Thai Breakfast: Khao Tom Moo (Boiled Rice with Pork)

Prepare:

500g. Minced pork (mixed with black pepper and crushed garlic)
300g. Sliced shitake mushroom
1 cup cooked jasmine rice

1 handful sliced scallion
1 handful sliced coriander
2 tbsp. finely crushed garlic (fry until it turn yellow)
1 crushed coriander root
1 tbsp. pickled radish

1 tbsp. fish sauce
50g. stock powder
2-3 cups water

Cooking Instructions:

1. Add water into the pot. Wait until it is boiling.
2. When it’s boiling hard, add coriander root and stock powder.
3. Make minced pork as a small ball of bite site. Drop them in boiling water. Cook for 5 minutes.
4. Add shitake mushroom. Let it cook for 1-2 minutes.
5. After that, turn off the fire. Test whether the taste is right. Add fish sauce as needed.
6. Pour the soup on cooked jasmine rice. Garnish it with sliced coriander, scallion, pickled radish and fried garlic.

Think of this recipe when it is your lazy time or even when you have no time. I cooked the soup and leave it in the fridge. Next morning, warm it and pour on top of the rice. A shortcut to cook breakfast.

Click Here for the video instruction of how I cook Khao Tom Moo.

Some people may have cook it in a different way but this way I cook is the shortest one

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Cutting Ripe Papaya: Less Pain

Since I was 10 years old, my main duty is to help in the kitchen whenever there was someone is cooking and it is a must if my aunt is in there. I think that is how, EE, her daughter learn to cook, she is way better than me and able to cook for a party up to 30 people. That is a lot of work!

I hated it whenever my aunt bought a ripe papaya from the market because that means it is going to be my job to cut them and it’s going to be my uncle.. to eat them.. haha Thinking about a girl with small hands holding a big papaya and trying to cut it when the ripe papaya is so slippery!!! Anyway, I managed to survived.. (and my uncle has to eat salty papaya in the papaya juice)

I have improved to be a papaya cutting expert.     Here is how I cut a ripe papaya, less pain, less messy and less salty as you barely touch the papaya with your salty hands.

1. Set up your cutting area, by the sink is the best. There you should have your cutting board and a knife. The reason you need to be close to the sink is that you can wash your hands whenever you need and you won’t splash the papaya juice all over the kitchen. I used to cut the papaya on the newspaper. I think it still makes a mess.

Some Thai people prefer taking the seed out with chopstick on this step. I used to do it but there’s no need. To pull the seeds out right now will cause bruise as you have to squeeze to hold a papaya in your hand.

2. Then cut the skin out from a side. Lay the papaya on the cutting board, see? you barely touch it. Follow the photos to see how.. when you are done at this step, rinse the papaya well with clean water as there is white milk come out from its skin. This milk could cause your skin irritation on the lips.

Last step!

Enjoy your real sweet papaya!

Merry Christmas to everyone! and thank you for visitting my blog!

(^_^) Joy~

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Thai food is probably the most amazing food on the planet. I haven’t tried them all yet – but it’s gotta rank up there with the best of them. I’ve been eating it for almost 5 years now and Joy – a lifetime. She looks happy enough!

I (Vern) have acquired a penchant for eating things out of the ordinary since arriving in Thailand. There are some weird foodstuffs out here for the adventurous. Sometimes I can be really curious…

It started with some large red ant eggs in my soup on a visit to Sisaket, and has expanded to include eating all sorts of Thai food oddities:

• crickets
• grasshoppers
• silk worms
• bamboo worms
• hellgrammites
• giant Chinese Cockroaches
• water bugs
• beetles
• scorpion
• durian

Here is Vern’s Thailand Travel Channel at YouTube with over 130 videos (and 1.3 million views) while in Thailand >

Here is the Gross Grub Series video playlist with 12 videos of eating bugs and other gross things >

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Neither Joy nor myself really enjoy Bangkok – it’s too big city for us. But, there is an amazing variety of food in Bangkok – Thai food of course, but also vast selections of foreign foods and that part we DO enjoy.

