Reddit reviews Thai Food

If you are serious about getting into thai cuisine, beyond the lime juice, fish sauce, shop bought curry paste get your head around David Thompson's book thai food. It is encyclopaedic, and makes no concessions re hard to get ingredients, but it is epic. The amazon reviews are pretty comprehensive.

This book is my go to for Thai recipes.

The key flavours you are looking for a tamarind water/paste and fish sauce. If you like Thai food I cannot recommend this book enough - the guy ended up living in Thailand researching recipes for the book and they are excellent. Also pink/faux-silky cookery book ftw. Outshines everything else!