Trust the Thais to get it wrong. Had to laugh when the doctor defended on only the positive side of the mistake made by the nurse. As if it’s an acceptable excuse. Only in Thailand!
January 24, 2009
Devil Curry
Category: Recipe
A Eurasian cuisine I believe of Portuguese influence, was exposed to me a long time back where my Eurasian ex-boss had once cooked it over Christmas. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to try it as it was cooked with pork. Had long forgotten about it. Stumbled upon this in Southeast Asian Food cookbook, a gift from Silver Bullet. Think he got tired of me asking him what to cook every time :p. Not knowing what to expect, I experimented this dish with some improvisation and boy! was it good. Certainly not for the faint-hearted.
Devil Curry
2015-07-15 12:30:00
Ingredients
- chicken cut into pieces
- 4-5 tbsp oil
- 1 large onion sliced
- 1 inch fresh ginger root, peeled & sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, sliced
- 1 – 1 1/2 cups of water
- 1 1/2 tspn brown mustard seed, grounded
- 1/4 cup white vinegar or to taste
- 1-2 tspn sugar to taste
- 2 tbsp yellow mustard
- Taters, quartered
- Salt to taste
A) Marinade for chicken
- 1 tspn light soy sauce
- 1 tspn dark soy sauce
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce
- Pepper to taste
- B) Spice Paste (blend/grind all)
- 30 dried chillies and soaked in warm water and drained
- 10 shallots
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 inch fresh ginger, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 tspn ground tumeric
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken in (A). Mix in all thoroughly and set aside
- Heat in the oil and fry the onions, ginger and garlic till golden brown and fragrant
- Add (B) and stir-fry till everything is fragrant
- And the chicken and all of the marinade and fry them all for a few minutes
- Add water as it cooks dry and cover to simmer till chicken is nearly cook.
- Add mustard seeds, yellow mustard, vinegar and sugar to taste
- Mix in the taters and continue cooking till they are cooked. Salt to taste
- Serve with bread or rice
Notes
- Variations to this recipe include using 10 fresh chillies and 10 dried chillies instead. I came across some recipes that has chilli padi in it on top of the many dried chillies. I suppose it’s not called Devil Curry for nothing!
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January 23, 2009
Thailand’s smelliest food
Category: Food
And the winner is……The Bamboo Shoot Dish. Looks unappetizing and really is revoltingly pungent. It smells like pee so putrid, that you’d think the pee may have flowed out from a rotten kidney, infested with rats’ carcasses.
This dish, however, is so relished in Thailand. But one man’s meat is another man’s poison. This is my ultimate poison. If you are in Thailand and wondering where the foul smell comes from when you are in a food area (or sometimes not), I assure you it’s probably the vile smelling bamboo shoot. You can definitely detect it way before you see it. You have been warned.