Gluten free diet in a Thai restaurant or in Thailand is easier than you think.\u00a0 We’ll look at what you can eat and what to avoid to eat Thai and be gluten-free.<\/p>\n
There are some pitfalls to eating Thai food, as there are with eating almost any national cuisine on a gluten free diet.\u00a0 Compared to other types of food, the pitfalls in Thai food are easier to recognize and avoid.\u00a0 This is especially helpful when traveling in Thailand due to the language and cultural barriers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Thai cooking depends on rice rather than wheat.\u00a0 If the chef decides to thicken a sauce, they are more likely to use tapioca, corn or potato starch than wheat flour.\u00a0 On the other hand, don’t count on this outside of Asia.<\/p>\n
Soy sauce, which contains wheat, is used in Thai cooking, but is not used in too many dishes.\u00a0 However, you must watch out for it.<\/p>\n
Fish sauce is much more commonly used in Thai cooking than soy sauce.<\/p>\n
The main challenge in following a gluten free diet in a Thai restaurant outside of Asia is that the chefs may pick up bad, wheat-centric habits by living in a Western country.\u00a0 They may also not have access to the same brands and ingredients they are used to in Asia.<\/p>\n
Fish sauce bought in Western countries may not be wheat-free, and could therefor not be gluten-free.\u00a0 Ask to see the ingredients for fish sauce.<\/p>\n
Rice is the cheap filler of Asia, so you are much less likely to find wheat in unlikely places, compared to Western countries.<\/p>\n
The most common source of wheat in Thailand is yellow noodles.\u00a0 You may come across other obvious wheat-based food, but it is not too common.<\/p>\n
Fish sauce is used extensively in Thai cooking.\u00a0 Thai brands are unlikely to use wheat as this is not part of the transitional recipe.<\/p>\n
There is a high Chinese population in Thailand, but they don not look or act very much different to Thais, at least not to Westerners who probably miss out on subtle tell-tale signs.\u00a0 You may find yourself in what you assume to be a Thai eating establishment, but which turns out to be Chinese instead.\u00a0 Chinese cooking does use a lot of rice, but they also use soy sauce much more than Thais do, so watch out for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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