You may already know these fruits which are some of my favorites: mango, banana, and pineapple. I also came to like tamarind, mangosteen, and lychee. You have to try these! Tamarind fruit look like peas but taste sweet. Mangosteen fruits are fun to open: you squish the hard shell and find within it is soft white edible part. Lychee looks like spikey pink balls, but you just peel off the inedible outer layers and the flesh is so sweet. I also enjoy coconuts both as a drink and as a snack. You can see coconut and banana trees everywhere in Thailand. I can’t wait for the fruit-ripening season in Bangkok, as I would love to pick these fruit straight off the trees!
I feel so happy to try all these foods – especially the fruit because I always loved fruit and smoothies! I also love it when I find something new that tastes great such as when I found out about tom yum. Yum!
A typical Thai dinner will have four to five dishes and take around two hours to be prepared. Thais spend a lot of time preparing food because the ingredients are frequently small and take time to be washed, cut, and dried. After all the ingredients are ready, the actual cooking part takes under an hour.
Most foods are kept simmering hot after being prepared so they are ready for people to eat. This heating also helps deepen the flavors, and seeing how Thais love to use a variety of spice in their cooking, the longer they keep a dish simmering, the richer the flavors will become. A lot of Thai food is cooked over stove or grill.
The fruit is picked from trees, and a vendor typically cuts up the fruit to be bite-size and ready-to-eat.
