North of Thailand has so many delicious food and this one also comes from the Northeast of Thailand. This pork and soup combination works so well. The pork is juicy and flavorful and the soup is spicy and sour. The 3 main ingredients of lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime leaves make for an explosion of […]
Thai Red Curry Chicken
Thai red curry is your classic curry everyone must have tried at least once when you go to your favorite restaurant. It might look and seem too complicated to cook. However it’s fairly easy with two main ingredients – red curry paste and coconut milk. This is my wife and my mother in law’s favorite […]
Pork Larb (pork salad)
Larb is sour and spicy at the same time. It’s not a hot food, it’s mostly eaten at room temperature or cool. It is a quick and easy dinner. In Thailand we usually eat this with sticky rice and cabbage. Here at home we also like to eat it with some cucumber slices and iceberg […]
Beef Nigiri
The first time I tried this was in Thailand when we went there right before the pandemic and before everything shut down. My family owns a café in Thailand and there is a shabu shabu restaurant right next to our café. We usually go there for dinner and that’s where I was able to try […]
Thai Style Rice Vermicelli Noodles
In noodle shops in Thailand you can get 2 types of noodles; one with soup like a pho and the other one with no soup. We love these dry noodles with lots of toppings. This is my attempt at it which the wife really loves so I know it’s good. I use rice vermicelli with […]
Spicy Pork Belly with Lemon Grass
We love pork. We eat a lot of pork at home and Raiden also loves pork a lot. A few weeks ago we were at Costco and found some pork belly that looked really good. We usually don’t buy pork belly but I wanted to try something new. I wanted to cook it using Thai […]
Pandan Cake with Coconut Cream
Pandan is very popular plant in Asia. In Thailand it is mostly used in desserts and it is widely loved because of its unique fragrant smell. My family runs a café in Thailand and among all the cakes one of the most popular cake is the pandan sponge cake. I have borrowed this recipe from […]
Salmon Rice Bowl
This is a fairly new item on our menu. I have recently started making this because we were trying to get Kiara to like and enjoy salmon. Raiden grew up eating and loving salmon which he usually eats with a side of fries. But we wanted to try something different. I’ve tried so many recipes […]
Tom Yum Goong
Thai food is very diverse in its flavors. We have sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, tangy and so many more hard to describe flavors. Sometimes we have all these flavors in one dish and they all work so well together. Tom Yum Goong is sour and spicy and a bit tangy all in one dish. It […]
Chicken Masala
This one is my mom’s favorite dishes. I guess maybe because it is not Thai food. When I was a young student going to university, I used to stop by my wife’s house all the time for dinner. One of the dishes her mother made frequently was the chicken curry. I loved it so much […]
Salted Egg Yolk Squid
Growing up in Thailand we used to go out for seafood dinners every weekend to Pattaya which is about a half hour drive from my hometown. My parents would shove all the kids into the family sedan and we would go out to feast on crabs, oysters, muscles you name it, it would be there. […]
Japchae
This recipe has a lot of ingredients but it is so worth all the prep work. It is a type of Korean noodles that looks complicated because it has so many ingredients but once you break it down, it is fairly simple. Kiara really loves these noodles because it is soft and tasty. It has […]