Thai cuisine is known for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal - hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty and bitter (optional). Although popularly considered as a single cuisine, Thai food is really more accurately described as four regional cuisines corresponding to the four main regions of the country: Northern, Northeastern (or Isan), Central and Southern. Southern cuisine, for example, usually contains lots of heat from chillies while northeastern tends to include lime juice in the ingredients.
Many Thai dishes are familiar in the west. In many dishes below, different kinds of meat can be chosen as the ingredient, such as beef, chicken, pork, or seafood. Single Thai dishes to order:-Pad Thai - rice noodles pan fried with fish sauce, sugar, lime juice or tamarind pulp and egg combined with chicken, seafood, and tofu, Lad nar - noodles in gravy, with beef, pork, chicken, shrimp, or seafood. (Originally from China) Pad see ew - noodles pan fried with soysauce, with pork or chicken. Pad kee mao - noodles pan fried with Thai basil Khao kluk kapi - rice stir-fried with shrimp paste, served with sweeten pork and vegetables. Khanom Cheen Nam Ya - round rice noodle in topped with soup containing fishmeat and fishball and vegetable. Khao soi - crispy noodles in sweet chicken curry soup (Northern cuisine).