Thai curry is a dish in Thai cuisine made from curry paste, coconut milk or water, meat, seafood, vegetables or fruit, and herbs. Curries in Thailand mainly differ from the curries in India in their use of ingredients such as fresh rhizomes, herbs, and aromatic leaves over a mix of dried spices.
A bowl of kaeng phet pet yang, roast duck in red curry
Some of the fresh ingredients for red curry paste
Ingredients for green curry
Red, green and yellow Thai curry pastes
Thai cuisine is the national cuisine of Thailand.
Yam wun sen kung: a spicy Thai salad with glass noodles and prawns
The art of vegetable carving is thought to have originated in the Sukhothai Kingdom nearly 700 years ago.
Chili peppers, originally from the Americas, were introduced to Thailand by the Portuguese and Spanish.
Kaeng phet pet yang, a legacy of the palace cuisine of Ayutthaya