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Ox-tail Soup is Incredible at this restaurant in Khon Kaen, Thailand

Oxtail Soup – Amazing Food at ‘Raan Soop Hang Wua’ (Khon Kaen)

A feast of Thailand’s best local food awaits in Khon Kaen – this is ‘Raan Soop Hang Wua’ (ร้านซุปหางวัว), and Grandma’s oxtail soup cooking mastery here is astounding. This recipe for oxtail soup is enough to make any lover of…

The chef at a local restaurant uses chicken feet in her recipe for papaya salad

Chicken Feet in Laos-Style Papaya Salad (ตำตีนไก่) at Som Tam Pann

Papaya Salad ส้มตำ (“som tam”) is easily the most well-known food in all of North-Eastern Thailand. You’ll find incredible variety and often very unique local flavors by trying all the versions you can find of this one, freshly made food!…

Incredible grilled chicken and som tam, for a classic lunchtime feast of North East Thailand (Esaan) best food.

Gai Yang Preecha (Grilled Chicken) – Khon Kaen University’s Best Food

One of the most ultimate lunchtime feasts in Thailand is the combination of Thai grilled chicken, papaya salad, and white sticky rice. In this article I want to show you Khon Kaen University’s best restaurant, serving some of the best…

Excellent Isaan Food at Wang Lang Market

UPDATE 5 March 2017: Unfortunately this restaurant has closed indefinitely, I am very sad about it too. I have chosen to keep this blog post online to remember such a legendary Thai restaurant in Bangkok. One of my favorite markets…

Grilled Fish in Bangkok at Laab Udon (ร้านลาบอุดร)

If there’s one thing I remember most about staying in Udon Thani, it’s grilled fish. Not quite in Udon Thani, but instead just off the Surasak BTS in downtown Bangkok, Laab Udon (ร้านลาบอุดร), named after Udon Thani, serves some pretty…

Nam Tok Recipe (น้ำตกเนื้อ): How To Make Delicious Thai Waterfall Beef Salad

Let’s say you have a big hunk of beef or steak: What delicious Thai food should you cook? There are plenty of wonderful dishes you could choose, but nam tok neua (น้ำตกเนื้อ), which in Thai translates to waterfall beef or…

Toasted Rice Powder Recipe – Khao Khua (ข้าวคั่ว)

Khao khua (ข้าวคั่ว), or toasted rice powder, is a common ingredient used in numerous dishes in northeastern Thailand (Isaan) and throughout the country of Laos. Since I’ve been making, and since my aim is to write and publish many more recipes,…

Fish Hotpot in Udon Thani at Baan Pla Joom (ร้าน บ้านปลาจุ่ม)

When I spent some time in Udon Thani, I went on a fish eating spree, enjoying a whole tilapia nearly everyday for both lunch and dinner. Within the city there are numerous restaurants that prepare fresh fish in a variety…

Outstanding Fish Laab (ลาบปลา) in Udon Thani

In Udon Thani, freshwater tilapia is one of the most popular things to eat. One of the most well known restaurants in the city, often considered the top restaurant for eating pla nin (ปลานิล), tilapia, is Taw Baw Pla Pao (ท่อบ่อปลาเผา). Udon…

How to Make Thai Sticky Rice (and How To Eat It)

We’re about to learn how to make Thai sticky rice. But first let me first tell you a story… Before I ever came to Thailand when I was in university, I sometimes went to a Thai restaurant in the US, and…

100% Beef (and some Pig Breasts) in Udon Thani

I really love people who are passionate about what they do… especially when they are cooks. On my latest visit to Udon Thani, in the northern part of the Isaan region of Thailand, I went to a restaurant known as Laab…

Udon Miang Pla Pao – Incredibly Fresh Fish in Udon Thani

I’ve been a lover of fresh fish since before I can remember. In Thailand, especially inland away from the ocean, one of the most popular fish to eat is pla nin, or tilapia. It’s farmed extensively throughout Thailand, and especially if…

Utterly Good Som Tam and Grilled Chicken in Ubon Ratchathani

As I’m sure you’ve heard me say more than a few times on this blog, there are few greater combinations than som tam (green papaya salad) and gai yang (grilled chicken). It’s a combo that never gets boring. Something about…

Grilled Chicken Perfection in Khon Kaen (ไก่ย่างระเบียบเขาสวนกวาง)

Isaan (Isan), the northeastern region of Thailand, is home to some of the most well known Thai grilled chicken, and som tam (green papaya) recipes in the country. I spent some time in Khon Kaen (ขอนแก่น), one of the 4 major…

Isan Food at Gai Yang Klang Bueng (ไก่ย่างกลางบึง) in Bangkok

The other day we headed over to Gai Yang Klang Bueng (ไก่ย่างกลางบึง), a lovely restaurant adjacent to Bangkok’s Seacon Square shopping mall, and right next to the weekend Rot Fai Market (so you could have dinner here before going to the…

SP Chicken (SP ไก่ย่าง) – Small Birds, But Flavors You’ll Love

Greeting you as you enter is the unique SP Chicken (SP ไก่ย่าง) grill, a modified stand up charcoal rotisserie that has been engineered to roast a chicken to perfection. As the birds go round and round, they get heat from the…

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