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
There is no one way to make fried rice. You can use freshly cooked rice and light seasoning, making a comfortingly bland and stodgy dish, or you can give it a bit of tooth, a bit of fire. The latter is what you’ll find here. This is an adaptation of Kasma Uncha-Lohit’s fried rice recipe … Continue reading
Ugly food is good food. This stir-fry is full of soft textures and gentle flavours, quite unlike the complex profiles of the more popular Thai dishes. Even if you’re a chilli fiend who loads up on the stinkiest fermented sauces, sometimes your palate (and, let’s be real, your guts) become exhausted, and you return to … Continue reading
‘I don’t know what to cook tonight,’ I typed to my mum over Skype. ‘นี้ไง แตงกวาผัดไข่,’ she replied, ‘ง่ายๆ กินกับข้าวร้อนๆ ก็ใช้ได้นะ.’ That was that, then. One delicious and easy variety of stir-fry in Thai cuisine is the combination of a vegetable, eggs, and seasoning sauces. You might have seen Leela’s luffa gourd and egg stir-fry, … Continue reading
Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s article, ‘Bangkok Anew’, has got me thinking lately. Although the article is not without its problems, I can relate to a lot of it–being a foreigner native is a position which we must negotiate carefully. This passage amongst many was particularly familiar: I recently watched a Nicholas Cage movie called Bangkok Dangerous and … Continue reading
Yesterday I had a late lunch of ramen at Tonkotsu with Mr. Pear. I’m not sure about the massive ladles you get with ramen here–I’m used to eating all kinds of noodle soups with these kinds of spoons–but hey, it works, and the ramen itself was decent. After we finished, I decided I wanted something complex … 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
I believe in taking pride in the small achievements throughout your life, balancing them with larger milestones in an attempt to maintain a good perspective on things. It is, for example, sort-of okay that I struggled to chisel myself out of bed today and then completely failed to do the washing-up, because I have managed … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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