Ken Hom's Simple Thai Cookery [Paperback]

Ken Hom (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 27, 2007

In Simple Thai Cookery, Ken Hom takes you step by step through 40 of the most popular Thai dishes—from Spicy Noodle Salad and comforting Coconut Chicken Soup to pungent Red Pork Curry. The tried-and-true recipes include appetizing soups and starters, quick and easy fish, meat, and vegetarian main courses, and a variety of savory accompaniments. Step-by-step instructions and color photos accompany each stage of the preparations, and with a menu-planner and guide to essential ingredients, this is a book that will inspire cooks of every ability.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Hom's accessible introduction should appeal to many home cooks.” -- Library Journal

About the Author

Ken Hom is one of the world’s top authorities on Chinese cooking. Among his best-sellers are Ken Hom’s Quick Wok, Ken Hom’s Top 100 Stir-Fry Recipes, and Ken Hom’s Hot Wok.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: BBC Books (March 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0563493283
• ISBN-13: 978-0563493280
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.4 x 10.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #929,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Asian > Thai

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple. delectable thai cooking, September 17, 2008

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AkS "Windy City Reader" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ken Hom's Simple Thai Cookery (Paperback)

In Simple Thai Cookery, Ken Hom teaches simple but mouth-watering thai dishes that are easy to prepare at home. From Shrimp Soup to Thai Fried Rice and Green and Red Curries, each recipe is illustrated with step-by-step photographs. This makes it easy to follow directions and you'll know what the end product is supposed to look like. I also liked his descriptions of Thai ingredients and once you have a few key items, rest of the recipe is easy to follow.

Highly recommended!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful AND Delicious, November 1, 2007

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Jane Al-Hashemi (United Arab Emirates) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ken Hom's Simple Thai Cookery (Paperback)

This cookbook offers recipes from all over Thailand and is so gorgeously illustrated you want to eat the pages. The photographs which accompany the recipe steps complete the "perfect cookbook package." I loved this cookbook enough to buy two!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Thai food, easy to make, July 11, 2011

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Eric H. Ash - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ken Hom's Simple Thai Cookery (Paperback)

My wife and I wanted to learn how to make excellent Thai food. We had tried 2-3 other Thai cookbooks, and made some tasty dishes out of them, but never anything that came close to what we could get at a decent Thai restaurant. Ken Hom's book has changed all that, and is probably the last Thai cookbook we'll ever need. It has all the classic dishes that we were looking for, especially curries and various fried rice dishes. The instructions are basic and easy to follow, with helpful photographs along the way. We're pretty experienced home cooks, but I think someone who was a beginner would be able to make the recipes work, as long as they followed the directions.

And the food! Nothing we've made has disappointed. We've tried 6-8 dishes so far, and everything has been excellent. Honestly, we would have tried more dishes by now, but some of what we tried was so good we just couldn't wait to make it again. We have been especially impressed that the real flavor or Thai food is there--these taste like things we'd order in a good restaurant, and not like something we've made out of a cookbook. That's all the more impressive given that we have had to use some of Hom's suggested substitutes for ingredients we just couldn't find (e.g., lime zest instead of kaffir lime leaves). The red pork curry and classic fried rice were simply outstanding, both an A+; the weakest dish so far has been the tom kha gai, which I'd probably give a B/B+. But we'll be making that one again, even so. As for spiciness: we like our Thai food very spicy, and I find Hom's recipes to be a little bit tame; but it's very easy to just add a little more chili pepper, as desired. Again, every time we decide to cook Thai food, it's a debate between trying another new dish and going back to something we already know we love.

Be advised, the book is published by the BBC, and we had a little trouble finding it in the US. But we had been cooking out of a library copy, and after we'd renewed it too many times we decided we had to have our own; believe me, it was well worth the effort.