Leela, food blogger at SheSimmers, wonders what qualifies as "authentic Thai cuisine":
Does fusion mean applying a non-Thai technique to local ingredients? Does fusion mean using non-Thai ingredients in a Thai dish? If so, name one Thai dish that wasn’t "fusion" at one point in history. Keep in mind that until the Europeans brought over chili, tomato, and papaya, we never cooked with them. Red curry, therefore, was once — gasp — fusion; so were many dishes which we have come to regard as classic Thai dishes.
Food is not a static thing. It evolves much like language and everything else. Years ago, we didn’t cook with carrots, because we didn’t have carrots. Now that we have and want to use carrots in some dishes, we’re committing the crime of fusion?
The Dish 