The very best recipes from the Thai city obsessed with food and
brimming with vibrant flavors.
This beautiful book features seventy recipes for dishes that define
Bangkok, so you can capture the city's magic in your own home. Bangkok
is any explorer's dream and a food-lover's paradise. In the Thai
capital, most food is still sold along the ancient canals that
crosshatch the city, and on street corners, from mobile carts and inside
its bustling markets.
Of course, you'll find the best green curry and pad Thai of your life in
this dynamic city. But Bangkok holds infinite secrets for anyone truly
passionate about food. This comprehensive cookbook follows one culinary
day, with sections marked for Early, Mid, and Late. It's the second in
our Local series, which unites intimate food knowledge with stunning
gonzo photography.
From the Early chapter, you might cook up some fried taro cakes (kanom
pak gad) or an egg in tamarind sauce (kai luk keuy) or rice soup with
barramundi (kao tom pla kra pong). Then Mid is all about lunch and
afternoon snackery: orange sour soup with prawns and mixed vegetables
(gaeng som pak gung sod), papaya salad (som tum) and fried rice with
pineapple (kao pad sapparod). Finally, it's Late. That means jungle
curry with pork (gaeng pa mu), late-night stir-fried crab with black
pepper (pu pad prik thai dum) and bananas in coconut cream (gluay buat
chee). It's high time you tried Thai.
