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Babytapi Amemura – Osaka
Babytapi America-mura (ベビタピ アメリカ村店)
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Raw Liver at ลาบ ลับ ลับ ปรีดี 43
Either Taro or my cousin knew about an awesome Japanese street restaurant in Bangkok that serves raw beef liver – a dish once very popular in Japan that is now…
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65 baht plate lunch
This was at the very end of last year. This cafeteria-type place near our friend’s bakery (the legendary Sang-R-Thit) has since closed down, but it was good while it lasted.…
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Potak Soup
“Potak” apparently means “shipwreck,” although I haven’t confirmed it beyond a Google search.* This may be considered a variant of Tom Yum Goong, although it really depends on who’s making…
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Thai meatball
Thai meatballs (luk chin or look chin, depending on your preferred Romanization) are, like sausage, popular and of mysterious formulation — you never really know what they’re made of, even…
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Squid Yum
It’s yum.
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Chicken Katsu
It was hard deep frying inside the house until we upgraded our Electrolux hood with a 1HP Mitsubishi blower on our roof.
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Gaeng Liang (Spicy Thai Vegetable Soup)
If I had to describe it in two words, I might say “peppery” and “fishy” – which is strange, because I hate most fishy things. For some reason, it really…
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Khao Pad Moo
Pork fried rice – in its purest form, but I can’t remember how this one actually tasted. I never order fried rice outside, but Mina loves it. I prefer making…
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Dragonfruit BBQ Sauce Ribs
Behold, dragonfruit ribs on my ghetto oil can smoker! There were no leftovers that day.
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Pitaya BBQ Sauce
I tried making a barbecue sauce out of red dragonfruit at the end of last year. It was colorful and pretty tasty, but nothing is coming close to the mango…
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Sampeenong in Yangtalat, Kalasin
This is our typical order at Sampeenong, our favorite Isan food joint in the area. Gai Yang (grilled chicken) Somtam Lao (Lao-style Papaya Salad) Tap Wan (literally, “sweet liver”) Kor…
