Thai cuisine is one of the 5 best

Thai cuisine refers to typical foods, beverages, and cooking styles common to the country of Thailand in Southeast Asia. Thai Cuisine is well-known for being hot and spicy and for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal - spicy, sour, sweet, and salty.

Although popularly considered as a single cuisine, Thai food would be more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern (or Isan), Central, and Southern, each cuisine sharing similar foods or derived from those of neighboring countries. Southern curries, for example, tend to contain coconut milk and fresh turmeric, while northeastern dishes often include lime juice. The cuisine of Northeastern Thailand is heavily influenced by Laos. Many popular dishes eaten in Thailand were originally Chinese dishes which were introduced to Thailand mainly by Teochew people who make up the majority of the Thai Chinese. Such dishes include Jok, Kuay Teow Rad Na, Khao Kha Moo and Khao Mun Gai

                                                                                                            Khao Mun Gai

Thai food is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh herbs and spices as well as fish sauce. Thai food is popular in many Western countries especially in Australia, New Zealand, some countries in Europe such as the United Kingdom, as well as the United States, and Canada.

Many Thai dishes are familiar in the West. In many dishes pictured, different kinds of protein can be chosen as the ingredient, such as beef, chicken, pork, duck, tofu or seafood.

Khao Pad is one of the most common dishes in Thailand, fried rice, Thai style. Usually with chicken, beef, shrimp, pork, crab or coconut or pineapple, or vegetarian.

Pad Thai is rice noodles pan fried with fish sauce, sugar, lime juice or tamarind pulp, chopped peanuts, and egg combined with chicken, seafood, or tofu.

Rad na is a dish of wide rice noodles in gravy, with beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, or seafood.

Khao pad naem is fried rice with fermented sausage, typically from the Northeast.

Pad see ew is noodles stir-fried with see ew dum  (thick sweet soy sauce) and nahm plah (fish sauce) and pork or chicken.

Pad kee mao is noodles stir-fried with Thai basil.

Khao khluk kapi is rice stir-fried with shrimp paste, served with sweetened pork and vegetables.

Khanom chin namya is round boiled rice noodles topped with various curry sauces and eaten with fresh leaves and vegetables.

Khao soi is crispy wheat noodles in sweet chicken curry soup.

Khao pad gai is fried rice with chicken

Khao mun gai is rice steamed with garlic, with boiled chicken, chicken stock and dipping sauce.

Gai pad grapao - minced chicken with garlic, chilies, and holy basil.

Gai pad med mamoung himaphan is juicy chunks of chicken with cashew nuts and chilies.