Thailand Christmas Food

You will be amazed what Thailand Christmas food is like. For a Buddhist country, Thailand surprisingly has tons of Christmas food and other Christmas celebrations. Being a country that adopt every great cultures, Thailand Christmas food comprises of Christmas food found in other civilized countries including American Christmas food and British or English Christmas food. However, great Thailand Christmas food is only found in Bangkok. Other parts of Thailand have not adopted international cuisine enough to offer a wide range of Christmas food.

In Bangkok, for example, you will find many hotels with Christmas menus as you would in big cities in the United States. Turkey is very common in exquisite Thai restaurants on their Christmas menu. Also, while it is hard to find British or English Christmas food in the US, in Thailand, it is easy. Christmas pudding and mince pie, British favorite Christmas food, for example, are rare in most parts of the US but in Thailand, you will find Christmas pudding in local supermarkets just as you would in England. Christmas parties are also common.

Since Thai people love to celebrate, Thai people who have western connections or love western food such as Turkey will go out for Christmas dinner. However, most Thai people will wait to celebrate New Year's Eve and New Year Day with their biggest meal of the year.

Traditional Thailand' s Christmas Food

Since Thai people eat rice, noodles, and curry (among other heavy foods) everyday for every meal, it is not rare to find Thai spicy foods such as Pad Thai or Thai Red Curry on the menu for Christmas. Also, most local, small restaurants won't even have different Christmas food on the menu for Christmas as most Thai people don't like Western food as much as Thai food and for small restaurants that are not tailored for foreigners they won't sell the food well if they have tons of western foods on the menu.

Bear in mind that if a Thai person has not traveled abroad or spent some time abroad, it is unlikely that they will like eating western food. Thai people love Thai food (which is understandable - Thai food is delicious) and out of choice will always eat Thai food. The next popular type of food in Thailand is Italian food. American Steaks or Turkey are not Thailand 's favorite foods.

So, to sum up. If you go to a French restaurant in Thailand (mostly Bangkok), expect to find what you would on a Christmas menu in France. If you go to an American steak house in Bangkok, expect to find what you would on a Christmas menu in a revered steak house in the US there. If you go to a high class Thai restaurant, expect to find special Thai foods there on the Christmas menu. And, if you go to a normal restaurant tailored for local Thai people, don't expect any Christmas food on the menu - Christmas food won't sell well to local Thais.