[Red Basil NJ | Thai Cuisine | New Jersey | Red Basil Thai Cuisine Specialities Thai cuisine, so delicious and varied in its tastes, is a true gastronomic art. It presents an enormous range of dishes and a subtle blend of flavors. Creativity in cooking stems partly from the Thais' love of good food, and partly from the wealth of ingredients available.Thai food is not always hot and spicy, as many believed. The perfect combination of ingredients offers an astonishing array of delights. In the United States, where thousand of Thai restaurants are operated all across the nation, in such major cities as Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Boston. One of the main reasons that it's getting more and more popularity beside its great taste is that Thai food is also considered one of the healthiest and most nutritious around. For example Yum Ped(Duck Salad) and Tom Yum KOONG (Spicy shrimp soup) which are very low in fat and crab compare to those of western style which loaded of cream. And because of it's popularity there are many so call Thai restaurants which are not, operated by people with no knowledge of Thai cooking and their foods are far from real Thais.]