norwegian

Hi folks, I was on my first trip to Thailand this october and had a magnificent time ! beside ladies, I sure enjoy eating good food, and as a quite experienced traveller I am familiar with a lot of flavours. On my first night I ordered a pig leg, looked wonderful at the neigbour table where two russians seemed to enjoy it. Sorry I almost fainted when tasting it, next day having a nice mackerel style fish for lunch I saw the chief prepearing the pig leg, into the boiling pan went, yes about 1 kilo of sugar. Altough I found a lot of really good thai food during my stay, I cannot understand why they add this sweet sauses on all barbecue yes even the curry dishes are most often heavily sweetened. Anyone here, knows if this is an attemt to make thai food more suitable for western tounges or is it really a part of the authentic thai cuisine ?