Dishes from the North
Some popular Northern Thai dishes, including (left to right, top to bottom) nam phrik ong (a mild, ground pork-based pepper sauce dip eaten with raw vegetables), jaew bong plaa raa (a spicy mixture based on fermented fish, gaeng hanglay (a pork curry of Burmese origin), gaeng naw mai (a bamboo shoot curry), yam gai (a sour-spicy chicken dish), and laab muu (a spiced mixed pork mixture flavored with herbs and eaten with sticky rice).
