BANGKOK: There has been hype around a creamy noodle soup dish through northern Thailand known as “khao soi”.
Final month, it was rated as the best soup in the world on TasteAtlas – an internet travel guide focusing on food and featuring evaluations as well as recommendations through culinary professionals and critics around the world.
Besides grading the world’s best soups, the portal provides previously ranked top 100 best meals worldwide, best desserts and best sea food dishes among others. The particular rankings are based on rankings by the site’s customers.
With a score of 4. nine out of 5, the mildly spicy dish from Thailand defeat Cullen skink, that is a Scottish smoked haddock soup, as well as the Japan ramen in a soup ranking featuring a hundred of its kind.
The result of the rankings was shared by the Tourism Authority associated with Thailand via social networking.
Although the origin of khao soi in Thailand is certainly unclear, it is considered that the dish originated in the north of the country under the influence of Chinese Muslims who migrated from Yunnan within southwestern China via Myanmar and Laos.
It also has close similarities to a classic dish within neighbouring Myanmar known as “ohn no khao swè”, which comprises noodles, chicken and coconut curry soups.
In Thailand, khao soi is really a local specialty of Chiang Mai. This usually comprises ovum noodles and braised beef or poultry in spiced coconut soup, topped with crispy noodles, new spring onion plus coriander.