Customer Reviews

The Elegant Taste of Thailand: Cha Am Cuisine

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I have used a number of thai cookbooks, but keep coming back to this one. The recipes are well written, and the pictures give the user a good idea of what the final dish should look like. The recipes are a "can't miss".

I have 4 thai cookbook, but I use mostly this one. The recepies are foolproof and simple to follow. I like so much this book that I bought copies for family and friends.

I have a copy of 1995 printing of this book. I grew up in Thailand and have tried many popular Thai dishes. This book covers most of the popular dishes. It's got clear photo and step-by-step instruction for every single dish. The dishes taste exactly like the ones from restaurants in Thailand. I'm very happy with this book.

If you're Thais and live abroad. This is a good reference for authentic Thai cooking.

If you love eating at Thai restaurants, you'll love this book. I had several Thai cookbooks before I purchased this one, and I had to experiment, cobble recipes together, and experiment again to get dishes even remotely close to what I wanted. And I wanted basics I found at Thai restaurants, like cucumber salad, satey, padd thai (Thai fried noodles), Tom Kha (chicken and coconut soup), panaeng curry, etc. Then I found The Elegant Taste of Thailand, which had most of my favorite dishes, all easily explained, and cooked the way I was used to eating them -- Cha Am cuisine seems to be the style cooked in most American Thai restaurants.

Yes, I'd love to see a better index (why give the titles in Thai and the index in English?) and some ingredients need better explanations (go to your local Asian market and ask a few questions), but overall, this is the very best Thai cookbook around.

If you love to eat Thai, and you love to cook, you'll love this cookbook. It's easy, got most of your favorite dishes, and they're prepared the way you're used to eating them.

Bon appetit!

Going to Cha-am is a religious experience for Thai food lovers in the Bay Area. This is a great opportunity to try making dishes at home--and you even get great results. Two words of warning, however: there is not a huge amount of variety in the food presented here (you will still need to go to the restaurant to get many favorites and many Thai standards), and while the glossary was a great idea, the descriptions are confusing and not all of the Thai ingredients that mystify are explained in the glossary.

I have used this cookbook for over a decade and used it so much it's needing rebinding. The accurate colorful pictures of the dishes are beautiful and motivating. The recipes are authentic and taste excellent. I cannot find a better book for Thai cooking and this one gets used continually in my kitchen.

I am satisfied with the book. There are a few interesting recipes that we have tried and have been happy with the outcome.

A narrowly focused book with little to add to most run of the mill Thai cookery books. There are better texts on the market and I am afraid that I found this unchallenging and really a waste of money. My advice - if you are a keen Thai cook then look elsewhere.