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Summary: The BEST Thai cookbook I own.
Review: Easy, tasty, almost impossible to wreck recipes. All ingredients found at local supermarkets (then again live in the SF Bay Area). Get it and try the Thai Toast, you wont be unhappy. The one thing this book dosent have is recipes for the curry pastes, it uses all premade store bought stuff, BUT if youve ever tried to get all the ingredients for your own, and then it didnt come out right any way you wont mind this. Just add more garlic to the sauces and it will be great!! The Green Curry Chicken will forever be my favourite! mmmmmmmm good!
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Summary: Great Thai Cookbook!!
Review: I love Thai food and was looking for an authentic cookbook with great recipes. I've made about a dozen of the recipes in this cookbook so far and have enjoyed every one of them (especially the ground pork with eggplant and the ground beef with noodles!). Additionally, the recipes can be whipped up in a very short period of time and the photos are lovely.
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Summary: Yummy, very simple and concise, high quality photos
Review: I love this book!!!!!!! Let me count the ways:1) The recepies are very fast and simple and contain no ingredients that you can't find. 2) The receipies taste correct and are excellent!!!! (given #1 and the fact that even some gourmet recipies I have tried don't taste correct I was shocked to find this!) 3) It comes with a clear plastic book cover that made the thing almost indistructible no matter how much fish sauce I splatter on it. 4) Hi quality, beautiful color photos for every dish make it easy to get the presentation right. It's also great for window shopping if you can't decide what to make for dinner! (every photo will make you drool) The book is written in both Chinese and English.
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Summary: Amazingly easy, simple, and very yummy recipes
Review: I received this book a couple years back as a gift from somebody who knew I liked to cook simple, fast stuff, and also knew I liked Thai food. It has turned out to be my favorite cookbook so far, with a 95% success rate for the recipes I've tried. (One recipe, I forget which one, was kind of boring.) My only previous exposure to cooking Thai food before I got this book was a class that I took that focused on Thai curries. There are not a lot of curries in this book, which is fine with me. I have tried about 25% of the recipes in the book so far, many of them 5 times or more. I do have to comment on another reviewer's review below, his review is titled "not a great cookbook." I heartily disagree. He complained that the recipes were too salty. NONE of the recipes in the book call for ANY salt! Of course most DO call for fish sauce. Not all fish sauce is the same, if your fish sauce is too salty, switch to another brand or use less of it. As an introduction to Thai cooking, this book is just great! If curries are the most important thing to you, then you can probably find a better book for yourself. There are a few curry recipes in here, and they are good, but it's not the main focus. Most of the recipes in the book only have about 3 steps, and often even these steps are very easy ones. The pictures are useful and pleasant, and the pages are glossy enough to survive being used by a messy cook such as myself. The cover itself is plastic coated too, which helps. This all makes a difference, since this is the most stained & well used cookbook of all in my collection.
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Summary: Amazingly easy, simple, and very yummy recipes
Review: I received this book a couple years back as a gift from somebody who knew I liked to cook simple, fast stuff, and also knew I liked Thai food. It has turned out to be my favorite cookbook so far, with a 95% success rate for the recipes I've tried. (One recipe, I forget which one, was kind of boring.) My only previous exposure to cooking Thai food before I got this book was a class that I took that focused on Thai curries. There are not a lot of curries in this book, which is fine with me. I have tried about 25% of the recipes in the book so far, many of them 5 times or more. I do have to comment on another reviewer's review below, his review is titled "not a great cookbook." I heartily disagree. He complained that the recipes were too salty. NONE of the recipes in the book call for ANY salt! Of course most DO call for fish sauce. Not all fish sauce is the same, if your fish sauce is too salty, switch to another brand or use less of it. As an introduction to Thai cooking, this book is just great! If curries are the most important thing to you, then you can probably find a better book for yourself. There are a few curry recipes in here, and they are good, but it's not the main focus. Most of the recipes in the book only have about 3 steps, and often even these steps are very easy ones. The pictures are useful and pleasant, and the pages are glossy enough to survive being used by a messy cook such as myself. The cover itself is plastic coated too, which helps. This all makes a difference, since this is the most stained & well used cookbook of all in my collection.
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Summary: #1 Thai Cookbook
Review: If you are looking for a Thai cookbook, this is the one! A few special ingredients and you are on your way. Each recipes is laid out in an simple straightforward manner, pictures of every dish, only one drawback - no recipe for 'larb gai' - but dont let that stop you. If you want to cook Thai at home - get this book.
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Summary: Great Thai book with easy to understand recipes!
Review: If you are looking for one Thai cookbook that is full of easy to understand recipes that use easy to find ingredients, then buy this one. It was recommended to me and I agree that this is a must have for Thai cuisine lovers. My family loves spicy coconut and curry dishes like Panang and Massaman. There is no shortage of great recipes that are as good if not better than our local Thai restaurant. We liked it so well that our local Asian market ordered it from Amazon after they asked us where we got our recipes.
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Summary: Great Thai book with easy to understand recipes!
Review: If you are looking for one Thai cookbook that is full of easy to understand recipes that use easy to find ingredients, then buy this one. It was recommended to me and I agree that this is a must have for Thai cuisine lovers. My family loves spicy coconut and curry dishes like Panang and Massaman. There is no shortage of great recipes that are as good if not better than our local Thai restaurant. We liked it so well that our local Asian market ordered it from Amazon after they asked us where we got our recipes.
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Summary: #1 Thai Cookbook
Review: This book is excellent. I can make Thai food as well as my favorite Thai restaurant (No lessons, just the book). My favorites are stir-fried Pork and Curry (Prik King Pork), Sweet & Sour Pork, Spicy Chicken with Chili & Basil over Rice. I buy cook books that look interesting, but then they sit in the book shelf. This is one that use all the time. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Excellent Cook Book
Review: This book is excellent. I can make Thai food as well as my favorite Thai restaurant (No lessons, just the book). My favorites are stir-fried Pork and Curry (Prik King Pork), Sweet & Sour Pork, Spicy Chicken with Chili & Basil over Rice. I buy cook books that look interesting, but then they sit in the book shelf. This is one that use all the time. I highly recommend it.
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