi and in rice dishes such as khao khluk kapi.
Nam phrik