A FOOD TRADITION
Southern Thai Cuisine
Southern Thai cooking features intense spice, turmeric, seafood, coconut, sour curries, and distinctive fermented seafood flavors.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Khanom Jeen Nam Ya Pak Tai
A southern Thai dish of fermented rice noodles topped with a turmeric-scented fish and coconut curry and served with fresh vegetables.
Khanom La
A southern Thai sweet made by drizzling a rice-flour batter into fine crisp strands and coating them with sugar.
Khanom Phum
A southern Thai steamed sweet made from rice flour and coconut milk with a soft, lightly sweetened texture.
Khao Mok Gai
A Thai Muslim-style spiced rice dish in which chicken and fragrant long-grain rice are cooked together with turmeric, warm spices, and coconut milk.
Khao Mok Nuea
A Thai Muslim-style spiced rice dish made by cooking beef with fragrant long-grain rice, turmeric, warm spices, and coconut milk.
Khao Mok Pla
A Thai-style spiced rice dish in which seasoned fish is cooked with aromatic rice, coconut milk, and warm spices.
Khao Yam
A southern Thai rice salad combining seasoned rice with shredded vegetables, herbs, toasted coconut, and a savory budu-style dressing.
Khua Kling
A dry, intensely spicy Southern Thai stir-fried curry of minced meat coated in aromatic curry paste and kaffir lime leaf.
Kua Kling Moo
A dry southern Thai pork curry stir-fried with an intensely aromatic curry paste until the meat is coated and nearly dry.
Kung Siap
Kung Siap is a Southern Thai preparation of shrimp grilled or dried on skewers until firm and savory, commonly served as a snack or with a dipping relish.
Moo Hong
A Phuket-style braised pork dish in a sweet-savory sauce flavored with garlic, pepper, coriander root, and warm spices.
Moo Khua Kluk Kapi
A Southern Thai dry-fried pork dish seasoned with shrimp paste, aromatics, and chilli until richly savory and fragrant.
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