Isan (Thailand Tohoku Region) has influence of neighboring Laos and Vietnamese cuisine, there is a unique food culture.
Because there were many people from Isan who work in Bangkok, the taste of the local people of migrant workers such as "Somtum", "Gaillan" and "Rapep" has now become established in Bangkok and it is a representative restaurant in Thailand.
The main staple of Isan cuisine is steamed rice (caronioa) with dried chilli, chili powder, spicy blue pepper 'Purkinneu', many pungent dishes, it is also characterized not to use sweet coconut milk too much.
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Somtum (blue papaya salad)
It is a representative dish of Isan (Tohoku region in Thailand), but it is popular enough to eat anywhere in the country.
Blue papaya, tomatoes, cowpeas and peanuts are knocked down with a mortar and sweet, sour, spicy, seasoned with sugar, peppers, Nampula, lime and so on.
Local people eat with glutinous rice (caroniao) and somen (kanomu teen).
Speaking of "Somtham Thai", it is finished in a sweet one. Speaking of "Somtam Rao", Laotian style somtum makes it a spicy taste with hot peppers or blue peppers in a dish so that the dish is dyed red.
There is no sweetness, the position where the head of the head becomes numb, with spicy seasoning, listening to Lao's style, if you order without knowing it will be tough, so be careful.
In addition, even if saying "Please do not hard" standards of spicy are different depending on the person making it, so if you are not good at it, please order it concretely like "pepper 1 book".
There are various kinds of somtum.
Somtum Poohmar (Somtum with moving crab) has sweetness and no habit, so it is easy to eat.
There is also fruit somtum with fruits such as apple and grapes such as Somtum · Pommelamai (fruit somtum), it is sweet and slightly hot and seasoned, not as a side dish, it is popular as a snack.
Gaillan (Thai style yakitori)
Grilled chicken in sauce charcoal grilled chicken.
Crisp crust and juicy meat will irresistibly appetite, if you add a fragrant sauce containing dried chilli etc, its taste will deepen further.
There are many shops depending on the shop, different sweet sweet sauce sauce and soy sauce based hot sauce containing spicy sauce that contains dried peppers, many shops can give you different kinds and you can enjoy different taste alternately.
Because Gaian is compatible with glutinous rice (Kao Noya), when ordering, let's not forget it as well.
Commeyan (pork throat meat grilled)
Baked with sweet thigh meat of swine.
The throat meat of moderately fatty pig is sweet and seasoned and it has a crisp crunch.
When you eat it with a spicy sauce containing chili and lime, you can eat it with a sour spicy sauce, it improves its taste, it is very tasty and it also goes well as a liquor's knob.
There is also a dish called "Somtum · Komuyan" that puts a combuea in the somtum.
It is the ultimate dish that the juicyness of pig and sour taste of somtum combine and enjoy 1 kind of taste to 2 degree.
Lapse (with herbs of meat)
In a bite-sized pork, beef, or ground beef, herbs such as lime, Nampura, mint, Pakuchi, onions, red peppers, Laos with fine grains of roasted rice, Thai dishes.
Raep is a typical dish of Laos, and it has been handed down as a general home cooking in Isan (Northeastern Thailand) which was strongly influenced by Laos cuisine, and there is a recipe for each family.
The refreshing sourness of lime is a rarp with a unique herb scent and brewed rice which roasted rice, well balanced with meat and rice is a seasoning.
There are rapes of pork, beef, chicken, ducks, etc. There are also "Laptop Todo" fried rapes like a meatball, which is also recommended.
Crispy fishy meatballs crispy, it smells herbs and mixes various tastes in the mouth is a great dish.
Poppia · Sot (Thai French spring roll)
Raw spring rolls born in Vietnam are commonly eaten all over Southeast Asia, but this is a dish that is familiar to Isan (Northeastern Thailand).
Raw spring roll of Thailand puts plenty of vegetables such as shrimp, cucumber, lettuce, leek, pakuti and rice paper on rice paper, and makes spring rolls and puts crushed peanuts and sweet chili sauce.
Peppers' spring peel skin and the deliciousness of the shrimp of the pre-cream that entered inside gives exquisite taste, and peanuts and sweet chili sauce produce a tasteful taste.
Finally
How was it?
Cooking which is popularized in Bangkok, such as "Som Tum" and "Gayan" which are popular among foreigners, was not originally from Bangkok but actually it came from Isan (Northeastern Thailand).
In earlier Bangkok, I did not eat much hot food and there were many Chinese-style seasoned dishes, but the local cuisine of those who come to work in Bangkok has settled, a new repertory is added to the land of Bangkok, Furthermore, the popularity of Thai cuisine is on fire.
If you adjust the hotness, Isan cuisine is easy to eat, and herbs and vegetables are also abundantly used, so it is only good ingredients for your body, so please try it.
