The sour, spicy and hot prawn soup was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on Wednesday (Dec 4), highlighting its cultural significance.
The sour, spicy and hot prawn soup was added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on Wednesday , highlighting its cultural significance.The next time you’re slurping up a steaming hot, sour and spicy bowl of tom yum kung, or tom yum prawn soup, know that you’re not just having a delicious meal, you’re also enjoying a dish that’s just been recognised as Thailand ’s intangible cultural heritage, highlighting its cultural significance.
This year’s list also included, among others, the making of jang, a food made of fermented soybean, from South Korea, and practices related to henna, which was nominated by a few countries. Four other Thai cultural heritages have been listed on UNESCO’s Representative List: The Khon mask dance, Nora dance, Thai massage and the Songkran festival.
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