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

Joy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:54:09 +0000

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 [...]

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Cutting Ripe Papaya: Less Pain

Joy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:01:22 +0000

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 [...]

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Alternative Thai Food: Eating Bugs!

Joy — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:56:24 +0000

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 [...]

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Bangkok Street Food

Joy — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:48:18 +0000

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 > [...]

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Joys Thai Food One of Times Online’s Top 10!

Joy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:02:13 +0000

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 Share on FacebookJoys Thai Food One of Times [...]

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Joy’s Thai Food Squid Lens? Huh?

Joy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:53:50 +0000

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 [...]

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Unauthentic Thai Food in Bangkok?

Joy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:40:12 +0000

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. [...]

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Epicurious or Epi-spurious? Is Peruvian the New Thai Food?

Joy — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:42:49 +0000

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 [...]

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Thai Food Exports Damaged from Protests?

Joy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:42:44 +0000

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of perishable Thai food did just that, perished, as a result of the recent week-long shutdown (siege) of both the Suvarnabhumi and Don Muang Airports in Bangkok. This protest showed the world that Thailand’s economy is subject to the whims of protesters who have no qualms about shutting down the [...]

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Rambutan! Thailand’s BEST Fruit!

Joy — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:34:15 +0000

One of my favorite times of the year is happening right now in Thailand. It’s time for the RAMBUTANS to become RIPE! I’m a rambutan lush, I have to admit. I eat more of these things than a man has a right to! What in the world are rambutans? You might be asking yourself… Rambutans [...]

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Thai Food in a Global Market

Joy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:34:58 +0000

Thai Food Globally! Though most people believe in the uniqueness of traditional Thai cooking, and in the idea of an “authentic Thai cuisine” in reality Thai food is the product of the interaction between nations for centuries. What is widely regarded as “Thai food” is a combination of foods and influences of German, Chinese, Laos, [...]

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A Little History About Thailand – and Thai Food Facts

Joy — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:27:08 +0000

A Little Bit About Thailand! History Thailand was called “Siam” starting in 1939. Thailand as a country has never been colonized by a foreign nation unlike Laos, Cambodia and other Asian countries. Thailand’s culture, politics, economics and social aspects have all changed in a great procession of steps. Thailand’s development started in the 13th century. [...]

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Clean Food, Good Taste: Symbol of Thai Food Excellence?

Joy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 +0000

If you come to Thailand chances are you’ll want to eat something. Chances are you won’t know, where is a safe place to eat. There are millions of small street-side vendors with Thai food carts all over the cities and villages and you don’t really know what is good and what isn’t good. “Good” meaning, [...]

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FREE Thai Food E-Books! No purchase required…

Joy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:44:42 +0000

Sawasdee Ka! We decided to give away one of our eBooks for free when you purchase the original 101 page Thai food ebook. Order Joy’s Thai Food Recipe Ebook here! 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 [...]

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Best Thai Food in the USA?

Joy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:52:51 +0000

There are many ideas about what constitutes the best Thai food in the USA. After a bit of research this morning I think one definite candidate for the best Thai food in the United States is this restaurant in LA. called, Renu Nakorn. Apparently they make excellent Northern and Northeastern (Isaan) Thai food to die [...]

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Thai Food Tips: What to Eat at a Thai Food Restaurant?

Joy — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:45:50 +0000

You probably love Thai food but you order the same things all the time because you don’t know what to get that you might like. I’ll offer some suggestions here by covering some popular Thai foods that you might enjoy… I think there are many people that don’t know what to eat when they go [...]

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Thai Food Lifehack: Rice Cooker Hole Fixer!

Joy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:20:00 +0000

Lifehack: Rice Cooker with Hole in It? Fix it! Recently we went riceless for a few weeks. Apparently I had burnt a hole in the rice-cooker somehow. It’s an aluminum bowl that fits into the electric cooker and it’s fairly thick. HOW it gets a hole, I’m not sure. But it did. So, being from [...]

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What to Eat for Breakfast in Thailand?

Joy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:04:46 +0000

What to Eat for Breakfast in Thailand? Actually, this is Southern Thailand – so the foods are available here – but possibly you’ll really have to look for them in exactly this form in Northeast or Northern Thailand. Bangkok should have these readily available. What to eat for Breakfast in Southern Thailand? Finding the right [...]

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Top 5 Strange Thai Foods!

Joy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:59:48 +0000

Top 5 Strange Thai Foods! Most people think Thai food is very healthy because in one menu you will get all kinds of food nutrients, vitamins from vegetables, protein and carbohydrate from meat and rice. If I ever thought about the unhealthiest or strangest foods we have here, I would think of these five and [...]

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Joys Top 5 Thai Food Specialty Recipes!

Joy — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:09:18 +0000

Joy’s Top 5 Thai Food Specialty Recipes from Thailand! \(^v^)/ Joy’s Top 5 Thai Food Specialty Recipes! from Joy’s TryThaiFood Blog 5. Gang Som Naw Mai Dong (Spicy Bamboo Soup) with photo and video! 4. Yum WoonSen (Glass Noodle Spicy Salad) with photo! 3. Gang Som Goong Kai Cha-Om (Shrimp and Fried Egg Sour Soup) [...]

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Thai Food Notes

Joy — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:36:16 +0000

Thai Food Notes… We thought maybe you would like to know some general information about Thai food. We found some of this post at Wikipedia – and changed it to suit our own writing style. Thai food is known for its balance of five distinct and fundamental flavors in each dish: hot (spicy “phet”), sour [...]

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Thailand Style!

Joy — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:37:30 +0000

Thailand Style! Thai people make their Thai food recipes with care. Thais’ never seem to be in a hurry while preparing food. At times it will take my Thai wife over an hour to make something that in America wouldn’t take more than half that time. Making Thai food slowly and with care is part [...]

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Our Cook is on Vacation for New Years!

Joy — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:50:24 +0000

Our Thai Food Cook, Joy is on Vacation for New Years! Our blogger and world class chef – Joy, went back to see her parents in the northeastern part of Thailand (Esarn, or Isaan) for the New Year’s break! She is safe and has not been affected by the bombs that went off on New [...]

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Sawasdee Ka! (Hello from Thailand)

Joy — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:08:00 +0000

Sawasdee Ka! Sawasdee Ka! I’m “Joy”… This means hello in the language of my home, Thailand. Actually it’s pronounced “Sah wat dee ka”. This blog is for you to learn a little about Thai food and what it is made of, how it looks, how it tastes, and how to order it in a restaurant [...]

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