A mere day after my recent post relating my ambivalence towards desserts comprising things floating in coconut milk, I was forced to eat my words.
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Thailand Food Exploration: Rotee
Roti is something that may be familiar to you from the breads section of a UK “Indian” restaurant menu. It is a round, flat, slightly layered bread, which is good for soaking up curries.
It clearly shares roots with Roti Canai, something ambrosial I first encountered in Malaysia. This is a puffy, crispy flat bread which is heavenly dipped in dahl, fish curry or topped with condensed milk.
So when we passed a Rotee stall near the lower end of Phra Pok Klao Road, Chiang Mai, by a Siam Bank, I was irresistibly drawn to it. The options were fairly limited, standard (which comes topped with condensed milk), egg (where an egg is broken into it and cooked), banana (filled with sliced banana) and a few other choices which I think were mainly combinations of the above.
Thailand Food Exploration: Love at First Bite
Love at First Bite is a bakery café in Chiang Mai.
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Thailand Food Exploration: Khao Soy
One of THE dishes of Northern Thailand is khao soy.
Thailand Food Exploration: Classic Home Cooking (Cooking School)
During a recent visit to Chiang Mai, one of the activities I most wanted to undertake was a cookery course.
Chiang Mai is chock-full of cookery schools, each offering to teach you how to cook a variety of typical Thai dishes.
After checking out Trip Advisor and rummaging round a few websites, we opted for Classic Home Cooking. The price was good (around £15 a head), the reviews excellent, it included a market trip and it also allowed you to select your own dishes from a series of categories.
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