FREE Thai Food E-Books! No purchase required…
Sawasdee Ka!
I just finished writing a new page here at the blog… in the upper left hand side you can see it - “FREE Thai Food E-Books!”.
We decided to just give away both of our e-books for free since we’ll be able to have more people see them and enjoy them!
If you don’t know what an e-book is, it’s simply a Word file with photos and nice formatting converted into an Adobe PDF format that you can read on your computer, PDA, phone, or maybe even your watch. It makes the files easy to read on electronic readers too - you may have heard about Microsoft’s and Amazon’s new readers. They are e-book readers designed specially for reading e-books.
If you want to get both e-books here are the links below…
Joy’s Thai Food Recipe E-book, 99 pages, fully illustrated, fully FREE!
Joy’s Top 20 Thai Desserts E-book, 38 pages, fully illustrated, also - fully FREE!
Thai Food Recipe: ขนมกุยช่าย Khanom Gui Chai (Chinese Chives in a Ball)
ขนมกุยช่าย Khanom Gui Chai
(Chinese Chives in a Ball, made from rice flour, Served with 3 flavors Black and Sweet Soy Sauce)
Prepare:
1 cup rice flour
1 cup glutinous rice flour
1/4 cup tapioca flour
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup drinking water
Cooking Instructions:
1. In a big bowl, sift together rice flour, glutinous rice flour and tapioca flour.
2. Add water and vegetable oil and mix well.
3. In Teflon pan, heat the flour on medium fire. Use paddle to sir until it’s cooked. Notice that the flour is not stick to the pan anymore.
4. Remove from the stove.
5. When it is less warm, knead it well with another 1/4 cup of tapioca flour.
6. Leave it in a bowl, cover with wet white cloth and lets cook the stuffing part.
Stuffing Recipe 1 (Chinese Chives)
Prepare:
1 cup Chinese chives (cut 1 cm.)
1/4 tsp. Sodium bicarbonate (commonly known as baking soda)
1 tbsp. black and sweet soy sauce
2 tbsp. light soy sauce
2 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 tbsp. minced garlic
Cooking instructions:
1. Heat the pan. Add vegetable oil. Wait until the pan is hot.
2. Add garlic, Chinese chives, baking soda, black and sweet soy sauce, light soy sauce and sugar. Stir fry until the Chinese chives is soft. Remove from the stove.
Stuffing Recipe 2 (Bamboo)
Prepare:
1/2 cup cooked bamboo (cut long and thin shape)
1/2 cup minced pork or chicken
1/4 cup dried shrimps (optional)
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 tbsp. light soy sauce
1 tbsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. pepper powder
1 tsp. salt
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pan. Add vegetable oil. Wait until the pan is hot.
2. Add garlic and fry until it has aromatic smell.
3. Add chicken or pork. Cook for 5 minutes.
4. Add light soy sauce, pepper, salt and dried shrimps. Mix well and remove from the stove.
Dipping Sauce:
1 tbsp. sliced chili pepper of all color
1/2 cup black and sweet soy sauce
3 tbsp. light soy sauce
5 tbsp. vinegar
1 tbsp. sugar
Mix them altogether.
7. Now, get back to the dough we prepare from the very first step.
Make a ball from the dough. Tuck any stuffing you like and roll it back to the ball shape. Use your two hands squeeze it a little bit to make it flat. Make sure you don’t see the stuff coming out.
8. Dress vegetable oil on steaming pot. Place the balls in it and steam for 20 minutes. After that, remove from the pot and put fried garlic on top. Dress some oil from fried garlic on them too, so each piece won’t stick to each other.
Stuffing can be varying upon your imagination. You may add boiled taro or potato then add some pepper and salt. Shrimps and tofu are your choices but not the whole fish with its head and Pla Rah from my previous recipe. 
haha
It won’t taste good together.
Thai Food Recipe: หมกปลาซิว Mok Pla Siw (Fish and herbs wrapped in banana leaves)
หมกปลาซิว Mok Pla Siw (Fish and herbs wrapped in banana leaves)
Prepare:
2 cup very small fish (As small as you can find)
5 red chili peppers
5 dried red chili peppers
5 cloves garlic
5 red onions
1 handful basil (ใบแมงลัก)
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1/4 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. minced galingale
1 handful cut scallion (1 inch long)
2 handful cut dill (1 inch long) I like this one so I added a lot
1 tbsp. slice lemongrass
3 kaffir lime leaves
2 tbsp. Pla Rah (fermented fish sauce)
Banana leaves
Cooking Instructions:
1. Ground chili peppers, red onions and garlic all together.
2. Clean the tiny fish very well and put in a big bowl.
3. Add fish sauce, sugar, pla rah, minced galingale, lemongrassm kaffir lime leaves, basil, dill and scallion.
4. Taste it. If you like how it taste then wrap it in banana leaves. If not, add more Pla Rah. At this step, you don’t have to make artistic banana wrap. 
haha Just do anything to keep it whole the food. Maybe use toothpick.
Ah! I forgot you can use foil paper (for food). That would make it easier, huh? But banana leaves will give a unique smell though, if you would like to try.
5. With banana leaves, you can grill on fire. With foil paper, cook in microwave for 5-10 minutes.
6. Other option, add everything in a clay pot. It will also have a distinctive smell.
7. Serve with sticky rice.
It is Isaan Style food and a farmer recipe from my mom. When you worked hard on the farm, in the heat, this recipe will increase your appetites.
Have you ever been offered to eat the whole fish by Thai People? Whole fish.. I mean its meat, its bones and its head. 
That’s how we eat it. The whole thing, especially a tiny fish would be easy to chew and swallow. I ate like that as well! because I am Isaan! Hahaha
Thai Food Recipe: Basil Shrimp! (Gapow Goong)
Basil Shrimps (Gapow Goong)
Gapow Goong
กะเพรากุ้ง
Prepare:
1 cup big shrimps (peeled, clean and de-veined)
1 handful basil
1 handful sliced spring onion
2 tbsp. minced chili peppers (Ground them if you really want to get real taste)
2 tbsp. minced garlic
3 tbsp. vegetable oil
2 tbsp. oyster sauce
1 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tsp. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. sugar
Some small amount of water
2 small drops black and sweet soy bean sauce
Cooking Instructions:
1. Soft boiled the shrimps. Ah! forgot to tell you the leave the tails on the shrimps, I think it looks better on the food (Doesn’t mean it will taste better, haha)
2. Here is what I do to make it real quick and short time for sneezing.
In a small cup, mix oyster sauce, black and sweet soybean sauce, sugar, fish sauce and water (5 tbsp.).
3. Next, heat the pan with medium and add vegetable oil. Wait until it gets warm and add minced garlic and chili peppers.
4. Cover your nose. don’t sneeze into the food.
5. Add spring onion, shrimps, basil and the sauce we already mix from number 2.
6. Stir-fry and count 1-2-3 then turn of the fire.
Mostly at Thai restaurant use only 3 tbsp. basil, however, at home my brother added 1 big cup of basil and make this recipe real sweet. He learnt to cook before me and loved to make crazy recipes for us.
One rule I have learned at home is just add whatever you want.
