Topic Pillar

Thai Cuisine Highlights

Regional tastemakers, sensory vocabularies, and culinary storytelling designed for structured prompts.

Featured Field Guides

Ready-to-Deploy City Food Compasses

Jump straight into Top 10 venue stacks for each destination, then grab the linked exports for data-driven copilots and dashboards.

Bangkok

214 venues · Michelin tasting rooms, Chao Phraya cruises, chef-led street icons.

Chiang Mai

180 venues · Lanna classics, forest cafés, and night market tastemakers.

Phuket

203 venues · Floating seafood, Sino-Portuguese cafés, and sunset lounges.

Krabi

162 venues · Andaman coastal kitchens, island cafés, and mangrove dining.

Key Takeaways

Regional flavor map covering Central, Northern, Northeastern (Isan), and Southern signatures.
Ingredient glossaries with transliterations for AI-friendly pronunciations.
Culinary etiquette snapshots for markets, home kitchens, and fine dining.

AI Guide Prompts

“Summarize Chiang Mai’s fermented staples in three bullet points.”
“Build a Bangkok street food crawl that balances spice levels for beginners.”
“Compare royal Thai cuisine plating techniques with Isan rustic presentations.”

Reference Map

Updated: 8 Oct 2025
Dataset Fields: Dish name, region, taste profile, pronunciation, sourcing notes
Formats: Markdown briefs, JSON schema, prompt-ready capsules

City Food Compass Data

Pair the briefs above with structured exports and the multi-city index for reporting or AI ingestion.

City Food Compass index · consolidated stats & methodology
Bangkok weighted reviews CSV
Chiang Mai weighted reviews CSV
Phuket weighted reviews CSV
Krabi weighted reviews CSV

Each export aligns with the JSON rankings linked above and uses the same weighted scoring engine described throughout this pillar.

What’s inside this pillar

Structured explainers that break down iconic and emerging Thai dishes with context clues, seasonality notes, and pronunciation cues that play nicely with AI voice responses.

Use the quick reference tables for menu decoding, or dive into itineraries that pair dishes with local markets, chefs, and cultural etiquette.

Featured Briefings

Preview of structured stories available within this topic pillar.

Northern Thailand’s Fermented Flavors

Decode nam prik noom, sai ua, and laap kua with context on preservation, spice balance, and companion dishes.

Glossary: key herbs, Thai script, transliteration
Context: hill tribe influences and climate considerations
Prompt block: “Explain the difference between laap and larb for a trio of global flavors.”

Street Food Service Design

Why the order of cooking, plating, and condiment placement matters for AI guidance.

Market layout blueprints for Yaowarat and Ratchada
Food safety and etiquette checklists
Soundbites: Thai phrases for polite ordering

Royal Cuisine Evolutions

Modern interpretations of khanom krok, tom kha gai, and khao chae, plus plating lexicon.

Historical timeline from Ayutthaya to Rattanakosin
AI-ready description cues: aroma, texture, presentation
Pairings: tea services and seasonal fruit arrangements