A sweet basil similar to the kind used in Italian pasta and various European tomato dishes. Used as a vegetable and for flavoring. Your standard long-stemmed, small onion, green and white and used in Thai food as a garnish for fried rice, salads and vegetables. Black, white and green peppercorn types. Black is milder and more aromatic than white.
Green peppercorns have a special taste all their own.
Used in flavoring. Dried flowerbuds of an evergreen tree, cloves are common to western dishes, but in Thai cooking are used only for the musaman curry paste. The leaves are also used with betelnut. A kind of sweet basil with a somewhat peppery taste. Used as a vegetable and flavoring.