Here’s a short article about Bangkok Street Food that you might enjoy >

Photo: Washington Post

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We were notified recently that JoysThaiFood.com made the top 10 list of the best food blogs online.

How’s that!?

We thank them for the mention, and recommend you visit their site as there are 9 more great food blogs listed – all of them top notch.

Joy

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As I step further into the online world I find things I should be doing to market my Thai food site. I don’t like marketing anymore than you do – but, it’s a necessary evil. I’ve created a Squidoo lens. Not sure what it is, but it’s also related to Thai food: Joy’s Thai Food Recipe Squidoo Lens >

If you also use Squidoo would you let me know your lens addresses and we can link them up there.

Thanks! Joy

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Kow Tom Moo: Rice soup with pork, ginger, scallions

I’m not sure where this Reuters article was really going with this. Let’s just say I don’t “get it”. The taste of Thai food in Bangkok is a mix from the entire country. People from all corners of Thailand move to Bangkok and create food in their own style, relating to where they are from. Southern people make a lot of curries. Northern it’s more sweet and spicy, Southern – more sour and spicy. In Isaan – my favorite, it’s just SUPER spicy.

Thai food in Bangkok is as authentic as you can get. No, it doesn’t hold the same strength of flavors as we get in the different parts of the country outside Bangkok. In Bangkok they tend to blend the Thai food a little bit mellower for the masses so people from all over the country – that are centered there in Bangkok, can all enjoy it.

The writer goes on to say that Thais are starting to eat a lot more western food. I don’t think so. I’ve been here four years and the number of times I’ve ever had a Thai person ask if we could eat western food over Thai food has been 1-2 times. Honestly I can’t remember more than once – but there had to be at least two times!

Thais eat Thai food. Thais with a lot of money in Bangkok might be eating western food – hamburgers and pizza more than other Thais around the country, but nowhere near as much as they eat Thai food.

Here’s the ridiculous article…

Thais try to revive ailing cuisine…????????

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Do the Peruvians use Fava Beans like Thais do? I bet not!

What a joke. At least I thought it was until I read the article at the source. The clueless folks at Epicurious.com, no, I didn’t know who they were either before they started making a lame name for themselves… came up with the idea that Peruvian food is somehow the next best thing over Thai food.

First of all, one has to ask – how many South American employees they have working at this place? I’ve had Peruvian food. I liked some of it. Is it going to replace the amazing range of tastes found in Thai food? Not a chance. I think that nothing can possibly approach the variety and deliciousness of Thai food, not even Indian food – which happens to be my second favorite food. Jamaican food has some amazing dishes but I’d call that a 3rd to Indian food. I’d not even place Peruvian food in the Top 50.

So, apparently this Epispurious releases an annual list of their culinary trend predictions. Listen to what they say and be amazed…

Peruvian is the new Thai: You thought Peruvian cuisine was all about seviche, maybe? Guess again: Peru boasts culinary influences from Spanish, Basque, African, Cantonese, Japanese, Italian, French, and British immigrants. Pisco Sour, anyone?

Unfortunately I don’t have access to any Peruvian food here in Thailand. You know why that is? There aren’t any Peruvian restaurants here.

It can’t possibly compete with international tourists other favored cuisines. I think Epicurious is trying to make news for themselves. They’d best do it by sticking to the basics. Thai food is the most delicious food the world has ever known. Thai food has consistently been the top rated food over the last decade since the world’s introduction to it.

I know back in Florida we have no less than 15 Thai restaurants within a 20 mile radius of Tampa. I know because I would regularly eat Thai food a couple times a week before moving to Thailand. Are Floridians going to turn their noses up at Thai food and head the SUV’s to a Peruvian restaurant instead? Nah. IS THERE a Peruvian restaurant in your city? No, there isn’t. You’ll likely need to move to LA or New York where these clowns are likely located to find any Peruvian restaurants. The employees of this silly company probably won’t be eating there either.

Thai food is #1 from now until some new civilization is found that combines Thai, Indian, Hawaiian, and Jamaican foods.

Think that day is just around the corner? Nah, me neither!

(guest post written by big mouth, Vern)

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