Crispy Fish with Mango Salsa
Ultra exotic serpent fish with fruit and enticing raw vegetables and herbs

Red Chicken Curry
Homemade chilli paste in this unique variation on a traditional dish

Spicy Squid Salad
Great beach dish of fresh seafood with crisp salad served with sesame seeds.

Tom Yum Soup
Chicken, shrimp combined with tomatoes, mushrooms and onions makes a hearty meal to set you up for the day

The Golden Kingdom of Thailand is home to some of the most pungent and spicy fresh ingredients in the world. Regarded as the world's fourth most popular cuisine, Thailand is valued for its low fat content and health enhancing properties.

Merrilees Parker visits paddy fields and aircraft-hangar sized rice barges, shops in the floating markets of Bangkok and the night market in Chiang Mai and discovers beautiful fresh fruit and the notoriously smelly durian fruit.

She cooks steaming Pad Thai noodles and tangy fish sauce with a street food vendor, masters the intricate art of fruit sculpture and the delicacies of the Royal Thai Cuisine.

She then spends a night with a Thai family and prepare green curry, and are awoken early to make an offering to the monks at the local temple.

Roasted chilli paste, salty fish sauce and fresh herbs like lemongrass, kaffir lime and galangal form the basis for most Thai cooking >>>>

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Listings of foodie essential info on places to visit, where to stay, where to eat and markets to visit including the coconut monkeys of Chumphon, Khantoke dinners, Damnuen Saduak floating marketand Bangkok Seafood Market