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scrapers. The usually arid northeast beams an emerald hue during the rainy season when
tender green rice shoots carpet the landscape.
A Bountiful Table
Adored around the world, Thai cuisine expresses fundamental aspects of Thai culture: it is
generous, warm, refreshing and relaxed. Each Thai dish relies on fresh, local ingredients -
pungent lemongrass, searing chillies and plump seafood. A varied national menu is built
around the four fundamental flavours: spicy, sweet, salty and sour. Roving appetites go on
eating tours of Bangkok noodle shacks, seafood pavilions in Phuket and Burmese market
stalls in Mae Hong Son. Cooking classes reveal the simplicity behind the seemingly com-
plicated dishes, and mastering the market is an important survival skill.
