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It is also a profoundly social cuisine — dishes land in the middle of the table and everyone spoons them over their own rice, so a meal is composed like a chord: one curry, one soup, one stir-fry, something crisp. And what the world knows as Thai food is mostly Bangkok's version; the north, the northeast and the south each cook noticeably differently.","The backbone of the cuisine is fermented seafood: fish sauce (nam pla) for salt and depth in nearly everything, and shrimp paste (kapi) pounded into curry pastes and relishes. Thai cooks salt with fish sauce the way European cooks salt with salt, and its funk disappears into a finished dish, leaving only savoriness behind. The second pillar is the mortar and pestle — the krok. Curry pastes, the nam prik chile relishes at the center of traditional meals, and the dressing for som tam are all pounded, because pounding ruptures lemongrass, galangal, chiles and garlic in a way no blender blade quite matches.\n\nRice divides the country. The center and south eat fragrant jasmine rice, steamed and spooned under curries and stir-fries; the north and the northeast (Isaan) eat glutinous sticky rice, rolled into balls by hand and used to pinch up grilled meats and pungent salads. Noodles — rice noodles above all — arrived with Chinese migrants along with the wok, and noodle dishes remain a one-plate, chopsticks-and-street-stall category distinct from the shared rice meal.\n\nTechnique-wise, two moves define the repertoire. For curries, coconut cream is simmered until its oil separates or \"cracks\", the paste is fried in that oil until fragrant, and only then does coconut milk loosen it into a sauce — skip the frying and the curry tastes flat and raw. For stir-fries, a wok over ferocious heat delivers the faint smokiness Thais call the \"breath of the wok\", inherited from Chinese kitchens and made Thai with fish sauce, chiles and holy basil.\n\nSeasoning is never considered finished when the dish leaves the kitchen. Noodle shops set out a four-jar caddy — fish sauce, sugar, dried chile, chiles in vinegar — and adjusting your own bowl is expected, not insulting. Street food is not a snack tier but the daily engine of Thai eating; many Bangkok households barely cook, because the stall downstairs does one dish and has done it for thirty years. Regional kitchens pull in their own directions: Isaan toward fermented fish, lime and raw heat; the north toward milder, pork-rich curries without coconut; the south toward turmeric, intense chile heat and the Malay-influenced flavors of the peninsula.",[13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21],"fish sauce","lemongrass","galangal","makrut lime leaves","bird's eye chiles","coconut milk","jasmine rice","thai basil","palm sugar","Thais eat with a spoon and fork — the spoon in the right hand does the eating, the fork only pushes food onto it — and knives never appear at the table because everything arrives cut. Chopsticks are reserved for noodle dishes, mostly at Chinese-style shops. A proper meal is shared: several contrasting dishes in the center, each person with their own plate of rice, taking a spoonful or two at a time rather than loading the plate. Seasoning your own food from the table caddy is normal and expected. Sticky-rice regions eat by hand, pressing a small ball of rice into a scoop for grilled chicken or som tam.",[24,25,26],"pad-thai","thai-green-curry","tom-yum-soup",[28,31,34,37],{"name":29,"description":30},"Central Thailand & Bangkok","The royal-court and river-delta kitchen the world knows best: coconut-milk curries, refined balance of sweet and salty, jasmine rice, and Bangkok's street-food scene — the proving ground where pad thai and tom yum became national dishes.",{"name":32,"description":33},"Isaan (Northeast)","Sticky rice country on the Lao border: grilled meats (gai yang, moo ping), som tam pounded to order, larb, and a bold palate of lime, fish sauce, fermented fish and serious chile heat — Thailand's most influential regional kitchen.",{"name":35,"description":36},"The North (Chiang Mai)","Cooler highlands with Burmese and Yunnanese threads: khao soi's curried noodles, pork-forward curries made without coconut milk, herbal sausages and sticky rice — gentler heat, deeper 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