{"id":2077,"date":"2020-04-02T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baan26.com\/thai-food-delivery\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:59:20","slug":"thai-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baan26.com\/thai-food-delivery\/thai-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThaiFresh fruit forms a large part of the Thai diet, and are customarily served after a meal as dessert. The Scottish author\u00a0John Crawfurd<\/a>, sent on an embassy to Bangkok in 1822, writes in his account of the journey: “The fruits of Siam, or at least of the neighbourhood of Bangkok, are excellent and various, surpassing, according to the experience of our party (…) those of all other parts of India.”<\/sup>\u00a0The Siamese themselves consume great quantities of fruit, and the whole neighbourhood of Bangkok is one forest of fruit trees.<\/sup> Fruit is not only eaten on its own, but often served with spicy dips made from sugar, salt, and chilies.[44]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Fruits feature in spicy salads such as\u00a0som tam<\/i>\u00a0(green papaya salad) and\u00a0yam som-o<\/i>\u00a0(pomelo salad), in soups with\u00a0tamarind<\/a>\u00a0juice such as\u00a0tom khlong<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0kaeng som<\/a><\/i>, and in Thai curries such as\u00a0kaeng kanun<\/i>\u00a0(jackfruit curry),\u00a0kaeng pet phet yang<\/i>\u00a0(grilled duck curry with pineapple or grapes), and\u00a0kaeng pla sapparot<\/i> (fish and pineapple Thai curry<\/a>). Fruits are also used in certain Thai chili pastes, such as in nam phrik long rue<\/i>\u00a0made with\u00a0madan<\/i>\u00a0(a close relative of the\u00a0mangosteen<\/a>),<\/sup>\u00a0and\u00a0nam phrik luk nam liap<\/i>, salted black\u00a0Chinese olive<\/a>\u00a0chilli paste.<\/sup> Although many of the exotic fruits of Thailand may have been sometimes unavailable in Western countries, Asian markets now import such fruits as\u00a0rambutan<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0lychees<\/a>. In Thailand one can find\u00a0papaya<\/a>,\u00a0jackfruit<\/a>,\u00a0mango<\/a>,\u00a0mangosteen<\/a>,\u00a0langsat<\/a>,\u00a0longan<\/a>,\u00a0pomelo<\/a>,\u00a0pineapple<\/a>,\u00a0rose apples<\/a>,\u00a0durian<\/a>,\u00a0Burmese grapes<\/a>\u00a0and other native fruits.\u00a0Chantaburi<\/a>\u00a0in Thailand each year holds the\u00a0World Durian Festival<\/i> in early May. This single province is responsible for half of the durian production of Thailand and a quarter of the world production.\u00a0The\u00a0Langsat Festival<\/i>\u00a0is held each year in\u00a0Uttaradit<\/a>\u00a0on weekends in September. The\u00a0langsat<\/i>\u00a0(Lansium parasiticum<\/a><\/i>), for which Uttaradit is famous, is a fruit that is similar in taste to the\u00a0longan<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\r\n

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From the\u00a0coconut<\/a>\u00a0comes\u00a0coconut milk<\/a>, used both in curries and desserts, and\u00a0coconut oil<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0juice of a green coconut<\/a>\u00a0can be served as a drink and the young flesh is eaten in either sweet or\u00a0savory<\/a>\u00a0dishes. The grated flesh of a mature coconut is used raw or toasted in sweets, salads and snacks such as\u00a0miang kham<\/a><\/i>.<\/sup>\u00a0Thais not only consume products derived from the nut (actually a\u00a0drupe<\/a>), but they also make use of the\u00a0growth bud of the palm tree<\/a> as a Thai vegetable<\/a>. From the stalk of the flowers comes a sap that can be used to make coconut vinegar<\/a>, alcoholic beverages, and sugar. Coconut milk and other coconut-derived ingredients feature heavily in the cuisines of central and southern Thailand. In contrast to these regions, coconut palms do not grow as well in northern and northeastern Thailand, where in wintertime the temperatures are lower and where there is a dry season that can last five to six months. In northern Thai cuisine, only a few dishes, most notably the noodle soup\u00a0khao soi<\/a><\/i>, use coconut milk. In the southern parts of northeastern Thailand, where the region borders\u00a0Cambodia<\/a>, one can again find dishes containing coconut. It is also here that the people eat non-glutinous rice, just as in central and southern Thailand, and not glutinous rice as they do in northern Thailand and in the rest of northeastern Thailand.<\/sup><\/p>\r\n