THAILAND VEG FOOD

In Thailand there are many varieties of food cuisines. As most of the tourists are from the Asian Countries and most of them prefer the Vegetarian food, Thailand provides the vegetarian food for the Tourists almost all places in Thailand. The major Vegetarian food in Thailand is RICE and NOODLES. Rice is a staple grain of Thailand.

Noodles are also very famous as well but usually come as a single dish. Noodles are usually made from either rice flour, wheat flour or mung bean flour and include six diiferent types.

Apart from Rice and Noodles Thailand Vegetarian food have Vegetables, herbs and Spices. Thai dishes use a wide variety of herbs, spices and leaves rarely found in the west side of Thailand. The Veg Items in Thailand have the varieties like coriander roots, dried peppercorns, spinach and all other major stuff.

Desserts, Sweets Snacks and Drinks:

Most Thai meals finish with fresh fruit but sometimes a sweet snack will be served as a dessert.

• Chaokuai - grass jelly is often served with only shaved ice and brown sugar.
• Khanom bua loi – mashed taro root and pumpkin are mixed with rice flour into small balls, boiled and then served in coconut milk.
• Khanom chan – multi-layers of pandan-flavored sticky rice flour mixed with coconut milk.
• Khanom mo kaeng - a sweet baked pudding containing coconut milk, eggs, palm sugar and flour, sprinkled with sweet fried onions.
• Khanom tan – palm flavored mini cake with shredded coconut on top.
• Khanom thuai talai - steamed sweet coconut jelly and cream.
• Khao lam - A cake made from steamed rice mixed with beans or peas, grated coconut and coconut milk.
Khao niao mamuang - sticky rice cooked in sweetened thick coconut milk, served with slices of ripe mango.
• Lot chong nam kathi – pandan flavored rice flour noodles in coconut milk, similar to the Indonesian cendol.
• Ruam mit – mixed ingredients, such as chestnuts covered in flour, jackfruit, lotus root, tapioca, and lot chong, in coconut milk.
• Sarim – multi-colored mung bean flour noodles in sweetened coconut milk served with crushed ice.
• Sangkhaya fak thong - egg and coconut custard served with pumpkin, similar to the coconut jam of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
• Tako - jasmine scented coconut pudding set in cups of fragrant pandanus leaf.