While we eat bread or cereals for breakfast Thai love to eat soups. You will not find any kind of bread in traditional Thai kitchens. Bread and cereals are only served in international hotels or in tourist areas.

Instead you will find noodles, rice and soup dishes for breakfast and as a healthy meal during the whole day. Everywhere you look you will find small street-kitchens that prepare tasty soups with all different kinds of ingredients. Usually one can choose what ingredients should be cooked.

Often soups are prepared with all kind of vegetables, eggs, beef, pork or chicken. And very often you can also find noudle soups. Fresh at street-kitchens or as instant noodle soups in supermarkets.

As bouillon you can find meat- oder fish-bouillons, but also coconut milk. The most famous soups of Thailand are tom yum gung and tom kha gai. Tom Yum ist a hot soup with a mixture of chilli, lemongras and fresh lemons. Tom Kha is bases on coconut milk, lemongras and chilli.

Soups are considered as a main dish and will be served together with the main dishes.