These parcels are made from fried pork and herbs, wrapped in a pastry made from steamed rice flour and starch and served with a sweet and sour sauce. The pastry is cooked separately from the filling and it’s very different from the cooking methods you may be use to. The actual pastry mix is liquid when uncooked. In order to cook it, you need to tie a cheese cloth or clean handkerchief tightly stretched over the top of a pan of water.

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I might add this to a fake food category, since we like fake food in Thailand. These are spring rolls, filled with rice and crab sticks to look like sushi. (If you speak Thai, visit kruaklaibaan.com where the original idea for this recipe is).

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In our house we eat this as a ‘gop-gam’ dish (a snack dish to eat at the end of the day with beer or whiskey), but usually they’re made smaller and eaten as an appetizer. The pastry is a basic shortcrust pastry that is baked separately into cup shapes. The fillings are made later with Thai flavours, curries and spicy fish etc.. In the photograph above you can see two sizes, in the 3 flavours we made, but feel free to experiment.

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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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We don’t use bread much in Thailand, its strictly for snacks and treats and this recipe is no different. Each square of bread is coated with seasoned pork mince and egg and grilled.

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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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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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Skewered pork & green pepper (like a Kebab) but served the way we eat it at home, with a chilli and garlic sauce.

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