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If you are a new visitor to my site, welcome! This site is full of recipes from my native Thailand. The best place to start are the recipe browsers on the left side. They let you see all the recipes available at a single glance.
Further down the left side you can also find the recipe categories. There are more than 800 recipes on this site and I add new ones often, so be sure to visit regularly! To search for a similar recipe, click on the pictures and it will take you to the search page.
This curry comes from the Muslim area of Thailand, the south, near the border with Malaysia. It is a chicken curry, made with rice and coconut milk, served with a spicy ginger side sauce. Imagine Paella crossed with Thai spices and that is very close to the style of this dish.
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This is a dessert made with taro - a sweet potato like root vegetable and topped with fried onion slivers. It sounds stranger than it tastes, the taste is similar to bread puddings, the taro gives this dessert the bread like texture, the onions add a contrast flavour. If you can't obtain taro, use sweet potato or yam.
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I'm visiting friends in Belgium for Christmas, and it's freezing! -4 degrees Celsius, it's 31 degrees in Bangkok and very humid. Time for Nam Kang Sei! Frozen snow cones from the freshly fallen snow, drizzled with Hales Blue Boy (helbruboy in Thai) cream soda and condensed milk. Merry Christmas.
These are some of the most flavorsome sausages you can eat, best of all, because you make them yourself, you can ensure only the best meat goes into them. In Thailand we make these wrapped in banana leaves, but you can also steam them in tinfoil like we've done here. They can be eaten hot or cold, when serving, its normal to cut them into slices.
A very simple stir fry red pork curry with a plenty of fresh vegetables. This dish plus rice makes a complete meal of meat and vegetables.
I'll let the photograph speak for itself.
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The soup is sour and spicy and provides the main flavours, the omelette adds the bulk to the meal. It's not at all unusual to eat combination dishes like omelette in soup in Thailand, and if you've ever had a dry omelette this dish makes a pleasant change! This dish is normally served with rice as a shared side dish. Guests take some of the soup and omelette and spoon it onto their rice.
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If you think an omelette should taste of eggs, this recipe is a wake-up call. It has a strong meaty flavour with a slight spicy after-taste that is very different from a traditional 'eggy' omelette. Best of all, it's a very easy dish to make. A good way to serve this omelette is to cut it into squares, so that it can be shared between several people as a side dish.
This dish is intense Thai food! We eat raw shelled shrimp by spooning on a mixture of chillies, garlic, mint and spring onions, a little fish sauce and lemon juice is sprinkled on, and the shrimp is eaten in one go (minus the tail which you bite off). Fish sauce has a strong taste, so does chilli, so does lemon juice, so does garlic, so does mint, and so does celery. Imagine all these strong tastes in one mouthful of fish, you can see why I call it intense food. It's like a Thai version of Sushimi, but we eat it with chillies instead of wasabi.
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The crunchy mix you see in these leaves is fried chicken flavoured with fried baby shrimp. I've used lettuce in the photograph, but traditionally we'd use betel leaves. These leaves are an acquired taste but very popular in Asia. They are the same plant that betelnuts come from, the nuts they sell on the street in Taiwan. Unfortunately they are popular because they are a legal stimulant, and I avoid them because it makes my heart flutter as though I'm nervous.
Below is a photograph of the Betel leaf version of this dish.
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