Every day Thai Foods; Vol. 1

All About Thai

First, I am aThai woman who love to travel and cooking. I was born and grew up in Thailand. In 2006, I traveled 10,000 miles to work and study English in the United States for 2 years. I lived with American family and took care of lo little cute creature with blue eyes and curly blond hair. I fell in love with him right away, the family gave me many opportunities to learn their culture, language, foods and people. It was not easy at first couple of months. However, i got through every things mostly by myself and I really love to look back at the good time I had in Chicago,

Now, I am working for Canadian family, familiar to what I did in Chicago, plus I cook meals everyday for the family. I offered to cook every meals just because I found myself have passionate about foods and bakery. I am spontaneous when it comes to food and eating :p. I have been open up to learn more other culture too.

Most Canadian people are not like spicy foods. They like regular meal with big portion of meats, potato and some vegetable that easily grown here. I personally like to have a lot of vegetable and different type of them. I do like chicken, pork and seafood more than beef. Also I love really hot and spicy foods. My boyfriend can't handle the heat of the hot peppers, so if I have to cook him something it have to be very little hot. He loves other Thai foods that is not real hot or spicy. His favorite dish is Pad Thai and Pad See Eew.

If I have to pick one of these two dish, I love Pad See Eew better. It is easy to prepare and it is not as sweet as the Pad Thai. I do love Pad Thai but I like the way they do not cook it in North America.

Pad See Eew ( Pad = Stir fry, See Eew = Soy Sauce)

Tip; when it comes to stir fry, you need to have a good wok, that can heat up quickly, and especially high heat with high smoking point oil. In this case I used canola oil, but Peanut oil is popular in Thailand for Thai cooking. An important method of Thai cooking, especially Stir fry, you need to prepare all ingredients ahead of time before you turn the heat on. Let's get cooking!

Ingredient;

1 lbs Fresh Rice Noodle, separated and cut in to 2 inch

2 cups of Chinese broccoli, washed and sliced about 1 inch

2 eggs
2 tbsp soy sauce, preferred light soy sauce
3 tbsp dark and sweet soy sauce
1 tbsp oilster sauce, optional*
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp fish sauce, optional*

1 tsp garlic, minced

4 tbsp canola oil

4 oz of meat, thinly sliced, optional*
salt and black pepper




Direction;

Preheat the wok to high heat, add oil and garlic, cook until garlic get gold color but not brown. Add meat if need season with salt and black pepper, cook meat well.

Add eggs and cook until it almost firm add noodle right in the egg and stir quickly, if the noodle are not breaking up, add salt water to help it soft and break up the noodle. Add soy sauce, dark and sweet soy sauce, fish sauce, oilster sauce and sugar, stir it all well. Cook the noodle and the sauce until the noddle get all color of soy sauce evenly and softer. Add the Chinese broccoli, stir for a minute turn the heat off. Serve with Lime and hot pepper chili flakes.