Vatch's Thai Kitchen is a delicious collection of the best of Thai food. The recipes have been written especially for people cooking in a Western kitchen, but using Thai ingredients widely available in supermarkets and Oriental stores. If you haven't cooked Thai before, start with easy nibbles to serve with drinks. Appetizers and party bites include Shrimp wrapped in Crisp Noodles and Vegetable Fritters with Sesame Seeds. Thailand is known for wonderful soups and salads, such as Hot and Sour Soup with Shrimp, Chicken Salad with Mint and Roasted Sesame Seeds, and Vegetable Salad with Peanut Dressing. Try one-dish meals such as favorite Pad Thai (stir-fried noodles), Spicy Duck with Sticky Rice, and Mee Krop (crisp deep-fried noodles). Delicious curries and pickles to tickle your taste buds are Green Curry with Shrimp, and Chicken Curry Noodle. Main dishes include Chicken Stir-fried with Ginger and Pineapple, and Shrimp with Chile and Basil. There are even sweet things and drinks such as Sticky Rice with Mango, Coconut Ice Cream, and Tropical Fruit Drinks.*Written by Vatcharin Bhumichitr, a highly respected chef and author of numerous bestselling books on Thai cooking.*Includes a useful list of websites and mail order sources to help track down suppliers of specialist ingredients and utensils.

Vatch's Thai Kitchen is a delicious collection of the best of Thai food. The recipes have been written especially for people cooking in a Western kitchen, but using Thai ingredients widely available in supermarkets and Oriental stores. If you haven't cooked Thai before, start with easy nibbles to serve with drinks. Appetizers and party bites include Shrimp wrapped in Crisp Noodles and Vegetable Fritters with Sesame Seeds. Thailand is known for wonderful soups and salads, such as Hot and Sour Soup with Shrimp, Chicken Salad with Mint and Roasted Sesame Seeds, and Vegetable Salad with Peanut Dressing. Try one-dish meals such as favorite Pad Thai (stir-fried noodles), Spicy Duck with Sticky Rice, and Mee Krop (crisp deep-fried noodles). Delicious curries and pickles to tickle your taste buds are Green Curry with Shrimp, and Chicken Curry Noodle. Main dishes include Chicken Stir-fried with Ginger and Pineapple, and Shrimp with Chile and Basil. There are even sweet things and drinks such as Sticky Rice with Mango, Coconut Ice Cream, and Tropical Fruit Drinks.

Most Thai's eat at open air specialist food stalls at least once a day. These food stalls are a pivotal part of Thai culture, offering the freshest and best of Thai cooking. This book offers you delicious recipes and provides tips that will give you all you need to take up your wok with confidence.

The definitive Thai cookbook from a YouTube star! Growing up in Thailand, Pailin Chongchitnant spent her childhood with the kitchen as her playground. From a young age, she would linger by the stove, taking in the sight of snowy white coconut being shredded, the smell of lemongrass-infused soups, and the sound of the pestle pounding against the granite mortar. Years later, as a Cordon Bleu–educated chef in San Francisco, Pailin vividly remembered the culinary experiences of her youth. And so, on YouTube, Hot Thai Kitchen was born. Combining her love of teaching with her devotion to Thai food, Pailin immediately connected with thousands of fans who wanted a friend and educator. In this much-anticipated cookbook, Pailin brings her signature warmth and impressive technique to Thai food lovers everywhere. She begins by taking readers on a beautifully photographed trip to Thailand to explore the culinary culture and building blocks central to Thai food. With foolproof and easy-to-follow instructions, Pailin breaks down the key ingredients, flavours, equipment, and techniques necessary to master authentic Thai cooking. Then, she shares her must-make recipes for curries, soups, salads, and stir-fries, including entire chapters on vegetarian and vegan dishes, dips and dipping sauces, and sumptuous Thai desserts. With QR codes to video tutorials placed throughout the book, you’ll be able to connect with Pailin online, too. Both a definitive resource and an extraordinary exploration of Thai cuisine, Hot Thai Kitchen will delight and inspire you in your Thai cooking journey.

'Vatch's Thai Cookbook' is an evocative journey through the main regions of Thailand, in search of the individual sauces, herbs and spices which make up the rich and unmistakable taste of the world's favourite 'exotic' cuisine. The book gives information on how to recognize, choose, prepare and preserve the 39 essential ingredients that lie at the heart of Thai cooking. From Lemon Grass to Pickled Garlic, each ingredient has its own section, with easy-to-follow recipes that highlight its particular pungent flavour. The 130 recipes intersperse these ingredient sections, with such mouthwatering dishes as Hot and Sour Soup with Prawns and Lemon, Fried Fish with Crispy Garlic and Steamed Mushroom Curry with Sweet Basil. This culinary journey is set in its cultural context. Each chapter begins with an introduction to a different part of the country associated with the particular ingredients which follow, including some of the lesser-known parts of Thailand; the North East, the South and the Gulf Islands. The book is a valuable guide not only to the cook, but also to the more adventurous traveller in search of a better understanding of the country and its cooking.

The countries of Southeast Asia boast some of the most vibrant, flavorful cooking in the world. Renowned Thai-born chef Vatcharin Bhumichitr (known as "Vatch") takes us on an insider's culinary tour of Thailand and its neighbors in this irresistible collection. With more than one hundred recipes that range from pungent crab to heavenly pumpkin and coconut soup, Vatch's book overflows with fresh ingredients, exuberant flavors, and irresistible specialties of the countries covered--Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore. Get ready for a spicy, spectacular journey!

Only one chef has proved her mastery over celebrity chef Bobby Flay in the Food Network's Pad Thai Throwdown challenge: Nongkran Daks. Now, the master chef and owner of Virginia's renowned Thai Basil restaurant shares her secrets for creating Thai cuisine's most beloved dishes at home—using ingredients that can be found in most grocery stores. In Nong's Thai Kitchen, Daks teams up with veteran food writer Alexandra Greeley to show readers how to prepare classic Thai recipes such as: Chicken with Thai Basil Shrimp Soup in Coconut Milk Spicy Beef Salad with Mint Leaves Roasted Duck Curry Thai food is famous for its balance of sweet, sour, salty and hot flavors. This unique symphony of tastes and sensations is why Thai restaurants and cookbooks have entered the mainstream. What most people don't realize is that once elusive Thai ingredients such as fish sauce, lemongrass, coconut milk, cilantro, basil and shallots are now easily found, making it easy to prepare mouthwatering Thai dishes at home for far less money than they would cost in a restaurant. All the recipes in this essential Thai cookbook are healthy, easy to make and inexpensive, so step into Nong's Thai Kitchen and begin a culinary journey to the tropical heart of Asia!