Ingredients

Galangal

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Food and Drink Atlas. "Galangal." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://food.interactiveatlas.org/ingredients/galangal.

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Food and Drink Atlas. (n.d.). Galangal. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://food.interactiveatlas.org/ingredients/galangal

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@misc{foodanddrinkatlas-galangal,
  author = {Food and Drink Atlas},
  title = {Galangal},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://food.interactiveatlas.org/ingredients/galangal},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A rhizome related to ginger, sharper and more peppery in flavor, used in Thai and other Southeast Asian cooking, notably in tom yum soup.

Facts

Origin Regionthe subject's own account

Indonesia, where the plant's culinary and medicinal uses originate; the wider genus is native to South and Southeast Asia. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Used By

Tom Yum

Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidson

Sources

1. Galangal (Wikipedia)

WikipediaIntroduction

Quote, Introduction

with culinary and medicinal uses originating in Indonesia

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The Oxford Companion to Food

Alan Davidson, Oxford University Press, 2014

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