Like many Asian meals, a typical Thai dinner consists of rice, plus an assortment of dishes. These would include soup, a steamed or grilled dish, a fried dish and a salad. These would be flavoured by various sauces and curries. As in most Asian dining, dishes are place don the table and shared by all. Soups are usually served separately or spooned onto your plate and eaten with rice.
Thai soups are normally light in texture, but strong in taste.
The flavour comes from the combination and use of flavours using lemon grass, lemon juice, coconut milk and chilli. Main courses generally use some combination of chilli or curry flavouring. Thai curries come in white, red, green, yellow and orange varieties, reflecting the herbs from which they are made. Seafoods include Salads are usually mixed with meat or seafood, and most are garnished with chilli. This mixture is then garnished with a splash of fish sauce to add a piquant touch.