Banana - Kluai
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Kluay Hom Fragrant Banana Fragrant bananas are a popular all-day snack. It goes well with breakfast cereals and is ideal for making banana fritters, cakes and ice-cream .	Kluay Khai The Egg Banana Has a thinner golden-yellow skin when ripe. It is eaten fresh or cooked in a light syrup. It is also popular as dried banana, candy, or cake	Kluay Nam Wa Sticky and sweet when ripe, Kluai Nam Wa is valued for its high nutritional value. It is often used in Thai desserts Kluai Buat Chee,  Khao Tom Mut or Khanom Kluai.
Hom Thong (Gros Michel) Similar to the Cavendish, but with a finer skin, and it is aromatic and sweet tasting.	Kluay Hak Mook A cooking banana that is delicious when roasted or grilled.	Leb Meu Nang A delicacy of the South. It acquired its name from its peculiar shape, resembling a lady’s manicured fingernails.

Bananas are available in Thailand all year round. Bananas are perhaps the most popular of all tropical fruits, and Thailand has about 20 different varieties, ranging from fragrant, sweet little "finger bananas" to large specimens with thick golden skins. The fruit is also among the most versatile and turns up at Thai meals in numerous forms besides fresh at the peak of ripeness. When young and green, they may be eaten raw as a vegetable with a spicy sauce; more developed, but still unripe, they are sliced, dried in the sun, and fried for a snack. Bananas are also grilled and soaked with syrup (Kluai ping), boiled in coconut milk with salt and sugar (Kluai Buat chi), boiled in syrup (Kluai chuam), smoked in the peel (Kluai phao), and turned into golden fritters (Kluai khaek). Thailand's bananas come in all shapes, sizes and colours: there are spherical, ping-pong ball-sized Kluai Khai tao (turtle's egg bananas); red-orange coloured naga bananas; recurved, delectably perfumed kluay lob mue naang (dancer's fingernail bananas), and many more exotics. But four or five familiar varieties are common to all fruit markets. The kluay hawm, or "fragrant banana" is the one familiar to shoppers in western supermarkets. Smaller, firmer, and sweeter are the dark-yellow kluay Khai, or "egg bananas". Protein-rich kluay nam waa are said to be a fail-proof sex-enhancer when steeped in honey, and kluay Hak Mook are at their best when split open and grilled to softness over a charcoal fire.

Banana blossoms known as "Hua Bplee" are used fresh as a garnish for the famous Pad Thai noodle dish, used in Thai salads or yam, or eaten raw as a salad vegetable served with chilli dips called nam prik.