Joy’s Thai Food Recipe & Dessert Blog!

Prepare:

7-10 sliced chicken breast
All purpose flour
1 tbsp. white pepper powder
1 egg
Vegetable oil

2 tbsp. sliced shallot
2 tbsp. sliced coriander and scallion
1 tsp. chilli powder
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. lime juice
1 tbsp. roasted and crushed uncooked rice
1 tsp. sugar (optional)
5-10 mint leaves

Cooking instructions:

1. Soak the chicken into the salted water for 10-20 minutes. After that remove and dry the chicken well with paper towel.

2. Dip the chicken in the egg that you already beat (Use spoon to beat it and make it less bubbles as possible0. After that drop the chicken into flour. Then, drop it into the egg again. Last, drop it in the flour for the second time. Do this piece by piece.

First thing is to fry the chicken. There is no right portion to prepare the tempura flour as all purpose flour would give the best result itself. You will only need to mix the flour with white pepper powder, add more or less in the way to like it.

3. Now, turn on the pan with maximum heat. Add a lot of vegetable oil (or just enough to soak the whole piece of chicken). When the pan and vegetable oil is really really hot, drop the chicken in and lower the stove down to minimum heat. Fry the chicken until the flour turn gold then remove in from the pan.

4. Next, add fried chicken a big bowl. Add shallot, sliced coriander and scallion, mint.

5. In a different bowl, add fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, roasted and crushed uncooked rice and chilli powder. Now pour it in a bowl of fried chicken.  Mix quickly and arrange in a plate.

6. Serve it with hot jasmine rice and sliced tomatoes.

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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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Jason over at Isaanstyle.blogspot.com has sent Joy’s Thai Food blog a lot of traffic over the couple years we’ve been in existence.

If you haven’t seen Jason’s blog, head on over. He is an Australian guy teaching in Thailand’s Northeast – the Isaan region. He writes from the point of view of a foreigner coming to terms with all that’s different between western and eastern ways. He writes a LOT. He has a ton of photos.

You may not agree with him when he rants – but then that’s your choice… he really gives exceptional coverage of what it’s like to live in Ubon Ratchathani among Thais.

Cheers Jason!

Vern & Joy

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In Thailand of course!

Nice atmosphere can be found at many Thai restaurants that would cost a lot of money to find in the USA or elsewhere.

It was a special night out for, what else? Thai food!

We rode around town and looked for a place we hadn’t eaten at yet. Then I remembered a place on a hill within a kilometer of where we live. We pulled up to the large open-air pavilion which I thought was “it”. When we were looking for a place to sit down Joy noticed a very large area filled with bamboo huts down by some small ponds. JACKPOT!

We walked down the hill. There were only two other groups eating and it was very quiet. The mosquitoes were at “level insanity” so we asked them to light “the coil” and that brought an end to the skeeters.

Fried rice with squid, morning glory with garlic, fried rice with everything (Joys)

We ordered kow padt Pla Meuk (fried rice with squid) for me and Joy ordered kow pad nam prig long reu-uh (fried rice with special made chili sauce, dried shrimp, side veggies, salted egg, and fried chicken. No, Joy wasn’t eating for 2 or 3, it didn’t amount to more than my fried rice in volume. Then, we got my favorite for a vegetable – Pad pak boong – stir fried morning glory with chilis and garlic. YUM.

We topped it off with Pepsi and a bucket of ice.

We chose one of the bamboo huts without chairs – it’s just a sit on the raised floor type hut. We could see the mosquitoes easier that way and it’s easier for Joy to have a nap after dinner too. Isn’t she the cutest…? HA! She doesn’t know I put this photo on here – she’ll make me take it down if she sees it – so enjoy while you can.

A really cozy place. The food was quite good too.

Thai food is really the best food on the planet. Thai food in Thailand? Well, I don’t have to tell you – is amazing. I’ve lived on it for four years straight now -with only the occasional pizza from in town because it’s so prohibitively expensive! This whole meal, with ambience was just 185 baht – about $5 USD. That’s expensive considering how much dinner usually costs – just 75-80 baht for both of us. So tonight we splurged on upscale Thai food dining. Tomorrow? Back tot he 80 baht dinners – which are almost as good, but lack the atmosphere.

In Thailand it is quite OK to fall asleep after your meal in one of these bamboo huts. The ones that float on the river are even better. We have some photos from that type of hut while we were in Isaan (northeast Thailand) that I will have to find sometime to share here...

When are you coming to Thailand?

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Thai Food Soup: แกงส้มปลา Gang Som Pla (Fish in Sour Soup)

แกงส้มปลา
Gang Som Pla
(Fish in Sour Soup)

Prepare:

1 whole fish (clean and cut)
1 cup tamarind juice (non-dried tamarind+hot water)
1 cup sliced raw papaya
1 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. olive oil
2 cups water

Paste:
1 whole fish (small size)
7 dried red chili peppers (throw away the seed)
3 galingale
5 red onions
1 tbsp. shrimp paste
2 tbsp. LOBO gang som paste

Cooking Instructions:

1. Ground all the paste ingredients together.

2. Boil the fish for 10 minutes. Take its meat for 1/2 cup. Mix fish meat with the paste.

3. In a different pot, boil the water and add the paste from number 1. Until it’s boiling, add tamarind juice. Try 1/2 cup first. If you like it very sour then add more.

4. Add fish and papaya. Cook for 15 minutes.

8. In a bowl, prepare fresh vegetables (any kind). Pour hot soup with fish over the vegetables. This way will make the vegetable cruchy.

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