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Five Thai Dishes You Just Have to try in Ko Samui Restaurants

Thai cuisine is famous throughout the world amongst gourmet food aficionados, and there's no better place to sample this delicious taste than at Ko Samui restaurants.
Appreciated for its rich diversity of ingredients, intricate flavors, complex spiciness and powerful aromas, it's not hard to understand why Thai cuisine is so popular throughout the world. Many Thai dishes are also extremely healthy, containing blends of herbs that are said to offer healthy benefits that you just can't find with other national cuisines.
There's such an incredible range of delicious Thai dishes that it's impossible to do justice to them all, and so instead we've narrowed it down to our five favorite dishes that you just have to check out when you stop for lunch in Ko Samui restaurants.
Pad Thai
If there's one dish that you've already heard of before you step into Ko Samui restaurants, it's Pad Thai, one of Thailand's most prestigious dishes and also one of its most authentic. A perfect balance of the Thai cuisine's five fundamental flavors, this stir-fry noodle dish has earned its popularity to its incredible versatility it can be served with so many different seasonings that there's a combination to suit everyone's tastes. Add spices, fish sauce, tamarind, lemon juice and sugar to taste, sit back and enjoy an authentic taste of Thailand.
Gai Pad Met Ma Muang
Next on our list is a second wonderful stir-fry chicken and cashew nuts. By no means hot or spicy, gai pat met ma muang is a deliciously tasty Thai treat for anyone in Ko Samui restaurants who want to enjoy something authentic yet find some of the more traditional Thai dishes too hot to handle. Slightly salty and slightly sweet, this tasty dish of crunchy cashew nuts is perfect for satisfying hungry kids of beginners to Thai food.
Kang Keaw Wan Gai
Known to most westerners simply as Green Chicken Curry, is a deliciously sweet tasting curry with just a slight touch of spice perfect for those who aren't yet accustomed to Thailand's array of red hot spices. This dish has just the right blend of spiciness, sweetness and saltiness, made as it is from green curry paste, sugar, coconut milk and fish sauce. Add in those deliciously tender chunks of chicken, server with a bowl of steamed rice and enjoy
Som Tam
You won't find this in all of the Ko Samui restaurants you step into, as Som Tam (papaya salad) is actually an Isan specialty, from the northeast of Thailand. Yet it is also one of the most popular dishes for Thai people, throughout the country. It's also one of the spiciest of all Thai dishes, made from a fresh mix of shredded vegetables, including the main ingredient, papaya, as well as yardlong beans, tomatoes, and of course a big helping of fresh red chilies. The ingredients are pounded together with a pestle and mortar before being served up with noodles or sticky rice.
Tom Yam Koong
Number on one on our list and sure to be available at all Ko Samui restaurants is the unbeatable Tom Yam Koong, a spicy shrimp soup that is quite deservedly Thailand's national dish and the representative of Thai gourmet food. Truly unique thanks to its fierce spicy taste, its sourness and its awesome fragrance which comes from a mixture of healthy herbs including lemon grass, galangal, shallot, kaffir lime leaves, tamarind and of course, chilies. Tom Yam actually comes in two styles thick and clear, with the thick variety being made by adding a good helping of coconut milk into the mix. Tom Yam can be highly versatile too it's not just shrimp which is used, as chicken, fish, prawns and other seafoods can also be added. Truly one of the signature dishes of all Ko Samui restaurants.