Thursday, November 20, 2008

Ladna - ราดหน้า

The Next food that I want to present is Ladna. It is a type of noodle.


Picture From :
http://www.naachim.com/?contentid=contentid-080125025510843

One of the great advantages of thai food, especially thai noodle is : You can also get protien cabohidrate vitamin in the same time when you eat it.

Ingredients:
  1. Pork
  2. Chinese vegetable (คะน้า)
  3. fresh Water
  4. Boar Bone Soup Stock (น้ำต้มกระดูกหมู)
  5. Thai pepper
  6. Garlic
  7. Soybean Sauce (ซีอิ๊ว)
  8. Vegetable oil
  9. Soybean
  10. Salt
  11. Tapioca (แป้งมัน)
  12. noodle
How to Cook :
  1. Ferment the pork by mixing soybean sauce, tapioca, thai pepper and a little vegetable oil together.
  2. Put the Slice pork into the composition and mix it.
  3. Leave it for an half of hour.
  4. fry the noodle with oil and soybean sauce until the noodle is coat with the soybean sauce and leave it.
  5. Mix the Tapioca with water. leave it
  6. Stir-fry the soybean and garlic in the oil.
  7. Put Chinese vegetable in the pan and stir it then put a few cup of the water.
  8. When it boil, put the composition of pork.
  9. When the water is boil again, drop the composition of tapioca into the pan until you feel it is glutinous. While you drop the composition of tapioca, you should stir it all the time.
  10. Put the noodle on the plate and then put the composition onto it.
P.S.: noodle can be replaced by rice.
Pork can be replaced by any meat you like.
Carrots can be used.

Som Tum - ส้มตำ


Next thai food is Som Tum or Someone call Papaya Pok Pok.

Ingredients :
  1. Papaya : the fresh and green
  2. Lime
  3. Tomato : the small one
  4. Fish Sauce
  5. A non-dried ripe tamarind (มะขามเปียก)
  6. Guinea-pepper (พริกขี้หนู)
  7. Garlic
  8. Fermented fish sauce (น้ำปลาร้า)
  9. Vigna (ถั่วฝักยาว)
  10. A morning glory (ผักบุ้ง)

How to cook :

  1. Peel the skin of papaya and chop it into the strings.
  2. Pound the garlic ,guinea-pepper and the papaya string in the mortar
  3. Flavour by Lime juice, Fermented fish sauce, A non-dried ripe tamarind and fish sauce.
  4. Put the half cut of tomato and vigna and pound it

P.S. : Mix everything in the mortar and pound not to much.

: Papaya can be replaced by carrots.

: increase or decrease the ingredients as the taste you like.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thai Food : Tom Yum Kung













Picture from :

http://kanchanapisek.or.th/kp8/culture/bkk/bkk515A.html

The first thai food which is very pround to present is Tom Yum Kung.

The ingredients is:

  1. Shrimp (กุ้ง)
  2. Straw Mushroom (เห็ดฟาง) : half cut (หั่นครึ่ง)
  3. Galingale (ข่า) : Slice into thin (หั่นบาง)
  4. Kaffir Lime (ใบมะกรูด) : tear (ฉีก)
  5. Lemon Grass (ตะไคร้) : Slice in two inches (หั่นเป็นท่อน)
  6. Guinea-pepper (พริกขี้หนู) : little Pound (ทุบ)
  7. Coriander (ผักชี).
  8. Chicken Bone Soup Stock (น้ำต้มโครงไก่)
  9. Fish Sauce (น้ำปลา)
  10. Lime Juice

How to cook:

  1. Pick out the shrimp hull and rinse it. (แกะเปลือกกุ้งแล้วล้าง)
  2. Rinse the straw mushroom. (ล้างเหดฟาง)
  3. Boil the Soup Stock.
  4. Put the lemon grass, Galingale and shrimp in the pot and wait until it is boil.
  5. Then put the straw mushroom, Kaffir Lime and fish sauce in the pot.
  6. Pour to the bowl and put Guinea-pepper and lime juice to flavour.
  7. Dress by Coriander.

Eat with cooked rice.

Thai Jasmine rice is recommended. It is best for Thai Food.

P.S. Kung is thai word mean Shrimp. So you can replace it with chicken, fish or meat you like.

Thai Food













(Picture from
http://www.thailandvoyage.com/tourinformation/Sightseeingtour/dinner_dance.htm)

Thailand is the one of most beautiful and interesting country to visit. Visitor can find the various culture in Thailand. Each culture has its own style and very charming. One of the very interesting thing is food. There are many kinds of thai food which is seperated by the region.
Thai food has its own advantages and very charming. Most of thai food is hot and spicy. So the consumer should be careful if they want to try. But its taste is very good for health and it can help you to relax. The ingredient that is very good for health and used in thai food is Herb. So Thai food is good for health.
This article will show how to cook thai food.