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Thai cuisine
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culinary traditions of Thailand
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Southeast Asian cuisine
- Country
- Thailand
- Country of origin
- Thailand
- Image
- Khanom Chin - Thai rice noodles.JPG
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- Commons category
- Cuisine of Thailand
- topic's main category
- Category:Thai cuisine
- OpenStreetMap tag
- cuisine=thai
- Commons gallery
- Cuisine of Thailand
- culture
- culture of Thailand
- topic has template
- Template:Thai cuisine
- has list
- list of Thai dishes
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Encyclopedic overview
Thai cuisine (Thai: อาหารไทย, RTGS: ahan thai, pronounced [ʔāː.hǎːn tʰāj]) is the national cuisine of Thailand.
Thai cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with aromatics and spicy heat. The Australian chef David Thompson, an expert on Thai food, observes that unlike many other cuisines, Thai cooking is "about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thai cuisine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.