I spent most of the day at the Book Fair at Queen Sirikit Convention Hall. The big fairs are usually during the school holidays in April and October. I used to comment that Thai people don’t like reading much (apart from cartoon books), but every year more and more people go to these book fairs. Today was packed and I could hardly move. I bought quite a few books that I will share with you later, but first I want to show you this book which is all about the Top 10 of Thai Food! Obviously one of my favourite subjects. As you can see, the book is in Thai. I think I already have the best of the cookery books in English. Most of them are quite limited and repeat themselves a lot. So, that is why today I was browsing through the cook books written by Thai people. A better selection for sure. I bought half a dozen cook books which will help me a lot identifying the ingredients of street food that I have already photographed. I could blog about Thai food every day, I am just lacking the information sometimes.

Anyway, according to this book, the following is the Top 10 list of Thai Food:

Hot and sour soup with shrimp
Green curry with chicken
Fried Noodles
Pork fried in basil
Red curry with roast duck
Coconut soup with chicken
Thai style salad with beef
Satay pork
Fried chicken with cashew
Panang curry

In Thai:

ต้มยำกุ้ง (tom yum goong)
แกงเขียวหวาน (gaeng kiaw waen gai)
ผัดไทย (pad tai)
ผัดกระเพรา (pat ga-prao)
แกงเผ็ดเป็ดย่าง (gaeng pet bet yaang)
ต้มข่าไก่ (tom kaa gai)
ยำเนื้อย่าง (yam neua yaang)
สะเต๊ะหมู (moo sa-teh)
ไก่ผัดเม็ดมะม่วงหิมพานต์ (gai pat met ma-muang him-ma-paan)
พะแนง (pa-naeng)


Don't forget to visit the our group to discuss Thai food!

http://www.zorpia.com/group/thaifood/

My list:

1. Pad Thai
2. Tom Yum Goong
3. Massaman curry
4. Panang curry
5. Green/red curry
6. Papaya Salad (Som Tum)
7. Larb
8. Stir-fried chilli basil with pork/chicken mince (Pad kha pao)
9. Thai fried rice
10. Stir-fried cashew nut