Thai food has spread around the world. But now this food has come under scrutiny by a Thai government agency that has created a device to define strict standards for recipes that will apply everywhere in the world.
No matter whether you are preparing your tom yam for sale in New York, in Alaska, or in Papua New Guinea, they should all be identical in flavour and aroma. No differences can be tolerated. In other words, dishes that could previously be interpreted in various ways must now conform.
The reason this project came about has to do with a trip abroad made by the previous prime minister, during which she tasted the Thai food there and complained to those travelling with her that it wasn't very good. This pronouncement sounded the alarm for ministers and others to offer their thoughts on the issue of finding a way to have Thai dishes everywhere taste the same.
This meeting of minds came to the conclusion that the cause of the problem had to do with the fact that the Thai restaurants overseas weren't owned by Thais but by Vietnamese, Chinese and Laos, who did not have a good understanding of Thai cuisine, and that as a result the food they cooked was not up to standard. The way to remedy this deficiency, they decided, was to define standards for the flavour of Thai food, making it uniform by means of a single recipe.
Thai food has spread around the world. But now this food has come under scrutiny by a Thai government agency that has created a device to define strict standards for recipes that will apply everywhere in the world.
No matter whether you are preparing your tom yam for sale in New York, in Alaska, or in Papua New Guinea, they should all be identical in flavour and aroma. No differences can be tolerated. In other words, dishes that could previously be interpreted in various ways must now conform.
The reason this project came about has to do with a trip abroad made by the previous prime minister, during which she tasted the Thai food there and complained to those travelling with her that it wasn't very good. This pronouncement sounded the alarm for ministers and others to offer their thoughts on the issue of finding a way to have Thai dishes everywhere taste the same.
This meeting of minds came to the conclusion that the cause of the problem had to do with the fact that the Thai restaurants overseas weren't owned by Thais but by Vietnamese, Chinese and Laos, who did not have a good understanding of Thai cuisine, and that as a result the food they cooked was not up to standard. The way to remedy this deficiency, they decided, was to define standards for the flavour of Thai food, making it uniform by means of a single recipe.
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