Khao Soi ข้าวซอย
Unlike other typical northern Thai food, khao soi uses coconut cream for the broth,chicken or beef instead of the ubiquitous pork, and wheat egg noodles rather than rice flour ones. The curry base in voles roots like coriander,turmeric, and ginger,and is simmered wiyh coconut cream,stock,soy sauce and palm sugar. Then poured over blanched noodles. Khao soi is served with pungent accompaniments
Like raw shallots, pickled mustard greens and chilli paste.
Naem แหนม
Although this sour,fermented pork saussge is easy enough to find all over Thailand, it is native to Chiang Mai province.Its coarse but soft and luscious texture comes from pureed white sticky rice and shredded pork skin, which are added to salted minced pork before being wrapped in banana leaves and left out in the sun to ferment. Sound dubious?.It tastes anything but .
Nam prik noom น้ำพริกหนุ่ม
This smoky,chunky relish is so iconic of Chiang Mai that you're sure to find jars of it on sale in the Chiang mai airport departure terminal. The eponymous noom are slightly hot , banana chilli-like pepers. Which are grilled with shallots and garlic,peeled. And then pounded with roasted shrimp paste. Which gives it a meaty flavour.The smoke and umami notes play with the fresh aromatics added at the end. Such as spring onion and fresh coriander.
Sai oua
This norther sausage was traditionally made with the discareded odds and ends of pigs. But thanks to sai oua's appealing. Herb-intense flavour. There aren't enough odds and ends to supply the demand anymore . So it typically made with minced fatty pork. Along with a paste of shallots. Cassia bark. Galangal lemongrass.kaffir lime leaves. And other herbs and spices.
Larb muang
The traditional version of this norther pork salad involves lots of offal and even a dash of lemongrass-spiked pork blood though a tourist-friendly meat is easily found today . The mixture is cooked with a paste made from cardamom. Mace and other spices