thai food

I heard about Mekong whisky, that scared me (and was another one with the formaldehyde rumour)

I are not.

And the "nuts" must surely be peanuts, right?

the dried shrimp are rehydrated and fried with the base ingredients, but I have seen it done without them being rehydrated. I never saw it with proper meat in it other than a bit of minced chicken.

my suggestion to anyone seriously wanting to learn more about Thai food and/or cook it is to check out David Thompson's exhaustive and really interesting book called, simply, Thai Food. some people have complained that there's not a nam pla (fish sauce) recipe in it, but with everything else it contains, that's really a small complaint. about the first 300 pages are all a history of Thai cooking which is really fascinating to read (if you're into that sort of thing). it also differentiates between the different styles of cooking which are representative of the different regions of Thailand. seriously, i cannot recommend this book enough. also, apparently the UK version has a cooler cover than the US one i linked above---pink Thai silk. check it out here.

Vatcharin Bhumitchitr's books are worth investigating as well. i'm particularly enamoured of the one he wrote about street vendors---particularly as it had a recipe that i grew up with my mom making, and i'd never seen it written down before. salad kaek is lovely, and i know it can't be found in restaurants around here! :) perhaps at the ones Vatch runs.

if you're having difficulty finding ingredients and are in the US, i'd also suggest trying someplace like Import Food.com or Temple of Thai.com. i've ordered from ImportFood before and had absolutely no problems doing so---although i haven't ordered their fresh produce, everything else has been top notch from them and i can't recommend them highly enough. their customer service people are also very friendly and helpful.

thai curries are great, but there's more to it than just curry, dammit! :)

Not sure about that, but I have used the analogy:

pad thai : Thai food :: bi bim bop : Korean food

pad thai, to my understanding, is more of a snack. of the sort one would purchase from street vendors. not unlike big soft pretzels or churros or something similar are here.

granted, it works okay as a meal. i'm all about adaptability. hell, popcorn (as someone mentioned on another thread) is also an acceptable meal at times. but it's hardly representative of the entire nation's food as a whole. :)

Haha! That's brilliant, Jaymc.

should be more like "chop suey != chinese food."

whoops. XD

search (sf bay area):
thep phanom on waller/fillmore, sf
lotus thai on piedmont ave, oak
royal thai, downtown san rafael

can anyone recommend/ or describe the taste of thai pineapple rice?

i have been broke for like a week now and have been surviving of Thanksgiving leftovers and stolen bagels from work.
i buddy at work is getting Thai food for lunch and offered to buy me some. i am in such need of a good meal and all this thai food sounds sooo good right now that i can't decide what to get. Help me!

wtf? pad see mow and tom kah soup duh.

get with it man.

dude, i'm just a little overwhelmed with the prospects of a good meal

i want to eat it all

kha mu (thai pork with galangal)

Kaeng Kua Phak Gai (chicken and winter melon curry)

pad kee mao (drunky rice)

tom ka gai (coconut and chicken soup)

had last night:
tom yum soup
isaan sausage
crispy duck salad
pad kee mow noodles

the isaan sausage was the only thing i've never tried before, it was sooo good especially with the slices of fresh ginger and red onion

i'm doing my presentation on THAI TOWN this afternoon -- wish me luck! maybe thai for dinner tonight to celebrate.

Tom yum soup is so ultimate.

where'd you go bell labs? Just two nights ago, while eating amazing chicken massaman curry at Srip, I mentioned how I've never had thai sausage, even though it's always one of the recommended things.

we went to zabb city.
we gotta get back to sri soon though.

sausage was excellent, not at all skanky.

tom yum is the best soup ever.

I'll get the sausage next time I go to one of the Zabbs, maybe Zabb city pre-Dazzle Ships next week. The one in queens near me is open till 2am though, so maybe I'll go late this weekend. I've recently tried both Nasura and Chao thai in elmhurst...both super authentic, though I preferred Nasura.

I took a chance at Zabb once and got a crispy rice and pork skin dish. I think I mixed the words up in my head and thought it was a crispy pork dish. It wasn't. The rice was crispy, and awesome. The pork skin was, well, pork skin, and the texture really freaked me out. I can be a real food wimp. I got scolded for not eating enough of the pork.

zabb city is becoming a weekly thing, it's so convenient. though i should get off my ass and go to queens, i want to try the new isaan place on broadway (i forget what it's called, it is close to where le sans souci used to be)

Poodam or something. I keep forgetting about that, it's about a 2 minute drive from my place.

arunee!

I haven't tried arunee yet but am planning, it'll complete my "authentic thai food of queens" tour.

http://sandiegorestaurants.typepad.com/san_diego_restaurant_revi/images/2007/05/25/kafe_yen_005.jpg

Probably would work fine with most proteins, but I think fish prob. too delicate for that.

mackerel

I got tilapia

I have never bought fresh fish before! Goodness gracious, that shit's expensive!

saute the fish in the curry paste but remove it when done. add it back in when everything else is done.

Btw, here's a recipe that's basically what you're proposing, except without the broccoli (which to include I'd blanche a bit before adding to the coconut milk between steps 2 and 3):

http://www.atasteofthai.com/index.php?page=recipe&id=328

Oh! also! how small do I cut the fish?

I don't think you need to cut it up for this recipe. In the picture it looks like whole fillets.

Well that recipe yeah but I was planning on doing a more traditional soupy curry w/ bite size pieces type jawn

I guess you could cut to any size you like.

an inch or so is good, as a general rule

living in sydney now and i'm eating so much REAL THAI FOOD. it is the best. quality of life improvement = 100%

thai spicy

REAL Thai food

cf thread of pictures of real chinese food

rticles are tl;dr but the worst thing is American hipsters who say "That's not real _________"

― liars - wkiw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, June 7, 2012 7:09 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm just being stupid, forget it