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Cooking Terms & Spices

Thai cooking vocabulary: methods such as fry, deep fry, boil, grill, steam, chop and stir, plus taste words like spicy, sour, salty and bitter.

Vocabulary preview

  • ทำอาหาร tham-aa-haan — To cook
  • ผัด phat — To fry / stir-fry
  • ทอด thot — To deep fry
  • ต้ม dtom — To boil
  • ย่าง yaang — To grill / roast
  • นึ่ง neung — To steam
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