This is a delicious, slightly salt, slightly sweet, very filling dessert from Thailand. The salt balances the sweetness of the sauce and ripe mango. The sticky (glutinous) rice is like a solid rice pudding base to the dish.

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Taro in Coconut Sauce or Puerk Loy Gaiw in Thia  is  Taro Coconut Milk , Sweet .  I really must get around to taking a fresh photo. This one looks so miserable.

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This dessert is ‘worms’ (really dessert noodles made from sticky rice flour), together with Thai rambutan fruit, all swimming in coconut sauce and rambutan juice. To make the noodle, you will need a piping bag to extrude the noodle mix into the ‘worm’ shape. Serve with plenty of the juice and coconut sauce, for the photograph we used only a little so you can see the green noodle, but the dessert is better if you drown the noodles in the sauce. If you can’t find rose water, you can change the flavour to vanilla by using vanilla essence in water.

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This is a typical sweet coconut and bean dessert from Thailand, it is black soya beans soaked, steamed, and served in a sweet coconut sauce. This is an ideal vegetarian dish as the beans are full of protein and it can be used to follow a vegetable dish. It is even suitable for vegans.

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