Thai Shared Dishes, served together with a single main dish and shared by all at the meal
Tom yam ( ) – A Hot and Sour soup served with Beef, Pork.
Tom yam Gai. When served with chicken
Tom yam Goong / Kung. When served with Prawn.
Tom yam Talae. When served with seafood such as shrimp, squid or fish.
Gai Pad Khing – Ginger chicken.
Tom kha gai (ต้มข่าไก่) – Hot and Sour soup with Chicken and Coconut milk.
Satay (สะเต๊ะ) – grilled meat mainly pork or chicken, served with cucumber salad and a peanut sauce, popular street or market food
Gaeng phet (Red Curry) (แกงเผ็ด) - Hot meat curry made with a copious amount of chilli.
Gaeng khiew-waan (Green Curry)( แกงเขียวหวาน) - Curry made with either Fish/ fishballs or chicken, and fresh green chillies and flavoured with fresh Thai Basil, one of the spiciest and popular Thai Dishes.
Massaman curry(แกงมัสมั่น) – Curry made with roasted spices and large amount of Coriander, to give an Indian style, not typical of a Thai curry
Neua pad prik(เนื้อผัดพริก) - Meat stir- fry mainly Beef, with a large amount of chillies
Pad kaphrao(ผัดกะเพรา) - Stir-fried Beef, Pork or Chicken with Thai holy Basil
Pad pak ruam(ผัดผักรวม) – Vegetable Stir-fry depending on avialablility and personal choice
Panaeng(พะแนง) - Dry curry with dried spices
Tod man(ทอดมัน) – Deep fried fishcakes, mainly made from Knifefish(Tod man pla kria,(ทอดมันปลากราย) or shrimp, (Tod man kung(ทอดมันกุ้ง)
Boo Jah, Thai Crab Cakes - Crab cakes made with crab, pork, garlic and pepper, normally served with a spicy Sri Rachaa sauce, a sweet and hot nahm prik poa sauce or a red curry paste and chopped spring onion
Choo-Chee Plah ga Pong – Fish, such a Snapper in a choo-chee (thick red curry)
Som tam(ส้มตำ) - Papaya Salad, a basic mix of grated papaya, tomatoes, cucumber and vaious pastes, ground together, there are three main regional variations, and even variations within different the regions
Som tam poo(ส้มตำปู) - with salted black crab or small green crab
Som tam Thai(ส้มตำไทย) – with peanuts dried shrimp and palm sugar
Som tam plara(ส้มตำปลาร้า) - with salted fish, eggplants, long bean and fish sauce, made very spicy, typical papaya salad in Isaan in the northeast
Som tam, is also made with varying degree’s of Hot and spicy, Som Tam 1. Som tam 2 and Som tam 3.
Larb(ลาบ) – A sour Salad including minced meat. onions, chillies, roasted rice powder.
Namtok(น้ำตก) – Made same as Larb, but with beef strips
Yam( ยำ ) - Name used for any variation of a sour salad
Yam wun sen(ยำวุ้นเส้น)- when made with glass noodles
Yam talae(ยำทะเล)- when made with shrimp or seafood
Tom saep(ต้มแซบ) - A Hot and Sour soup from Isaan, Northeast
Gai yaung(ไก่ย่าง) - Grilled chicken, marinated in spices and chillie paste
Khoa neow (Sticky Rice)( ข้าวเหนียว) - special rice that becomes sticky when boiled, used to dip into any dish, sauces or pastes
Namprik num(น้ำพริกหนุ่ม) – A dipping sauce of roasted eggplant, green chillies, and garlic pounded together in a pastel and mortar
