Thịt Kho or Vietnamese Caramelized Pork and Eggs. Thit Kho is one of my favourite recipes using one of my favourite cuts, pork belly. It has the delicious sweet and salty flavours I love so much. It makes use of what I call store cupboard staples such as garlic, soy sauce and brown sugar. There…
Asian Cuisine
Chinese Baked Whole Fish with Ginger and Spring Onions
Chinese Baked Whole Fish with Ginger and Spring Onions. A whole steamed or baked fish is served at the end of the Chinese New Year Feast. It symbolises an increase in prosperity. In Chinese dialect fish 鱼 Yú, sounds like the word for surplus. In China it is believed if you can save something at the end of the old year, you will make more in the next. 年年有余 Niánnián yǒu yú May you always have more than you need!
Massaman Beef Curry
Massaman beef curry. It is the last day of National Curry Week 2020. So I want to share one of my all-time favourite curries. Massaman curry is regularly voted in the world’s top dishes. It is a rather special mix of the typical flavours you will find in Thai food.
My Thai Coconut Fish Soup – Nothing to be Shy about
See what I did there another terrible pun. But I remember the village fetes when I was growing up and there was always a coconut shy. You aimed a small hard wooden ball to knock down coconuts and win a prize. The only other time I encountered coconut in my childhood was the giant box…