Thai Food
Thai food is varied and colourful and certainly regarded as one of the best cuisines worldwide. The mis-conception about Thai food is that it is always spicy, indeed many Thai dishes are not spicy at all. Thais use a range of spices in their cooking which have Indian and Chinese origins and Thai food is always full of many different flavours.
The staple of the Thai diet is rice which is offered and eaten at every meal. Rice is so important in Thai culture that the word to eat is derived from the word for rice.
Food is available at all times of the day or night and the locals prefer to eat several small meals a day consisting of small dishes rather than one large meal.
There are many street vendors in Thailand selling anything from noodle soup to barbecued chicken at the roadside providing a healthy and satisfying snack.
Restaurants are plentiful and excellent value and offer a wide variety of Thai and international cuisine. Expect to pay only a few hundred Baht for a meal at small local Thai restaurants.