Livonia Mi Thai Food at Tony Ba'lony's

Sept. 25, 2013 - PRLog -- To get the best Thai Food in Lovina check out Tony Balony's in Livonia Michigan.  Livonia Michigan Thai Food

The beauty of dining at a Thai restaurant in Lovinia is that you get a delicious meal that's time consuming to prepare served for your enjoyment, while you've got nothing to worry about but the flow of conversation. Ever try making Thai food at home? Hopefully, you've got nothing to do for few hours, since it takes a lot of time in the kitchen to get the spices and unique blend of flavors just right. While it's the spices that make eating at a Thai restaurant in Tempe such a delectable experience, there are some diet considerations you might want to keep in mind. Flavors this tasty take special considerations for certain palates.

While people who are new to Thai cuisine may find Thai fish sauce to be a bit "smelly" at first, if cooked and seasoned properly finished dish will have no "fishy" odor at all. It takes some getting used to, but Thai cuisine relies heavily on its use, so there is no avoiding it. Salt can help sometimes, but it just isn't the same. To avoid the "fishiness", most cooks use lime juice in generous amounts, as it negates the smell and helps to balance out salty food. As stated before, main concept of Thai food is balance of sweet, sour, spicy and salty.

Thai food is well-known all over the world, and millions of people enjoy its rich flavors every day. Basic concept of Thai cuisine is combination of four elements - sweet, sour, spicy and salty. The key to making a perfect Thai dish lies there, in perfect balance of all four tastes. It is not good when food is too salty, too sour or too sweet. If it's too spicy, it won't be a problem, as most Thai people like their food very spicy. When talking about sweet, sour and spicy, there are abundant ingredients that can help, from sugar, lemon or lime juice, chili and chili powder, peppers, black pepper and so on. But for salty, Thai cuisine uses mostly Thai fish sauce or "Nam Pla" in Thai.

Green curry paste
Yellow curry paste
Red curry paste
Mussamun curry paste
Chu chee curry paste
Panang curry paste
Khua Kling curry paste (Southern Thai food)
Khang Pa curry paste (Not popular in foreign country)
Khang Som curry paste (Not popular in foreign country)
As you can see from the list above, Thai food rely mostly on Thai sauce. When you mix and match sauces, they become totally different dishes.

Other typical ingredients are the several types of eggplant (makhuea) used in Thai cuisine, such as the pea-sized makhuea phuang and the egg-sized makhuea suai, often also eaten raw. Although broccoli is often used in Asian restaurants in the west in phat thai and rat na, it was never actually used in any traditional Thai food in Thailand and is still rarely seen in Thailand. Usually in Thailand, khana is used, for which broccoli is a substitute. Other vegetables which are often eaten in Thailand are thua fak yao (yardlong beans), thua ngok (bean sprouts), no mai (bamboo shoots), tomatoes, cucumbers, phak tam leung (Coccinia grandis), kha na (Chinese kale), phak kwangtung (choy sum), cha om (tender Acacia pennata leaves), sweet potatoes (used more as a vegetable), a few types of squash, phakatin (Leucaena leucocephala), sataw (Parkia speciosa), tua phu (Winged beans) and kapot corn.

Prik Naam Pla (fish sauce with sliced chili and lime juice) - a universal sauce that goes with almost every rice dishes. Some restaurants included it in the condiment. Prik Naam Som (chili & vinegar sauce) - condiment used to flavor noodles Naam Prik Pao (roasted chili paste) - condiment used in variety of dishes (soups, salads, stir fries). Some Thais use Nam Prik Pao as jam substitute to spread on toast. Aa-jaad (pickled cucumber Salad) - great dipping sauce for fried fish cakes, satay, and other fried appetizers Naam Jiem Saate (peanut sauce) - one of the most popular Thai sauces out side of Thailand. It tastes so good people do not only use it to dip Satay but use it as salad dressing, pizza sauce substitute, pad Thai sauce substitute, and much more. The American should call it "See Food" sauce, what ever food you see you dip in this sauce. Naam Jiem Talay (Seafood Sauce) - yes, you've guessed it. Naam Jiem Talay is a dipping sauce for all your seafood need. Move over melted butter! Get ready for a fiesta in your mouth. This bad boy is full of flavor and once you take a bite, the intense combination of spicy, sour, salty and sweet will knock your socks off (if made right). Naam Jiem Buoi (plum sauce) - popular among kid and people who cannot handle spicy food. Nam Jiem Buoi is great for any fried dishes. Jig Choe (vinaigrette soy sauce) - use for making hot and sour soup and dipping sauce for pot sticker and Dim Sum. Naam Jiem Gai (chicken dipping sauce) - sweet and spicy sauce. Great with BBQ chicken Naam Jiem Seir Rong Hai (crying tiger sauce) - Crying Tiger is one of the more popular dishes in the US. Seared medium rare beef served with dipping sauce, consists of fish sauce, ground roasted rice, chili pepper, soy sauce, and lime juice. Cooking Sauce Nam Pla (fish sauce) - for adding salty flavor. Use in soups, stir fry, and making sauces. You will find fish sauce in dishes like Tom Yum (hot and sour soup), Tom Kah (coconut soup), and pad krapow (stir fry holy basil). Nam Som Sai Choo (vinegar) - for adding sour flavor. Use in soups, sweet and sour stir fry. Pad Thai Sauce - use for cooking pad Thai. Pad Thai recipe will be given in our later article. Phu Khao Tong (Green lid soy sauce) - flavored soy sauce. one of the important sauce which included in many Thai stir fry sauce recipe See iew Dum (Sweet black soy sauce) - for making Pad See iew (Sweet sir fried noodle with chinese broccoli and meat). Ingredient in Khao Mun Khai (Broiled chicken meat over flavored rice) dipping sauce See iew khao (light soy sauce) - important sauce in many dipping sauce. Tammarin Juice - important ingredient in pad thai sauce. Included in some dipping sauce and Thai Khang Som soup (Sour soup with tammarin based) Oyster sauce - ingredient in many Thai stir fry sauce recipe including sweet and sour stir fry. Curry paste - All curry pastes have similar herbs and spices but different proportion. Thai Curry recipe will be given in our later article.

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