Thai food is the food that controls six balance fundamental flavors in every dish. The six fundamental flavors in Thai food are salty, sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, and oily

Salty – Salty in Thai food mostly used fish sauce. Fish sauce in one of important ingredient in Thai food. Moreover in every meal of Thai people. There is a small bowl of fish sauce included. Anyway Thai food use the other source for salty too such as salt or soy sauce.

Sweet – Mostly sweet in Thai food come from sugar. There are also many kinds of sugar in Thai food, such as brown sugar, coconut palm sugar, jaggery and palm sugar in the form of cakes.

Sour – In Thai food, Sour are from vinegar, lime juice. There are also the ingredient that are not in any foods like tamarind vinegar, sour orange juice and the sour flavor from tamarind leaf, and acacia leaf. All these sour flavors are in Thai food only.

Hot (spicy) – The spicy flavor in Thai food is very hot, mostly come from Capsicum frutescent.

Oily – Most curry Thai food used coconut cream for oily flavor. Oily in Thai foods also come from other vegetable oil or fat.

Bitter – Come from animal entrails and some leaf. Thai people believe that the bitter flavor food have the effect of medicine.