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THAILAND FOOD
by Hoàng Huy
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Thai Yin combines five basic tastes: sweet, spicy, sour, bitter, and salty. Ingredients commonly used in Thai cuisine include garlic, chili, lime juice, lemongrass, coriander, galangal, palm sugar, and fish sauce (nam pla). The staple food in Thailand is rice, rice varieties especially eight rice (also known as “hom Mali”) rice is used in most meals. Thailand has been the world’s largest rice exporter for many years. More than 5,000 rice varieties from Thailand are preserved in the rice gene bank of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), based in the Philippines. The King of Thailand is the official patron of IRRI.
Gai Pad Grapow, stir fry of chicken with basil and chilli, is a pretty classic Thai dish. Ghin Khao’s version was full of sweet soy, crisp vegetables and lean strips of chicken breast. I think it could have done with more basil and definitely more chilli! The addition of a fried egg with a soft gooey yolk was definitely a plus! Ghin Khao Swanston (03)
THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL (THAI: IS THE NATIONAL AIRLINE OF THAILAND, WITH MAIN OPERATIONS AT BANGKOK’S SUVARNABHUMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AND A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE STAR ALLIANCE.
THAI AIRWAYS’ LOSSES IN 2020 INCLUDE ONE-TIME PAYMENTS OF UP TO 90 BILLION BAHT FOR LAYOFFS AND LOSSES TO AIRCRAFT, RIGHT-OF-USE ASSETS AND AIRCRAFT SPARE PARTS. THE GROWING LOSSES DROVE THAI AIRWAYS’ EQUITY TO MINUS 127 BILLION BAHT AT THE END OF LAST YEAR.
THE AIRLINE IS LOSING MONEY MAINLY DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE PANDEMIC, WHICH HAS CAUSED MOST SERVICES TO BE HALTED. THE AIRLINE WILL SUBMIT ITS DEBT RESTRUCTURING PLAN TO A BANGKOK BANKRUPTCY COURT ON MARCH 2, 2021. IN THE PAST TIME, THAI AIRWAYS HAS SOLD A NUMBER OF UNITS, LAID OFF EMPLOYEES AND OPENED A NUMBER OF NEW CHANNELS TO SEEK REVENUE. THESE ARE ALL EFFORTS TO GENERATE MORE REVENUE AS WELL AS PARTIALLY OFFSET THE UNPRECEDENTED IMPACT CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC THAT HAS BROUGHT THE GLOBAL TOURISM INDUSTRY TO A HALT. ACCORDING TO DATA. THE DATA IS COMPILED BY THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF THAILAND (SET). REVENUE
THAI AIRWAYS’ LOSSES IN 2020 INCLUDE ONE-TIME PAYMENTS OF UP TO 90 BILLION BAHT FOR LAYOFFS AND LOSSES TO AIRCRAFT, RIGHT-OF-USE ASSETS AND AIRCRAFT SPARE PARTS. THE GROWING LOSSES DROVE THAI AIR OF LAST YEAR.
