Its a well-known fact among food blog consumers that if you want to learn how to make simple Asian, primarily Chinese, dishes, Rasa Malaysia is a go-to place. Back in 2006 when there werent as many f...
One of the most commonly seen street food items in Bangkok is these chive cakes. As opposed to their (almost always) round, filled cousins that are sold in both steamed and steamed-then-pan-fried for...
Fragrant coconut rice, spicy carrot salad, and this saucy baked pork form one of my favorite meal ensembles. The idea of making three different dishes in order to create this one coordinated meal may...
The fact that I’ve been happily making this beef curry noodle dish the same way for years would lead one to think that it would have been one of the first recipes to be published here. I’m sorry I’d ...
After having lent its irreplaceable fragrance to many pots of Kaeng Liang, last years crop of lemon basil (maeng lak) left me with these. If I was in a more philosophical mood, I would have written s...
While Pad Thai or Tom Kha Gai, in my opinion, deserve a somewhat extensive tutorial, there really isnt much to say about Pad Ka-Prao (official transliteration: phat kaphrao). Its a dish that doesnt r...
Pad Thai made with green papaya strands in lieu of rice noodles has been around for a while; I have just recently come to appreciate it. For me, the turn around point was when I ceased seeing green p...
Last week, in the course of interviewing my friend M, who devised this fried rice recipe, I came to realize that, based on the way he was answering my questions, I probably wouldn’t be able to get an...
The following is the list of my favorite food items of 2011 -- from A to Z. There are a few giveaways at the end of the post. Thank you for hanging out here with me this past year. Happy New Year, ev...
What did you do in the last few hours? Me? I woke up and found myself on a bed which happened to be the very same one into which I crawled last night. At one point, I felt a slight itch on my back. S...
The dish as served at Ganda “Let’s just get right to it,” writes James Oseland. “Ganda, a restaurant in the heart of Hollywoods Thai Town, serves the most authentic Thai food in America.” Coming from...
One of the ingredients which I miss the most when living away from Thailand is fresh young green peppercorns. I also miss young tamarind leaves, water mimosa, lotus stems, and a few edible flowers. B...
After Id made a passing reference to creamy Tom Yam Kung earlier, people have been asking me to talk more about this newer variation of Tom Yam which has taken Bangkok by storm in the last several ye...
The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board has recently asked me to develop another mac n cheese recipe in addition to the kugel-like Spiced Apple Macaroni and Cheese and Caramelized Onion Pasta Gratin aka F...
In case you havent noticed, there hasnt been much cooking going on here lately. This is because Ive been on the road constantly over the past two months. And, to be honest, when you travel this much,...
I dont write posts in which I adapt a recipe from a cookbook very often. And when I do, its because the recipe is so great that I have to share with you all lest, to use a Thai expression, I die from...
Id been meaning to educate myself more seriously on the cuisine of Laos since I started blogging a little over three years ago. And the book, Traditional Recipes of Laos, which is a compilation of ha...
Nothing to it, said Mom. Just like play dough. Make little balls. Like this. Yes. Good girl. And drop them into the pot very gently. Theyre like little pearls, said I. White lotus, said she. Bua loi ...
It doesnt happen very often that you get to enjoy regional Thai dishes in a Thai restaurant outside Thailand. Rarer still? Dishes that are tied not so much to a geographical location but a sub-group ...
Kluay Buat Chi made with red bananas turns out more yellow than off-white One would be hard-pressed to find anything among all the traditional, old-fashioned Thai desserts more "friendly" tha...
Isnt it great that one of the dishes that have pretty much put Thai cuisine on the world map is so easy to make? Tom Yum Goong [1] is a main course soup made by simply cooking whole shrimp gently in ...
Have you had durian? No, not a durian smoothie or durian ice cream. Not previously-frozen-then-thawed- out-to-make-you-think-its-fres h durian from your local grocery store in the US either. I mean rea...
In this good news-bad news scenario, Ive already given you the bad news in Pad Thai Recipe - Part Two in which I opine that its not the way Pad Thai is seasoned that makes or breaks it; it is how wel...
In order for this final post in the Pad Thai recipe series to make sense (or become clear as to why it is sketchy or seems to leave out important details), it is assumed that all of the earlier posts...
The day I met Pastry Chef Patrick Fahy, I was allowed to have much more fun than I deserved. We spent an afternoon making beet ice cream. He also let me wander around the kitchen playing with things ...
You know how when youre really smitten with someone, you cant hide it from your friends even though you want to, because they see right through how you stammer like a fool when talking about that per...
This was done out of curiosity, in response to a hypothetical question which I posed to myself one day: had apples been as easy to find and inexpensive as bananas in Thailand, would we batter-fry the...
This salad shows how some poverty and a lot of unpreparedness can result in something so great its worth making again and again. There is a point Id like to make, no, reiterate through the making of ...
In the midst of all the uncertainties in my childhood, there was one thing I was sure of: every Saturday at 10:00 am, on the dot, our doorbell would ring. And, unfailingly, the opened front gate woul...
When I was talking to Khun Wanna, owner of Spoon Thai restaurant in Chicago, my main objective was to get from her the recipe for (Yam) Naem Khao Tod [1] which apparently is a favorite among hard-cor...
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