Thai cuisine is already quite well known to Americans, thanks to the country's popularity as a tourist destination. The culinary traditions of Thailand have been influenced by Chinese, Indian, and even Japanese cuisine. The main dish in Thai cuisine is rice, mostly of the jasmine variety. It is rice served with meat, fish, seafood, and vegetables cooked in a wok. A particularity of the local cuisine is pasta, which is made by grinding various spices and herbs into a mushy state. Garlic, ginger, lemon grass, cilantro are characteristic of Thai cuisine. Here is a selection of Thai food restaurants in...