The Thai cabinet today endorsed the Culture Ministry’s proposal to nominate Thailand’s most popular dish, tom yum gung, for inclusion on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list.

 

Government deputy spokesperson, Ms. Traisulee Traisoranakul, said that the tom yum kung dish reflects the simplicity of the way of life in Thai farming communities, living along rivers and canals in central Thailand, who have their own culinary culture related to nature.

 

The dish is prepared by putting fresh shrimp, which are abundant in Thailand’s waterways, into boiling water containing a mixture of herbs, such as fragrant lemon grass, fresh galangal root and kaffir lime leaves, which are typically grown in the back garden.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thailand-to-nominate-tom-yum-kung-for-unesco-intangible-cultural-heritage-list/

 

 

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What could be  nicer than boiling a  creature  alive

14 minutes ago, gunderhill said:

What could be  nicer than boiling a  creature  alive

They should apply for bum bum to be on unesco'd list as well.

Som Tam next; it can be used as birth control - I've passed up many a girl who'd eaten this dish within the last 48 hours.

<deleted>, what a joke. It's just a soup.

Scraping the barrel?????

It will never beat the UK UNESCO listing for Beans on Toast....????