The black fried century eggs make this quite a stunning looking plate, but the eggs are not the main taste, the spicy chicken is. Eat this as a side dish to Thai rice, served with Thai sweet basil leaves.

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The rich, unctuous texture and pronounced fruity flavor of a dry gewürztraminer from France’s Alsace region will provide a lovely contrast to these strong, spicy flavors.

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A very unusual soup, slightly spicy with the taste of cinnamon. The eggs make it a very filling meal rather than a soup, often served with rice to pad it into a full meal. This is something of an aquired taste, if cinnamon flavored boiled eggs are not for you, you may prefer to try one of the more common Thai dishes first and work up to this.
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Everyone in the world loves fried chicken and Thailand is no different. This recipe is how the Thais eat fried chicken, its slightly different from the KFC fast food you get worldwide, the flavour comes from the chicken not the coating! For healthy eating, it’s better to mix this with one of the healthier Thai dishes, but its fine as a treat. For best results use a good quality corn fed chicken.

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I have a small confession: this recipe was invented by MacDonalds in Thailand for their Thai customers. Thailand people eat mainly rice rather than bread and a burger with a bread bun isn’t like their normal food. So MacDonalds invented the sticky rice burger, where the bun is replaced by as glutinous (sticky) rice patty. This recipe uses the same trick, if you are not familar with sticky rice, read the ingredients section of this site – you cannot use regular rice, and it must be prepared by steaming.

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During Halloween, if you kill a chicken, it will rise from the dead and the chicken claws will try to take back it’s flesh from your plate. BOO! Well that’s what I tell small children anyway, we celebrate Halloween as a bit of western fun even in Thailand, this dish is chicken dumplings with fried chicken feet. You can eat it all, if it doesn’t eat you first.

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The kebabs could be from anywhere in the world, but the sauce is Thai through and through! The sauce is a seafood sauce made with fresh chopped spicy chillies. The seafood flavouring really broadens the flavours of the grilled meat and the spiciness adds bite.

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This is quite a time consuming pie to make, but the results are well worth it. The main flavours are chicken and rosemary, with shitake mushrooms, leeks and carrots adding to the bulk. The sauce is made with cream to blend and merge the flavours. In Thailand many people don’t eat cream or milk, because they didn’t drink milk when they were infants and have lost the enzyme that digests milk. So you may prefer to omit the cream.

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I’m tempted to create another category called ‘Pies & Pasties’, since I’ve made several recently! This pastie contains beansprouts, chicken and vegetables and is a nice way to eat Thai food in a falang way.

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Yes we eat chicken nuggets in Thailand it’s a very popular food, although they are a Thai version of the western snack. I made these because today is domino day in Holland, where they topple million of dominoes to make a new world record in domino toppling. I’ve made them in the shape of dominoes for the photograph and laid them out like a circle of toppled dominoes.

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