lao food recipe="lao food recipe" I need an authentic Thai beef salad recipe?
So my husband is Laotian and Thai. His mom makes some really good Thai food. I especially like it cause she makes it really spicy ;]! Anyways, even though she makes really good food, she never makes Thai Beef Salad. She makes a version of it but it's made with seafood and it's ok but I'm not crazy about it. Anyways, if anyone could give me a recipe and please be specific about brands and amounts because I am not asian and if you tell me to get some fish sauce I will not know which kind. Lol! Oh an could you also tell me how to cook the sticky rice! I mean the Yam Neua, no the Laab ;]
I can you the recipe, but it's not an exact measurement. When we cook, we don't use measurement, it's by taste and experience.
Beef has to be the most tender cut piece. (grilled or roast it first to your liking). 1 lemon grass stalk only the white stem, o.k. if you use green part roasted ground rice (not sure how much, depending how you like it) a couple clove of garlic red onions (half) 1 or 2 stem of scalions a handful of cilanto lemon juice fishsauce and salt red pepper flakes or fresh jalepeno
Slice grilled beef very thin, and mix in the lemon juice salt or fishsauce, lemon grass, red onion, garlic, and roasted rice.
right before you serve, add pepper, scallions, and cilanto for presentation and aroma for the dish. good luck.
this made my mouth water, I might make it tomorrow since I have ground roasted rice on hand.
The reader may have heard that Thai has five different tones, but actually there are ten different ways to pronounce a word, because all five of the tones can be long or short. So I’m not too ashamed to admit that, in common with most foreigners living here, my progress so far has been pretty pitiful. I recently went to meet my girlfriend’s grandmother who, I was informed, was in the habit of asking people she met the same two questions: “where do you come from?” and “how old are you?”. Before meeting the lady I rehearsed my answers till I knew I had them off-pat. Unfortunately on the occasion we met she changed her second question to “how many children do you have?” She and everybody else fell about the place when I answered “48”.
Thai Linguistic Oddities – Six of the best
1. The word ‘gligh’ means ‘near’ and also ‘far’, depending on how you pronounce it. A nightmare when your tones are somewhat slurred and you are trying to find your way back to your hotel.
2. People will call you ‘kay’, rhyming with the English word ‘hay’, meaning old, even if you are not. Don’t confuse this with the word ‘gay’, meaning ‘gay’, which means the same as in English and which you may also be called, even if you are not. People will however not call you ‘gay kay’, meaning ‘old gay’, unless you really are one.
3. If someone refers to you by using the pronoun ‘kay’ (‘old’) instead of your name then it either means they hold you in high esteem or that they think you look ancient and decrepit. If someone refers to you by using the word ‘man’ instead of your name then it either means they really like you, or really loathe you (the Thai word ‘man’ means ‘it’ in English).
4. When a Thai woman tells a man she loves him, she can either say ‘chan rack kun’, which transliterates as ‘I love you’, or, most oddly, she can say ‘cow rack doah-eng’ – which transliterates as ‘she loves herself’. Odd.
5. There are several different types of land title in Thailand. The general Thai word for a land title deed is ‘chanote’. However, the best type of land title deed is called a ‘Chanote’ with a capital ‘c’. So occasionally foreigners end up buying a piece of land, thinking it bears the best type of deed, when it doesn’t. They then, like other people who have come here to just take rather than to give too, go about denigrating Thai people. This thankfully doesn’t last too long, as they generally leave soon afterwards.
6. Three Thai given names are ‘We’, ‘I’ and ‘You’. So if you hear somebody saying “We is not going with I or You” then no, it’s not the Queen of England or Ali G speaking, just a Thai person speaking perfect English.
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