Classic comfort food perfect for any weather: silky wontons containing pork flavoured with Thai aromatic paste, springy egg noodles, rich broth, and plenty of fried garlic oil. It warms and fills without being stodgy, which is particularly good for this breezily crisp yet sunny spring weather. (You understand, of course, that stodge isn’t inherently bad, but sometimes you … Continue reading
More noodles–and the first stir-fried noodle dish on this blog! These are spicy noodles perfumed with basil, improvised by Leela at SheSimmers. Leela writes that she cooked up this dish on the fly, calling it kuay tiao phat niraman, or nameless (anonymous) fried noodles. It’s a little bit like phat kee mao and a bit like … Continue reading
Kaeng jued is comfort food. I’ve written before about this type of dish, gaeng jued, a plain, clear soup that’s largely unspiced except for maybe a tiny bit of ground peppercorn (but not too much, or it might turn into a clear kuay jap). Plain isn’t necessarily boring, though–this deeply savoury broth is often filled with interesting … Continue reading
I can’t get it up for beetroot, really, certainly not in the same way I perv after potatoes–but my view of it has greatly improved after making it into this salad… Continue reading
I call this a pork pot pie because a British pork pie is something different. This is actually an elaborate version of a pork, apple, and (hard) cider pie we made to see my friend Mary off last spring, tinkety tonk, old fruit. (Not gonna lie, I am kind of secretly hoping this pie and … Continue reading
To continue the theme of breakfast, this is what I meant by a Thai-style solid breakfast: a 2-egg omelette with hot jasmine rice. This isn’t omelette as you probably know it, all delicate, creamy and barely set; this is bold, brown, crisp-edged. I was pretty lucky to have this cooked for me most mornings … Continue reading
The British love of spaghetti bolognese – spag bol to many – is in specific terms a mystery to me, but I can understand the general appeal of long pasta and rich sauce. It is definitely the thing to eat when it’s cold outside, as it is right now in my corner of the world. … Continue reading
So, for the past few weeks I have been enjoying Christmas food. It has all been unimpeachably delectable. It has also been devoid of the particular savour of Thai cuisine: those bold flavours further heightened by searing spice and fresh herbs, that plateful of jasmine rice, spoon in right hand and fork in left… I … Continue reading
I didn’t make many friends at university. You’re all very surprised, I’m sure. Before this post is sucked into unattractively misanthropic and introverted grousing, I shall say that the friends I did make and keep are quite lovely people. One such marvellous person is Flory, a fellow SOASian who blogs over at The Adventures of … Continue reading
When I started blogging about food in general, I told myself I would try to honestly show how I eat, in addition to displaying all the fancy dishes. And yet, as it happens, I am mildly embarrassed to be showing you this – gaeng jeud is so basic, there’s not really much of a formula … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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