Food and drink เห็ด hèt
mushroom noun
- hèt low
- Low: flat and lower than your normal voice, dropping a little at the end.
How to use it
Straw mushrooms, เห็ดฟางhèt-faang, float in tom yum; oyster mushrooms are fried or grilled, and enoki, เห็ดเข็มทองhèt-kěm-tawng, "golden needle mushrooms", go into hot pot. In the rainy season villagers gather wild mushrooms, and every year some people fall ill from poisonous ones, so eat only what you buy from a trusted seller.
เห็ดhèt is one short syllable with a low tone.
Other spellings you'll see
There's no single official way to write Thai in English letters. We mark the tone of every syllable; online you'll also find:
- hed
- hett
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