Phad Cha Talay (Spicy Seafood Stir Fry)
Spicy Seafood Stir-Fry in Thai, Phad Cha! Talay
Phad Cha! Talay
Spicy Seafood Stir-Fry
ผัดฉ่าทะเล
Prepare:
1/4 cup sea mussel
1/4 cup cooked cockle (throw away the shell)
1/2 cup cut squid (score the squid and soft boiled)
1/4 cup shrimp (peeled, de-veined, soft boiled)
5 pieces snapper (cut to bite size and boil)
2 bunches pepper corn
1 tbsp. minced chili pepper
1 tbsp. minced garlic
2 tbsp. sliced galingale
2 tbsp. chili paste for Tom Yum
1 tbsp. cut yellow or red sweet pepper
1 group scallion (cut 1 inch)
1/2 cup basil
1/2 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. oyster sauce
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pan start on low flame and add vegetable oil. Wait until it’s hot then fry minced garlic.
2. When the garlic smell aromatic, increase the flame. Add chili pepper, galingale, pepper corn, followed by squids, shrimp, snapper, cockles and sea mussel.
3. Mix well. Now, add fish sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, chili paste for Tom Yum.
4. Quick stir and then add sweet pepper, scallion and basil. Turn off the fire.
ผัดฉ่าทะเล is what I always order at the restaurant. With this recipe, I really like squid so I add a lot. 
You can always add more or cut out the ones you don’t like.
Thai Food Recipe: Spicy Fish Balls Salad (Yum Sab Look Chin Bpla)
Spicy Salad with Fish Balls in Thai, Yum Sab Look Chin Pla
Yum Sab Look Chin Pla
Prepare:
15 premium quality fish balls (cooked and cut half)
2 tsp. crispy fried garlic (minced garlic fry in vegetable oil. Remove when the color turns gold)
1 tsp. pickled radish
1 / 4 cup sliced Chinese celery
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. minced chili pepper
Cooking Instructions:
1. Mix fried garlic and pickled radish with the fish balls
2. In a different bowl, mix fish sauce, lemon juice, sugar, minced chili pepper, more or less spicy as you prefer.
3. Arrange the fish balls on the plate and dress with spicy sauce. Decorate the plate with cabbage or sliced tomato.
Serve Spicy salad fish balls while it’s still hot.
Thai Food Recipe: Lemon Garlic Shrimp Dipping Sauce (Nam Prig Gapi)
Lemon Garlic Shrimp Paste (Dipping Sauce) in Thai, Nam Prig Gapi
Lemon Garlic Shrimp Paste Dipping Sauce
น้ำพริกกะปิ
Prepare:
1 tbsp. shrimp paste
3 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. small eggplant
1 tbsp. garlic
1 tbsp. red chili pepper
1 tbsp. palm sugar
Cooking Instructions:
1. In a wide pan, add a little vegetable oil and shortly fry the shrimp paste until it smells aromatic. Remove and rest it in a bowl.
2. In a mortar, ground chili pepper and garlic together.
3. Add shrimp paste, sugar, lemon juice and fish sauce.
4. Add small eggplant and use the pestle crush it lightly.
5. Dress it with whole red chili pepper and coriander leave. Serve with fresh vegetable, for example, cucumber, string bean, eggplant, soft boiled cabbage.
Southern style, they serve this dipping sauce with a basketful of fresh vegetable when you order Kao Raad Gang (Different kind of food as you like on top of the rice).
We finish all the vegetable and the sauce was all gone. This sauce is also good with omelet and fried mackerel.
Joy in Magazine!
Joy in a Magazine!!
My 15 minutes of fame as you say in America - yes?
I was featured in a Thai Magazine, July 2007!!! (Page 69 if you want to find me) It’s called SMEs Chee Chong Ruay in Thai language. I just bought it and had a look.
One day, my best friend, who is a writer of this magazine asked me about what do I do in my free time because she didn’t see me often when I was in
So, I wrote my story and recipes on Blogger. Also, I made cooking videos with free downloads and I make a little money on selling E-Books, (Try Thai Food, Authentic Thai Food to Try at HOME).
I had too much free time, I guess haha… but doing it is fun and you wouldn’t think that it is hard work at all.
These things that my husband and did seems to be a very new small business for Thai people, as I haven’t seen many people doing it yet. We thought it would take about 5 more years for Thai people to understand how to make money from the internet, especially blogging but if a person can write English – even only as good as me (and I’m far from perfect!), then a little money can be made.
However, my friend wanted to show her readers that doing what you love can also make you money, if you have time to relax you also have time to do this relaxing business at the same time.
Anyway, she spent some nights interviewing me on the phone and asking me a lot of information.
Now, I am expecting to see more blogs in Thai language. Blogger allows blogs in Thai now – and will even translate blogs into Thai or more than 10 other languages. There are so many good topics to write about Thailand or even some other interesting topics. But when we search we don’t find very much written in Thai for Thai people to read, especially blogs.
Even though it doesn’t make a ton of money for me, blogging is a good way to share your way of thinking and your personality through your BLOG!
Ok, that’s all – I just wanted to tell you about my article in the Thai magazine. \(^v^)/ I’m happy today!
