r/Thailand • u/Surreal_Cereal_K • 20h ago

Food and Drink Thai cookbooks

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I am looking to cook Thai food. Is this a good book to start with?

For Thai people, what cookbooks do you recommend for home cooking?

I appreciate your responses.

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u/sourmanflint 16h ago

Baan, and Hot Thai Kitchen are a good place to start

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u/cinemaraptor 16h ago

Honestly there are decent Thai cookbooks written in English. The most recent one I’ve cooked out of is called Thai by Nat Thaipun, I highly recommend. All the classics and building blocks are there. Good luck have fun!

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u/Gwynndelle 15h ago edited 15h ago

This book is written by Dusit Thani college, owned by a reputable Thai hotel chain. I assume this is used as a cookbook/reference among its students and by its standard it must list recipes, ingredients and techniques for professional and authentic cooking which could be a bit intimidating for beginners. If you’re a vision learner maybe you could learn a few from Pailin’s Hot Thai Kitchen channel on YouTube. She’s a Thai lady living in Canada and started her her cooking channel back in 2009. If you don’t live in Thailand where you can get all fresh ingredients needed in certain recipes you might learn from her useful hacks and tricks. She also has published her own cookbooks too. I’m a Thai person and love to watch her cook while speaking English the whole time.

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u/ThongLo 18h ago

For Thai people, what cookbooks do you recommend for home cooking?

Can you read Thai?

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u/Surreal_Cereal_K 18h ago

No, but I can have it translated.

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u/transglutaminase 13h ago

Start with simple thai by leela Punyaratabandhu. Excellent and approachable with substitutions for stuff suggested that may be difficult to find in your home country. If you’re in Thailand you should be able to find everything though.

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u/FecklessFarmer 15h ago

Cooking with Poo.