1. Tom Yum Goong (Spicy Shrimp Soup)
2. Som Tum (Spicy Green Papaya Salad)
3. Tom Kha Kai (Chicken in Coconut Soup)
4. Gaeng Daeng (Red Curry)
5. Pad Thai (Thai style Fried Noodles)
6. Khao Pad (Fried Rice) 
7. Pad Krapow Moo Saap (Fried Basil and Pork)

• Pad Thai (Stir-Fried Noodles) 
• Tom Yum Goong (Hot & Sour Shrimp Soup) 
• Kaeng Lueang (Yellow Curry) 
• Gaeng Daeng (Red Curry) 
• Gaeng Keow Wan Gai (Green Curry) 
• Khao Soi (Thai Coconut Curry Noodle Soup) 
• Khao Pad (Thai Fried Rice)

The best Thai food recommendation for new Thai food eaters is fat or thick noodles and curry. Choose a salad, some vegetable dishes and rice. If this is your first time eating Thai, get a simple Thai curry sauce, maybe yellow for starters and make sure there is a coconut base, whatever you choose.

These are: salty, sweet, spicy, sour, and creamy. For the dish to taste authentic, all five flavors need to be in a perfect balance. Cooking Thai food isn't easy, and if the flavors don't complement one another, something will taste off.

Means fried. There are however, countless Thai dishes with the word Pad in it. The main ingredient in Pad Thai is rice noodles which are stir-fried. So, if you were to roughly translate Pad Thai, you'd have to say the dish is stir-fried noodles Thai style.

Guay teow simply means noodle soup, it's possibly the most popular dish in Thailand. If you have a craving for it then you won't have to look very far as it's available any time of day, it's particularly good as a late-night snack, and can be found everywhere.

When eating out, or making a meal at home, a group of Thai diners would eat a variety of meat and/or fish dishes, plus vegetables, a noodle dish, and possibly soup. Everything is shared, except the soup each person might order, or each person gets a personal bowl to get a serving of the soup.