Food/Cooking thread

[Woodsey]

Some of the weird and wonderful fruit out here, they are mostly decent. This is dragonffruit, mangosteen and I forget the third one.

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[GreekStein]

no such thing as a standard Pad Thai! Every place has their own variation and style of it!

Have you ever tried 'Pad See Eu'? If not, try it.

[exstream]

Some of the weird and wonderful fruit out here, they are mostly decent. This is dragonffruit, mangosteen and I forget the third one.

Rambutan

[exstream]

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[outragous76]

yo foodies

Anyone got  a good way of cooking spinach, when I boil mine it always has a weird after taste, but I love it from restaurants

Cheers

[exstream]

Cook it like Cut, Palazzo.

Single cream and egg mixed in with the spinach in the pan.

[Laxie]

I'm making a summer berries pie and not sure which way is best for keeping the base crust from going soggy.  Should I blind bake the base first or just cook the whole pie on the bottom rack of the oven?

[Delboy]

Blind bake base first.

par-cook berries in thickened (arrowroot or cornflour) syrup before putting together.

[Laxie]

Blind bake base first.

par-cook berries in thickened (arrowroot or cornflour) syrup before putting together.

Any chance you could check this thread during the day while you're at work, please and thanks?  I've already done it on a wing and a prayer, by chilling the rolled out pastry right before filling and baking it on the bottom rack of the oven.  Will let ya know how soppy it is in a bit because Jack's struggling to wait out the full 3 hour cool down phase.

[Laxie]

Crust was actually quite nice.  Base wasn't soggy at all, but the filling was loose.  Will try the par cooking trick next time and see how we go.  Cheers!

[Woodsey]

I love Som Tam so much (think it is the version with the peanuts I have eaten...was in Bangkok).  Funny even now I crave it some times.  Given the breadth of stuff you have eaten on this trip I am pretty surprised you don't like it although I guess it could be an acquired taste.

Ok re-tried Som Tam Thai yesterday and it was in fact ok, it's not something I would eat on its own, it's something I would share as a side dish probably. Didn't like the egg in it though as it was salted egg.

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[Woodsey]

Order a Pad kra pao moo woodsey! One of my favourites.

Ok had the pork one, the chicken one was better but I think that was probably down to the restaurant before being better rather than a chicken v pork thing.

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[GreekStein]

I love Som Tam so much (think it is the version with the peanuts I have eaten...was in Bangkok).  Funny even now I crave it some times.  Given the breadth of stuff you have eaten on this trip I am pretty surprised you don't like it although I guess it could be an acquired taste.

Ok re-tried Som Tam Thai yesterday and it was in fact ok, it's not something I would eat on its own, it's something I would share as a side dish probably. Didn't like the egg in it though as it was salted egg.

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The thais love this.

I'd bet if you asked most to choose only one dish to have the rest of their lives, this would be the winner.

It's also known as Papaya-pok-pok I think.

I'm not a fan personally.

[Woodsey]

Few other things

Some sort of omelette thing that wasn't actually an omelette  

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Omelette with pork

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Red curry with beef

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Curry accompaniment  

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Some pork dish with lime that was sour as fuck

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Fish cakes ok nom nom  

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Satay pork

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Coconut curry, this one was pretty disappointing actually, worst one ive had, not much flavour.

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I like this pic I took in the market  

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[GreekStein]

Order a Pad kra pao moo woodsey! One of my favourites.

Ok had the pork one, the chicken one was better but I think that was probably down to the restaurant before being better rather than a chicken v pork thing.

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U definitely prefer Moo to Gai but just comes down to personal preference.

wtf is that egg? and why is there sweet chili sauce there!?