Thai dishes are known for their complex taste profiles that combine sweet, sour, salty, and spicy elements in perfect proportions. Each dish is a symphony of flavors that dance on your palate, creating an explosion of taste sensations.

Thai cuisine is renowned for its incredible balance of flavors, combining the perfect blend of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and spicy tastes. At Thai Luang Restaurant in Herndon, we're excited to take you on a culinary journey through the five essential flavors that make Thai food so extraordinary.

Today, the harmonious combination of the five flavors - sweet, sour, salty, bitter and spicy - is the basis of Thai cuisine. If you have been to a Thai restaurant once or twice, it does not give you a reason to believe that you are familiar with the local cuisine.

A typical Thai meal includes five main flavors: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and spicy. Indeed, most Thai dishes are not considered satisfying unless they combine all five.