Its roots are picked for adding to foods and for making drinks. Young ginger is used as a condiment with fowl and beef dishes and in Tom Yom . A sweet basil different from horapa in that the aroma and flavor is released only in cooking. Used in hot and spicy fried dishes. This plant looks like coarse grass.
White turmeric is used as a raw vegetable and resembles ginger.
A knobby dark green fruit the size of a large lime. The juice and peel are used in curry paste and cooking as flavoring. Similar to lemon, lemon peel and lemon verbena. The common lime is native to China and Southeast Asia. The lime juice is used in Thai food, mainly for soup and desserts.