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Thai Green Curry

Back when I was living in India, nine years ago, my family owned a couple of Asian convenient stores. The most common cooking ingredient that people came looking for was the green curry and the red curry paste. Made famous by Bollywood actors, Thai food to them at the time was merely just the two…

Pandan Chicken

I am uber excited to be sharing the recipe for this traditional Thai dish. Thai Pandan chicken is basically succulent, tender chicken thigh immersed in Thai flavours and kept overnight only to fry them while being swaddled in sweet-smelling Pandan leaf. Pandan leaf, also known as ‘fragrant plant’ is very common in South-east Asia. The…

Crabmeat in a yellow chilli stir-fry

Here is a typical southern Thai dish: spicy and pungent paired with the naturally sweet and succulent crabmeat. Even in Thailand only a few namely restaurants would offer this dish on the menu. That’s the case obviously because crab meat especially thick lumps like the ones required for this dish is hard to come by…

Hainanese Chicken Rice

Meals that you cook for your family demands a lot from you, doesn’t it? You want them to be comforting, nourishing, flavourful and also it must appeal to everyone’s taste. This dish is a full package of everything mentioned above. In addition it is extremely time saving and easy to make. Originally this dish belonged…

The Spicy Mangosteen Salad

Mangosteen in a Thai Salad In this post, the (wo)man of the hour is the queen of fruits, The mangosteen. Legend has it that mangosteen attained it’s title as queen after Queen Victoria of Britain, heard of this delicious purple beauty growing in Asia and offered an award to anyone who could deliver the fruit…

Sticky rice holy basil chicken stir-fry

ข้าวเหนียวผัดกะเพรา Warning: There is no turning back from here. Everybody who has tasted the Thai basil stir-fry on top of rice has loved it. Then when they tried the fried rice version (which is adding rice to the stir-fry) they loved that too. And now allow me to introduce you to the version that you…