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…
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 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…
Pad Gaprao, Vegan Style
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…
Stir Fried Pickled Mustard Greens With Tofu
I first tried this stir fry in Phuket after randomly pointing to a few items on a vegan buffet so large that my decision-making gears nearly broke (and they barely function to begin with). I recognised the flavour of pickled mustard greens and excitedly asked for the name of the…
Some vegan Bangkok eats and treats
Less with the words and more with the photos! Here are some snaps and vids of vegan finds around Bangkok during the 2014 Thailand Vegetarian Festival. MBK Center Vegan Stalls Most shopping centres in Bangkok (and there are plenty) put on some sort of spread or event related to the…
Thai herbs: a basil Primer
Thai cooking utilises three type of basil: Thai basil, holy basil, and lemon basil. The latter is the most difficult to find outside of Thailand and the first in the list the most commonly available. Thais treat them as three separate entities and so these basils are generally not interchangeable…
Recommended Thai Cooking Resources in the UK
Many Thai books populate my cookbook shelf and some are more useful than others. The widely available vegan Thai friendly Thai cookbooks are not very good, so I mainly stick with the well known and accurate collections and references listed below. by David Thompson. This is the number one English…
