The popular Thai dish Phat Kaphrao has been declared the third best dish in the world by Taste Atlas, a renowned online food website.

 

The accolade highlights the dish’s unique blend of flavors and ingredients that have captivated food enthusiasts worldwide.

 

Phat Kaphrao is known for its flavorful combination of minced meat or seafood with holy basil, shallots, garlic, and chili peppers, has earned this prestigious ranking from Taste Atlas.

 

This traditional Thai stir-fry is a testament to Thai cuisine, which itself was ranked 17th globally in a recent survey by Taste Atlas. Thai cuisine’s position on the list places it just ahead of South Korean cuisine, and follows top-ranked cuisines from Italy, Japan, and Greece.

 

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Third best in the world? Ridiculous. I like kaphrao and make it all the time, but it's basically a cheap street food dish. It's popular but I certainly wouldn't call it one of the top dishes in the world.

That is an interesting list in the article.

Nothing from the UK or the USA in the top 50. (No surprise there.)

#1 Picanha is very tasty but in a different price range to # 2 and # 3.

Thai food, straight from CH ... 

I'd pick the double chicken salad at Polo Loco ahead of that.

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

Just another subjective " best / most beautiful " etc.

No actual proof .

2 hours ago, jaywalker2 said:

Third best in the world? Ridiculous. I like kaphrao and make it all the time, but it's basically a cheap street food dish. It's popular but I certainly wouldn't call it one of the top dishes in the world.

It’s a personal opinion. I would say cheese on toast yet this is also not on most menus. 🧀 

Being a tight arse i buy mine at a stall run by a lovely lady for 20 baht.Then i go home to cook my rice and fried egg.Roughly 30 baht in total for the tastiest dish in Thailand.

2 months ago i bought one from a Thai takeaway in England,£8-50,and it was crap.

52 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

What type of an animal is a Kaphrao?

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

So true nothing like a nice bit of vegan cheesecake

1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

How would that be different than killing & eating plants ?  Simply because they're not cute and furry, feathered or possibly more intelligent to plants.

 

Or maybe since you can't hear the frequency of their distress when killed, it's somehow more humane.

2 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

That is an interesting list in the article.

Nothing from the UK or the USA in the top 50. (No surprise there.)

#1 Picanha is very tasty but in a different price range to # 2 and # 3.

Why no surprise? Scottish beef "Aberdeen Angus" second (I would say best) in the world so a british steak dinner is no where! Then one of the nicest bits of beef I've had was American buffalo/bison while in Canada again no where to be seen. So many game foods readily available and nothing... mince and chilli wow......lol

8 minutes ago, BritScot said:

Why no surprise? Scottish beef "Aberdeen Angus" second (I would say best) in the world so a british steak dinner is no where! Then one of the nicest bits of beef I've had was American buffalo/bison while in Canada again no where to be seen. So many game foods readily available and nothing... mince and chilli wow......lol

 

I've had some beautiful farmed venison in New Zealand, and foie gras in France, with probably the best steak I've ever had being in a restaurant in St Petersburg, USA.

 

I do like Thai food, and occasionally cook it, and I do like the flavours and the taste of chili in it – – as for anything to do with British food, well maybe my taste buds were ruined by my mother's efforts, which were nothing short of awful/disastrous hence the reason I haven't eaten it in years.

 

As someone else has said, "it is all subjective" because people's palates are different and whereas some folks like spicy food, others don't and so on.......

4 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

As is endlessly mentioning it....

3 hours ago, Kinok Farang said:

What type of an animal is a Kaphrao?

Minced pork, or as the Thai say: Moo Saap.

Not to be confused with Mo....

IMO it’s difficult to generalize USA American food… there’s a melting pot of many different cultures.. Los Angeles for example neighborhoods like China Town, Thai, Vietnamese, S. Korea,Hispanic, Greek , Italian etc…. and McDonalds ( threw that in for laughs’

I wonder where they ate it.

 

I've had some lovely krapow but equally some awful versions.

 

I associate it with a meal I eat when I can't decide what else I want.

Tastes great but ask yourself, if you're at a buffet and have international food or Panang, Tom Yum, and other Thai food on offer and sitting there is kaprow...would you bother with it?

 

Decent grub but nowhere near top cuisine.

6 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

Says the vegan. I have a few friends who work at a large zoo protecting and breeding animals and jet they still eat meat.

Of course it is. What complete rubbish. Why do they keep pushing this absolute nonsense. Taste Atlas is obviously not the 1st, 2nd or 3rd authority on culinary delights. I wonder where turducken comes in on this list?

 

6 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Killing and eating animals is disgusting.

I agree. By the way vegetables have rights too!

11 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Of course it is. What complete rubbish. Why do they keep pushing this absolute nonsense. 

What? Who is pushing what here?

 

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I wonder where turducken comes in on this list?

Hopefully it is too bland to even make the list. Yuck.

5 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

What? Who is pushing what here?

 

Hopefully it is too bland to even make the list. Yuck.

Chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey and slow roasted. Yep! I'm sure thats bland. Of course it will be even blander when a pheasant in stuffed into the chicken and a quail is stuffed into the pheasant. Absolutely horrible I'm sure.

1 hour ago, Barnet1900 said:

I wonder where they ate it.

 

I've had some lovely krapow but equally some awful versions.

 

I associate it with a meal I eat when I can't decide what else I want.

Tastes great but ask yourself, if you're at a buffet and have international food or Panang, Tom Yum, and other Thai food on offer and sitting there is kaprow...would you bother with it?

 

Decent grub but nowhere near top cuisine.

I like it for breakfast when I have a hangover. Spicy but not too spicy with a runny fried egg. Pad Kaphrao Moo Sap Phet Nit Deow Kai Dow Mai Sook.

Top 4 dishes in the world. Aussie meat pie, Aussie pasty, Aussie sausage roll and the delicious Chiko Roll. Great food but nowhere near the best in the world as phad kaphrao is no where near the best.

 

Taste Atlas has a terrific website with interesting recipes from all over the World

I'd sooner eat a 7eleven sandwich.

Yes,  Phat Kaphrao is very nice, I eat it at least once a week.

But third best dish in the world.

What a load of BS.

 

 

13 hours ago, spinner343 said:

So true nothing like a nice bit of vegan cheesecake

 

That was very funny.  

 

 

Pat krapow with a friend egg certainly is a wonderful dish, but it's hard to rank food as it's simply a matter of personal taste.