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Learn more about Thai cooking, such as how to cook with lemongrass, or where to buy a wok. A guide to Thai ingredients you'll need for most Thai recipes, plus utensils and other elements of the Thai kitchen.
How to Make Banana Leaf Boats for Cooking or Serving
Learn all about cooking with banana leaves! This step-by-step guide shows you how to buy banana banana leaf, and how to make banana leaf boats for cooking or beautiful Asian food presentation. Banana leaf can be steamed, baked, or used in grilling on the barbecue - or simply cut a piece and use it for serving. These simple banana leaf boats are easy to make and can be used to cook or serve fish and all types of seafood, as well as Asian salads and desserts. ENJOY!
Thai Cooking Tips
Check out these cooking tips to make your culinary exploration of Thailand a little easier.
Preparation is Everything
Thai cooking tips. The importance of getting ingredients ready ahead of time in Thai cooking.
Key Thai Herbs and Spices
What is galangal, and is there any substitution? This is just one of the key herbs and spices indispensable to Thai cooking. Read about this and other key Thai cooking ingredients.
Specialty Thai Cooking Ingredients
More Thai Cooking Ingredients - some of the special ones you may not have heard of, but you will want to incorporate to get the most out of your Thai cooking experience.
The Thai Kitchen
Furnish your kitchen with the right utensils for Thai cooking. You'll be surprised - you may already have many of these implements.
How to Cook with Lemongrass
Lemongrass is an essential ingredient in Thai cooking. Find out how to purchase lemongrass, and how to prepare it for use in Thai food. Learn how to add lemongrass to your recipes, and even how to grow it in your garden!
All About Fish Sauce (Nam Pla)
What is fish sauce and where do you buy it? How do you cook with fish sauce, and is there a vegetarian substitution? Find out the answers to these questions (and more), and learn how to use this most basic of Thai ingredients in your cooking. Personally, once I discovered fish sauce, I started using it in nearly every instance in place of salt. Worried about salt intake? Find out how to use fish sauce but still keep your sodium levels at bay. Read on...!
How to Cook with Banana Leaf
Banana leaves serve many purposes in Asian cooking, from adding flavor to foods cooked inside them, to simply being used as a colorful and exotic background for serving-plates and party platters. Banana leaves are beautiful, fun to use, and easy to cook with! Find out how to buy banana leaves, how to cook with them, how to decorate your platters with them, and how to store extra banana leaves for use next time.
How to Cook with a Clay Pot
This clay pot cooking lesson will teach you how to use a clay pot to make an array of Thai, Chinese, or other Asian dishes. Clay pot cooking is easy and fast, and also saves electricity.
Thai Cooking Ingredients and Cookware Shopping
Online shopping for Thai cooking ingredients and cookware made simple at the Temple of Thai - your one stop shopping for non stop cooking.
Asian Food Grocers
Asian food specialist for all ingredients required in Asian food cooking recipes, including Thai cuisine.
Too busy to make curry paste? Order some online!
If you're too busy or too tired to make your own paste, try this excellent substitute. These curry pastes (ordered online) are made in Thailand and feature the same ingredients you would use if you were making your own from scratch (and no preservatives, hydrogenated oils, or other unwanted ingredients). It's real Thai cooking at home, but easier.
Shopping for Thai Ingredients at An Asian Market
What is galangal? What do I do with Kaffir lime leaves? Where can I find lemongrass? Shopping for Thai ingredients in an Asian market can be a daunting experience if you don't know what to look for and where to find it. This page will take you through the labyrinth of Thai specialty ingredients and foodstuff in a typical Asian market.

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