Food and drink เกลือ gluea
salt noun
- gluea mid
- Mid: level, in your normal speaking voice.
How to use it
Thai cooks get most of their saltiness from fish sauce rather than from salt itself, so there's rarely a salt shaker on the table. Salt's big moment is พริกเกลือprík gluea, a dip of salt, sugar and crushed chilli for sour fruit like green mango, pineapple and guava.
Salty is เค็มkem.
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:
- kluea
- glua
- klua
- gleua
More food and drink in Thai
All food and drink- ข้าว kâao Rice
- ข้าวเหนียว kâao-nǐaw Sticky rice
- ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง kâao-nǐaw má-mûang Mango sticky rice
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