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Thai Grand RestaurantThai Restaurant 18 The Rushes, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 5BE Phone: 01509 211299 Phone: 01509 211299 Found in category: Leicestershire Restaurants - Fast Food, Leicestershire Thai Food |
Thai HouseThai Restaurant and Take Away 5a High Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2PY Phone: 01509 260030 Phone: 01509 260030 Found in category: Leicestershire Restaurants - General, Leicestershire Thai Food, Leicestershire Restaurants - Takeaway, Leicestershire Takeaway Restaurants |
Further Information on Thai Food
Famous dishes
Many Thai dishes are familiar in the West. In many dishes below, different kinds of protein can be chosen as the ingredient, such as beef, chicken, pork, duck, tofu or seafood.
Breakfast dishes
Jok a rather bland rice porridge very commonly eaten in Thailand for breakfast. Similar to the the rice congee eaten in other parts of Asia.
Khao Tom - a Thai style rice soup, usually with pork.
Individual dishes
Khao Pad 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 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 - wide rice noodles in gravy, with beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, or seafood.
Khao pad naem - fried rice with fermented sausage (typically from the Northeast)
Pad see ew - noodles stir-fried with see ew dum (thick soy sauce) and nahm plah (fish sauce) and pork or chicken.
Pad kee mao - noodles stir-fried with Thai basil
Khao khluk kapi - rice stir-fried with shrimp paste, served with sweeten pork and vegetables.
Khanom chin namya- round boiled rice noodles topped with various curry sauces and eaten with fresh leaves and vegetables.
Khao soi - crispy wheat noodles in sweet chicken curry soup (a Northern dish)
Khao pad gai - fried rice with chicken
Kaphrao gai - minced chicken in sauce made up of a combination of hot green chilies, garlic, and basil
Gai himaphan - juicy chunks of chicken with cashew nuts and chilies
Central Thai shared dishes
Tom yam - hot & sour soup with meat. With shrimp it is called Tom yam goong or Tom yam kung , with seafood (typically shrimp, squid, fish) Tom yam talae , with chicken Tom yam gai .
Gai Pad Khing - chicken stir-fried with sliced ginger.
Tom kha gai - hot sweet soup with chicken and coconut milk.
Saté - grilled meat, usually pork or chicken, served with cucumber salad and peanut sauce (actually of Indonesian origin, but now a popular street food in Thailand).
Red curry - made with copious amounts of dried red chillies
Green curry - green curry, made with fresh green chillies and flavoured with Thai basil, and chicken or fish meatballs. This dish is one of the spiciest of Thai curries.
Massaman curry - an Indian style curry, usually made by Thai-Muslims, containing roasted dried spices, such as coriander seed, that are rarely found in other Thai curries.
Pad prik - usually beef stir fried with chili, called Neua pad prik
Pad kaphrao - beef, pork or chicken stir fried with Thai Holy basil.
Pad pak ruam - stir fried combination of vegetables depending on availability and preference.
Panaeng - dry curry with beef chicken, or pork. It includes some roasted dried spices similar to Massaman curry.
Tod man - deep fried fishcake made from knifefish or shrimp
Boo Jah crab cakes with pork, garlic, and pepper served with a simple spicy sauce, such as Sri Rachaa sauce, sweet-hot garlic sauce, nahm prik pao (roasted chili paste), or red curry paste and chopped green onions.
Choo-Chee Plah Ga-Pong - snapper in choo-chee curry sauce (thick red curry sauce)
Northeastern shared dishes
Som tam grated papaya salad, pounded with a mortar and pestle. There are three main variations: with salted black crab, and Som tam Thai with peanuts, dried shrimp and palm sugar and Som tam plara from north eastern part of Thailand (Isan), with salted gourami fish, white eggplants, fish sauce and long bean.
Larb - sour salads containing meat, onions, chillies, roasted rice powder and garnished with mint.
Nam Tok - made with beef and identical to larb, except that the beef is cut into thin strips rather than minced.
Yam - general name for any type of sour salad, such as those made with glass noodles , or with seafood .
Tom saep - Northeastern-style hot & sour soup
Gai yang - marinated, grilled chicken
Sticky rice
Nam prik num - dipping sauce made from roasted eggplant, green chillies, and garlic grounded together in a mortar and pestle.
Desserts and Drinks
Kao niao ma muang- Sticky rice and ripe mango
Kao niao Durian- Sticky rice and durian in coconut milk
Gluay buad chee Banana in coconut milk
Foi Tong , Tong yib , Tong yod - Different forms of egg yolk mixed with sugar and other ingredients. Some believe this is European in origin.
Kanome Maw Gaeng - sweet potato pudding
Fried Banana with Ice Cream
Cha Yen - Thai Iced Tea
Kah-Feh Yen - Thai Iced Coffee