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Here is a wonderful spicy dish; you may as well go for it! A crispy fried fish dressed with plenty of fresh herbs, plenty of chilies than some limejuice and fragrant ground roasted rice as a textural binder. It is an unpretentious dish, that is just about what is around and what is available; there [...]

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Tasty Thai Fried Eggs and Shrimp Salad

When the age-old question “what is for dinner” pops up, I bet that many of us will prefer recipes with just few ingredients found on supermarket shelves, short on preparation and cooking time. A difficult request from an ethnic oriented food website. However, today I will surplus that request and bring you a recipe that [...]

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Chicken Galangal Coconut Soup tom kha gai ; ต้มข่าไก่

It is pretty cheering and I must say rare that a single local dish will grab the attention of the entire world. Tom kha gai did just that! However, with fame comes the danger of losing it essence. You see, if a dish can be found on a menu of a Thai restaurant in the [...]

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Eggs a la Son In Law

A fact – Mothers in law can be hard to please. Here is a recipe that, according to the legend, shows the efforts of one young man to please his wife’s mother. Using only the very basic ingredients he could find in the pantry, he put together a plate that cannot fail. From the culinary [...]

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Thai Salad of Chinese Sausage with Tomatoes and Cucumbers

Goon chiang is a type of Chinese sausage that is is available at Chinese communities worldwide. It is usually made with pork meat and hard pork fat and seasoned with sugar, salt, pepper, garlic and Chinese spices, together with some Chinese liquor for extra flavor. This salad is quick and easy to make. The dish [...]

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Crispy Basic Thai Omelette

Blessed are the Thais for their unique attention for details. They do no spare efforts in creating intricate work of arts and their cuisine harmonizes flavors of robust ingredients in ingenious recipes. However, there will be days that even the Thais would crave for an easy, simple, cheap and tasty meal – a laid back, [...]

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Pork Liver Fried With Flowering Chives

A quick and tasty dish from the hot mouth of the dragon with only three ingredients! Flowering Chives, Pork Liver and Garlic Flowering Chives are all year round favorites for their mild garlicky flavor, and can be purchased inexpensively at almost any Asian market. In Thailand we like to fry them with pork, pork liver [...]

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