Celebrating the Art of Authentic Thai Home Cooking Cuisine
September 23, 2012 · 7 comments
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Dtom Jeaw Pla is a Laotian fish soup recipe which is easy to prepare. It is similar to a Northern Thai dish called “Aw Jeaw Pla” (เอ๊าะแจ่วปลา) which is popular among the Tai Lue people (ไทลื้อ). Dtom Jeaw Pla is a rustic and spicy fish soup that is far from being unsophisticated. There is something [...]
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March 21, 2011 · 93 comments
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The dish was introduced to me by a street vendor in forsaken part of town some twenty years ago. Auntie Yai was a true character. She was wearing intensive makeup and I still remember her talkative hilarious manner. I and other customers waiting in line were regularly subjected to nonstop “interrogations” or “interviews”. I must [...]
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November 20, 2010 · 8 comments
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Bangkok’s markets are busy from dawn until dusk, sometime even stay open when most of the city is asleep. Normally, the traffic of shoppers and crowds of office workers hurrying their way masks the busy stretch of shops and food stalls, making it difficult to pay close attention to details. Earlier this year, however, a [...]
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November 9, 2010 · 1 comment
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Catfish are not too fussy about the waters in which they swim. They can even flourish in stagnant waters and flooded rice fields. Farmed widely, Catfish is an inexpensive, accessible, nutritional and delicious food source. Grilled to delicacy, the yellowish mildly fatty flesh goes well with sticky rice and chili-limejuice-fish-sauce sauce, or sweet fish-sauce dip [...]
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April 20, 2010 · 7 comments
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Here is a wonderful spicy Nam Tok recipe; you may as well go for it! A crispy fried fish dressed with plenty of fresh herbs, plenty of chilies than some lime juice and fragrant ground roasted rice as a textural binder. It is an unpretentious dish, that is just about what is around and what [...]
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April 19, 2010 · 2 comments
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Ground roasted rice is often used in Thai Northern Eastern style cooking (Issan) in spicy salads as an aromatic and textural agent. Offering an unmistakably hearty and rustic bite to the food. You can find it in almost any Asian supermarket and it is very simple to prepare. I do hope that you will overcome [...]
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March 14, 2010 · 8 comments
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The northeast region of Thailand, bordered with Laos in the north and Cambodia in the east, is a rough land to work. Issan, as it known in Thai, suffers droughts and deficiencies, the land gets really dry and unforgiving making in some area the digging for mineral salt a better business than agriculture. Issan food [...]
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