Loog Choob or Miniature fruit

Preparation of this Thai dessert will definitely enhance your creative impulse. You just need to have some wild imagination, delicate fingers, food coloring and small paint brush. Your Loog Choob is ready. To serve two to four persons you need to arrange half cup sugar, four cups coconut milk, one cup hulled mung beans, two to three bamboo skewers, and one package gelatin or food colors. The process is simple and it won’t take much time to prepare this Thai dish.

Mung bean should be boiled till it becomes soft and tender. You should make it like a pate. Coconut milk is added little at a time. Then the whole composition should be stirred in sugar. You can use low heat throughout the process. The paste should be so smooth that no one can feel a single bean kernel. The paste should be cooled before using this further. The gelatin can be prepared very easily after reading the instruction written on the packet.

After this the important part begins where you have the chance to show your talent and become popular in your kid’s friends circle. Take a small amount of the paste and shape it into a form a fruits, vegetables or if possible any animal. After that you can stick your fruit or vegetables on the skewer and this is mainly because of easy handling. After that color should be added on these with a fine brush. Gelatin will help to seal the color. The objects should be stuck to the skewer till the gelatin becomes completely set. Your dessert is ready. Place these in a plate and see the reaction of your tiny one. I can tell you from my experience you will get a warm hug and yes that’s your price…

Eating and Ordering Thai Food

Thai food is really tasty if you can eat proper food in proper time. You should also know proper etiquette of having Thai food. Thai food is usually eaten with a fork and spoon. Some of the single dish meals such as steamed rice topped with roasted duck or fried rice with pork are served in slices or chunks. The spoon is used to take the food in to mouth. Thai food is internationally famed. People from around the world relish this food with great interest. Sometime Thai foods are chili-hot while sometimes they are bland. Thai cuisine can be interpreted as a combination of Eastern and Western types and now these are uniquely Thai. Thai cooking depends on many aspects such as who is cooking it, for whom is the dish being cooked, for which specific occasion, etc.

In has been seen from past that waterborne e.g. aquatic animals, herbs, plants, were the major ingredients of Thai food. Large pieces of meats are usually avoided. And that is the reason why sizeable chunks of meats are introduced to Thai food. Eating Thai food is ideal with two or more people in a group. This is useful because greater the no of the persons, greater the no of dishes ordered. When the diners are two, they should order three side dishes besides their own steamed rice plates. When the diners are three, the side dishes should be four and the counting should continue like this. Soups can be a good starter in most of the cases. Spicy dishes are usually taken to balance with the bland dishes.

The ideal Thai dish is a mixture of hot, sour, sweet and spicy. It should definitely be satisfying to nose, eyes and also palate. A typical Thai meal includes a clear soup like melons stuffed with minced pork, a steamed rice, a hot salad made of onions, lettuce, chilies, lemon juice, and mint, a fried dish, and different kinds of sauces into which food is dipped. All these dishes would be followed by some fresh fruits such as jackfruit, mangoes, grape, papaya and melon. A sweet dessert can also be added to the end part of a nice meal.

Eating Habits and striking Thai meals in Thailand

Thailand is always rocking when the topic is about food. Thai foods are excellent in taste. People from all over the world relish Thai food because of its taste and food value. Some of the Thai dishes are so tasty that they can easily boast of their origin. No one will forget the taste of these delicious dishes if tasted once in his lifetime. Freshly-steamed Jasmine rice, shrimp soup, chicken green curry, spicy papaya salad with crisp vegetables and ‘pad Thai’. You cannot forget one or the other. Don’t forget to take Thai dessert ‘kanom’. Fresh fruits are common in Thailand and that is why people prefer to eat lot of them. You should not forget to taste the sweet-smelling sticky rice garnished with juicy mango.

An authentic and traditional Thai dish consists of soup, curry dish, salad and a lip smacking dessert. Spicy and mild dishes are mixed to balance the taste and also neutralize in a better way. Thai people enjoy spicy dishes in all the time including morning time. Thai meal is served in a single time. For breakfast they usually like rice topped with curry and a fried egg. ‘Prik nam pla’ or chilies sliced in fish sauce usually accompany the dish. ‘Kao niew moo ping’ i.e. grilled pork with sticky rice is favourite among the office goers who want something ready to cook. In Thailand, lunch is normally heavy while dinner is always shared with friends and relatives. In the evening they like to take some light snacks. Thai people have a common tendency to eat more. Though they take normal three time food still they have elongated snacking of ‘gin len’ in between meals. You will get food everywhere in the city. The varieties are fresh orange juice, lots of fruits, ‘look chin ping’ or grilled meat balls, roti pancake with condensed milk with banana, egg and fried bugs, etc. All these street foods are available in incredible low prices.

Thai people love to share food with friends and family. Even in restaurants also you will have the option of sharing of food. It enhances the growth of friendship and also socializing with lot of people at the same time.