Food · Curated list
Fish sauce, Tom yum, Pad thai and 22 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the dish or drink's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Condiment made from fish
A liquid condiment made from krill or fish salted and fermented for as long as two years. It is a staple seasoning of East and Southeast Asian cooking, above all in Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
Wikidata · Photo: Heinrich Damm ( User:Hdamm , Hdamm at German Wikipedia ), CC BY 2.0
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Thai coconut milk and chicken soup
Also called tom kha gai, or Thai coconut soup, a hot, spicy and sour soup of Thai cooking made with coconut milk.
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Southeast Asian dish
Seasoned rice with chicken, poached or roasted, eaten with chilli sauce and usually garnished with cilantro, cucumbers or sliced tomato. Immigrants from Hainan, in southern China, created it from the Hainanese dishes Wenchang chicken and Wenchang chicken rice.
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Mild Thai curry
A rich, flavourful Thai curry, only mildly spicy. A fusion dish, it combines foreign ingredients from three regions, the Malay Archipelago, the Indian subcontinent and Persia, with ingredients more usual in native Thai cooking to make its curry paste.
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Fried rice dish from Thailand
One of Thailand's best-loved dishes, spelled variously pad gaprao, pad kaprao or pad kaprow.
Wikidata · Photo: Iudexvivorum, CC0
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Thai energy drink related to Red Bull
An uncarbonated energy drink created by Chaleo Yoovidhya, sold mainly in East and Southeast Asia; Red Bull, derived from it, is sold in 165 countries.
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Brand of coffee produced in Thailand
A brand of coffee made by the Black Ivory Coffee Company Ltd in Surin province, in Isan, Northeast Thailand, from Arabica coffee beans eaten by elephants and collected from their dung. A recent study suggests that fermentation of the coffee by microbes in the elephants' gut may shape its taste and chemistry.
Wikidata · Photo: Blake Dinkin - blackivorycoffee, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dishes in Thai cuisine made with curry paste
A Thai dish made from curry paste with coconut milk or water, herbs, and meat, seafood, vegetables or fruit. Thai curries differ from those of the Indian subcontinent mainly in using fresh rhizomes, herbs and fragrant leaves instead of a blend of dried spices.
Wikidata · Photo: FotoosVanRobin from Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Fried rice variety
A fried rice of central Thailand's cooking. Its Thai name joins khao, "rice", with phat, "of or relating to being stir-fried."
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Ice cream dessert
Also called rolled ice cream or ice cream rolls, a sweet frozen dessert made from milk, cream and sugars, with other ingredients added for flavour.
Wikidata · Photo: Thomson200, CC0
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Variety of curry
Known in Thai as kaeng kari, a Thai dish seasoned with turmeric, cumin, coriander and fenugreek, with cinnamon, mace, ginger, garlic and bay leaf, with cayenne pepper, lemongrass and makrut lime, and with salt. Having less chilli, it is usually milder than other Thai curries.
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Thai dish
Also called drunkard noodles, a Thai stir-fried noodle dish like phat si-io but hotter. Its Thai name (ผัดขี้เมา, RTGS: phat khi mao) appears in English as pad kimao, pad ki mao or pad kee mao; phat means 'to stir-fry' and khi mao 'drunkard'.
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Thick, salty, sweet red Thai curry paste
Also spelled Panang, a Thai curry known for its thick, creamy texture and its gently sweet, fragrant flavour. It comes from central Thailand, and is usually made with a paste based on red curry, cooked in coconut cream until the oil splits out, giving a rich sauce that coats the meat.
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Southeast Asian type of curry steam-cooked in banana leaves
A Southeast Asian curry traditionally steamed or roasted in banana leaves and eaten with rice. Its base is usually curry paste, sometimes with eggs and coconut milk or cream.
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Stir-fried noodle dish from Thailand
A stir-fried noodle dish widely eaten in Thailand, easy to find at street food stalls and common in Thai restaurants around the world.
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Indonesian traditional snack
Called kue cucur in Indonesian, kuih cucur in Malay, and khanom fak bua or khanom chuchun in Thai, a traditional Indonesian snack popular in parts of Southeast Asia, including Singapore, southern Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. In Indonesia it is sold in traditional markets across the country, though the best-loved version is the Betawi one from Jakarta.
Wikidata · Photo: Tim WikiPuluran - WikiBanua, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Fried rice meal served with American style foods
A Thai fried rice dish served with "American" sides such as ketchup, raisins, sausages, ham and fried chicken; croutons and pineapple are optional.
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Every Wikidata item that is a dish, drink, dessert or cheese whose cuisine, on Wikidata, is Thai cuisine, or whose country of origin is Thailand, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 25 are shown.
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