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March 20, 2009
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This is a plain soup that contains mung bean noodles (wun-sen) and pork. In Thai it is called “dtom jeut wun-sen moo sap”. In the ingredients below, you can see mung bean noodles, pork balls, chopped spring onion and chicken stock cube in the middle. The transparent noodles are usually sold in dried …
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Mung Bean Noodle Soup at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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March 06, 2009
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The dish today is called Dried Beef in coconut Milk, or “pat neua kati”. You are supposed to prepare the beef first by drying it with salt. Then roasting it until done. Next you are supposed to pound it to separate the fibres. As you can see from the picture of the ingredients below, we just used salted dried beef. Other ingredients…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Dried Beef in Coconut Milk at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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February 27, 2009
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The dish we have for you today is chicken fried with ginger. You can also do it with pork. In the ingredients below, you can see spring onion, onion, straw mushroom, chicken, ear mushroom and ginger in the middle. The seasoning we used was oyster sauce, fish sauce and fermented soy…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Chicken Stir Fried with Ginger at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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February 20, 2009
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This is another one of those simple stir fried dishes. This one is based around kale which is a green leafy vegetable. It is believed to have anti-cancer properties so a good idea to have it in your diet. In the ingredients photo below, you can see carrots, garlic, kale stalks, kale leaves and chicken in the middle. You can use mushrooms instead of carrots. You can also…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Stir Fried Kale and Carrots at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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February 13, 2009
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When it comes to Thai food, presentation always counts for a lot. I like experimenting with new recipes and even if I think the results might taste good, a Thai person would first comment on how it looks. Just take a look at this stir fried dish. It looks delicious even before you try it. A…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Stir Fried Prawns and Snow Peas at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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February 06, 2009
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Our Thai dish today is called “buap pat moo” or Stir-fried pork and angled sponge gourd. It is also commonly cooked with prawns or chicken. The sponge gourd can grow up to three feet in length. However, you need to choose one that is young and still soft to the touch. As it grows mature it will become bitter. You can eat it raw like a cucumber…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Stir Fried Pork with Sponge Gourd at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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February 03, 2009
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One of the best agro-tourism projects in Thailand is undoubtedly Farm Chokchai in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. In fact it has won many awards. Farm Chokchai is situated on the Friendship Highway in cowboy country and is only 159 km from Bangkok. You can either come here as a day trip from Bangkok or as a stopover on your…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: Farm Chokchai Farm Tours at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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January 29, 2009
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One of the dishes that I often cook is stir-fried vegetables. You can adapt this in so many different ways depending on what vegetables you have in stock. If I have bought a curry from the roadside, then I usually supplement the stir-fry with some extra meat. Either pork or chicken. In the ingredients below you can see cabbage, chicken, carrots and garlic in the center. As …
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Stir Fried Vegetable with Chicken at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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January 22, 2009
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This week we have something different for you. It is a dip that you can have with green mangoes. Thai people don’t often eat fruit without some kind of dip. Another popular dip with green mango is a mixture of sugar and ground chilli. In the picture below, you can see the following ingredients: green mango, red…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Mango with Sweet Fish Sauce at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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January 19, 2009
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In August 2008, Harry Nicolaides, a self-published author and university lecturer, was arrested at the airport in Bangkok for allegedly committing lese-majeste. According to the police, a paragraph in his little read book published a few years ago was slanderous towards the Crown Prince. Harry was denied bail and has …
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: Harry Nicolaides and the Lese Majeste Law at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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January 15, 2009
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The Thai Rice Soup, or “khao tom” is not only a simple and quick dish to cook, but it is also a nice change to eat something plain and simple if you are not feeling too well with say a stomach ache or the flu. However, some people like to spice it up by adding extra condiments. Pictured in the ingredients below is steamed rice, minced…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Rice Soup with Minced Pork at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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December 26, 2008
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Penang curry is one of my favourite Thai dishes. It is simple to make as long as you can buy the ready-prepared chilli paste. In the ingredients below, you can see coriander, sliced beef (you can also use pork or chicken), sliced spur chilli, thinly sliced kaffir lime leaves, sweet basil, coconut milk and penang chili paste in the middle. If you don’t have the …
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Penang Curry at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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December 25, 2008
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All of the writers at www.Thai-Blogs.com would like to wish all of our regular readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. These are pictures I took this morning of activities at the school where I teach. Although the majority of our students are Buddhists, they still wanted to have fun and a learn a little about another culture at the same …
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: Merry Christmas from Thailand at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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December 24, 2008
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One of the latest major tourist attractions to open in Thailand is the “Dragon Descendants Museum” in Suphanburi Province. Like the Erawan Museum in Samut Prakan that is shaped like a three-headed elephant, this museum is also a “Wonder of Thailand”. One of those rare places where perhaps the building itself is more interesting and beautiful than the artifacts it…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: Museum of the Descendants of the Dragon at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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December 19, 2008
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This is another one of those simple dishes that doesn’t need much effot in making. In Thai, it is called “kai luk kery”. Interestingly, this translates literally as “son-in-law eggs”! In the ingredients below, you can see tamarind juice at the top and soy sauce below that. You can use fish sauce instead if you don’t mind the smell. At the bottom left we have …
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook…Hard-Boiled Egg in Tamarind Sauce at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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December 11, 2008
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Our Thai meal today didn’t need, of course, any cooking as it is a salad. It is Winged Bean Salad or “yum tua pu” in Thai. We actually bought all the ingredients at the local market and all we had to do is mix everything together! In the ingredients below, you can see fresh…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Winged Bean Salad at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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November 21, 2008
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This vegetarian dish, using morning glory, is called “pad pak bung fai daeng” in Thai. The last part “fai daeng” refers to the red flame that leaps up when you throw in the vegetables. You can also do a version using minced pork. The ingredients for the vegetarian version are shown below. They are morning glory…
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Written by: Richard Barrow
Read more: How to cook… Stir-fried Morning Glory at Richard Barrow’s Life in Thailand
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