Thai Curry Restaurant in Montréal

Color Coded Curry

Curries are an important part of Thai cuisine and refer to both the dish as well as the curry paste used to make the dish. There are three main types of Thai curries—green, red, and yellow—which are categorized by the color of the curry paste. The color of the chilies and other ingredients gives each curry its distinct hue.

Green curry was made with green chillies, while red curry was made with with several red chilies for a fiery hot dish and yellow curry was made with yellow chilies. In Thailand, these chilies have slightly different taste characteristics in addition to their color.

​​​​Green curry originates from Central Thailand. It is a Thai curry made of coconut milk and fresh green chillies, which gives it a super creamy texture and its mild green colour.

​​​​Over time, however, other ingredients have been added to the curry pastes to enhance each recipe, making them more distinct from one another. Although all three colors may be spicy-hot to some people, normally green is the mildest and red the hottest with yellow falling somewhere in between.