One of my favourite things to eat in Thailand is nam kaeng sai (น้ำแข็งใส), or mixed ice desserts. These refreshing bowls are typically comprised of your choice of an impressive variety of toppings combined with shaved ice (or sometimes crushed ice), coconut milk, and simple syrup. These toppings can include…
Vegan Thai Recipes
From pad thai to gaeng kua kling, these vegan thai food recipes are made with authentic Thai ingredients and knowledge gathered from my many travels to Thailand and numerous hours researching the country's cuisine.
Thai Street Noodles: Basic Vegan Noodle Stock
This is part one of what I intend to make a multi-part series on Thai noodle soups. But first, the foundation. Lay the groundwork with a flavoursome, quality stock and you’ll be building top notch noodle bowls in no time! Noodle soup broths are typically bone based, but vegetarian vendors…
ขนมบ้าบิ่น Kanom Baa Bin: Thai Coconut Cake
Kanom is often a word used to prepend names of mainly sweet snacks in Thai language, hence we have kanom chan, kanom krok (the coconut half-globe pancakes that every tourist seems to discover), and many more. This isn’t a hard and fast rule, however. For instance one exception is the…
Vegan Pat Macaroni
Pat macaroni is a Thai dish of pasta sauced with various condiments that include sriracha, soy sauce (I use seasoning sauce) and ketchup. Yes, ketchup. This stir-fry (pat/pad = stir-fried) lacks a strong hit of chilies, unless you make it spicy by preference, so it’s a popular dish for children…
Kitchen Sink Vegan Khao Tom
First, hush, you people who know how to be smooth enough in real life to build relationships face to face. Second, this is the story of me meeting someone from the internet on another continent and the dinner they cooked for me. Third, it’s not really story because I will…
Thai Vegan Apple and Corn Som Tum Salad
This Thai vegan apple and corn som tum salad is an alternative to the usual green papaya based som tum we all know and love. Variations in Thailand aren’t uncommon, especially with regards to fruit. I’ve enjoyed both corn and fruit adaptations of this ubiquitous Thai salad in past, so…
Vegan Kaeng Liang แกงเลียงมังสวิรัติ
I first tried kaeng liang at one of my favourite restaurants in Bangkok, and haven’t been able to shake the memory of the flavour since. After bemoaning the difficulties of sourcing lemon basil (bai maenglak, hairy basil, hoary basil) in England, the friend I was dining with flipped quickly through…
Khanom Chan ขนมชั้น Thai Layered Dessert
Khanom chan is unlike any Western dessert you’re likely to come across, but if you like sticky and tacky East Asian sweets then this is most certainly a recipe worth your time and effort. Yes, it’s time consuming – once the dough is prepared, each of the many layers is…
Nam Som Prik Dong: Thai Chillies Pickled in Vinegar (น้ำส้มพริกดอง)
Found on each table at every noodle-hawking stall in Thailand is a caddy of condiments, seasonings to add flavour balance based on a diner’s personal tastes. Granulated sugar for sweetness, fish sauce (perhaps with chillies and lime) to add saltiness, roasted chilli powder for heat, and to impart sourness is…
Vegan Pad Gaprao (Pat Kaprow – ผัดกะเพรา)
After years of visiting Thailand, writing about its food and the annual vegetarian festival, I decided it was time to try to learn some of the language. So hello from Bangkok, where I am sitting in a small Asoke flat scattered with notes of how to say and write statements…
Seven Thai vegan foods to try in bprà thêet thai (Thailand)
เจ, pronounced a little bit like the halfway point between ‘jay’ and ‘jee,’ roughly translates to ‘vegan’ in Thai. Each year a nine day vegetarian festival is held across the country, more pronounced in some areas than others, that celebrates a je diet. The event is large and unmissable if you are…
Sweet Potato Balls (Kanom Kai Nok Krata) ขนมไข่นกกระทา
Despite a common belief by many Westerners that vegetarianism is impossible to communicate in Thailand, and that fish sauce goes in everything, the Thai language has a word to indicate veganism that is universally understood. เจ translates in English to je, or jay, and means no animal products. The concept…
