Welcome to my Traditional Thai Food Recipes

Ahh, one of my favorite snacks, a crispy pancake with a sweet filling. The yellow one is sugared egg yolk strands. But for this recipe, I'm covering the shredded sweet shrimp topping.
In the photo below you can see them being fried on a flat plate, when they are hot and still slightly soft, a layer of cream is spread on them, followed by a topping, then they are folded in half and the pancake crisps up.
This recipe uses limestone water, but use plain water if you can't find it. Limestone helps crisp the pancake.
Make all the parts first, the cream, the batter, the topping, (get your spoons ready, and the plate you want to put them onto!). Then assemble a few at a time, frying off the pancakes on a flat griddle, adding the topping while they're hot then setting them aside to cool.

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I was visiting friends in Kanchanaburi province, and realized how sick I am of coconuts! They're so plentiful and I eat so many of them. They're available throughout the year, and so when someone offers you another coconut, I'm not really sure it isn't some sort of punishment!

Above you can see ripe coconuts on the trees. But there are also

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This is Jok, a rice soup, made with mushrooms. It's normally cooked for a very long time so that the rice becomes mushy. However to make it easier, I've cooked it normally, and run it through a blender to break the rice grains. Fried garlic is perfect for this recipe.

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While up in the country, I decided to show you some of the berries that can be picked and eaten in Issan (North Eastern Thailand).

I like this picture so much, I'm cropped it and created desktop wallpapers for download. The berries have such an interesting texture and color! Choose the resolution you prefer, right click on the link and save as a JPG file then set it as your wallpaper!

Wall paper 320 wide x 480 high, iPod Touch and similar

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This dish is a spicy meat side dish normally eaten with sticky rice. It is chunky, making it ideal to eat with your fingers. In Thailand as with many cultures, there are many dishes you eat with your hands. Ensure you clean your hand thoroughly, take a chunk of sticky rice, and, using the sticky rice to cover your fingers, grab a chunk of the minced pork, then eat.

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If you've already made my Mu Yor recipe, then you can use it to make this spicy salad version. You can see from the photograph the spongy texture of the Mu Yor sausage caused by the ice crystals.

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Another one of these really sour fruits that we eat sometimes with sugar & salt and chilli dip. You can see a small sachet of the sugar mix behind it.

You'll find this is markets in central Thailand, around the city of Bangkok, places like Saraburi, Nakhon Pathom, Pathumthani.

This is also nice pickled, the sour fruit with the sour pickle really cuts through fatty foods.

This is a dumpling filled with vegetables and greens and sold right across Thailand as a snack. I'm including this recipe for completeness rather than taste. I find these dumplings doughy and only edible when freshly cooked with fresh fillings. So when you see them at a market stall, only buy them if they're cooked right there and then!

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Thai Rose Apples are a little sharp, a little sweet and have the texture of crisp celery. You won't see them very often in the west, they're not so popular, but they're refreshing.
Above is the one you'll see in market stalls about the size of an apple, below is a smaller variety.

In Thailand they sell this sweet toast ready made in packets, like a lot of bakery products they tend to be eaten for desserts. The photo at the top is my version of it, the photo at the bottom is the commercial product, made with little mini slicers of bread, each one 4cm x 4cm. To recreate the recipe I'm using full sized sliced bread cut into quarters.

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