Coconuts  in  thai  if   color of Green ,  you can eat  water and   But  if  old coconuts , You can make to  Coconut milk.  ( ka-ti)  Coconut milk is the rich base for many Thai curries and sweet dishes. Coconut milk or ‘ga-ti’ is traditionally made by mixing the grated meat of a ripe coconut with warm water and then squeezing out the juice. Now there are machines that grate and press coconut to produce the white, sweet-aroma coconut milk. Coconut milk comes in a can for convenient use.

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Taro is a root vegetable used in Asian cooking in desserts and as a snack. It is starchy, similar to many other starchy roots such as Cassava and if the recipe calls for Taro, you can often substitute Cassava.

Store fresh in a cool dark cupboard, freezing will soften the texture, so if you can avoid it it is better

Essential Thai Ingredients  All of these can be purchased at Thai Food Market

So you’ve decided you want to prepare your own authentic Thai meal. Recipes are numerous and easily found, either on the internet or in that new Thai cookbook you’ve recently purchased. But in perusing the various recipes, you’ve discovered that many of the ingredients sound unfamiliar.

Don’t feel intimidated. Many supermarkets now carry an extensive supply of ethnic ingredients, as the popularity of such cuisines is steadily growing. But there are still quite a few obscure items that can only be found at Asian supermarkets or specialty shops. I have attempted to provide a comprehensive list of the most common and some uncommon ingredients and items used in Thai cooking. Once you are familiar with some of them, hopefully the task of preparing a Thai meal will seem less daunting and more enjoyable. After all, prepared correctly, a Thai meal is a glorious adventure of satisfying

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This is ‘Mu Yong’, literally frizzy pork, also known as pork hair, or pork fibers. You may have seen it in the snacks section of Asian grocers and wondered whether it’s food or for scrubbing plates clean!
It’s made from oven dried pork, the pork is rubbed into fibres or hairs. It has a very savoury taste, similar in taste to barbecue flavour crisps/chips, but without the artificial flavourings. It’s often eaten just as a snack, but it’s also used to add a savoury flavour to some Thai dishes

This is a salty bean sauce made with yellow soya beans. You can see it used to add a salty contrast taste in todays recipe. Once you open the bottle, keep it in the fridge