Best Slightly Charred with Jumbo Shrimp
Shrimp
This is a simple traditional Vietnamese dish that works well with jumbo Shrimp or Prawns. The recipe makes four servings. Continue reading
Grilled Curried Shrimp / Tôm Cà Ri Nướng
Reply
Tag Archives: red chili peppers
Grilled Beef Salad / สลัดเนื้อย่างมะเขือ
Grilled Beef Salad with Eggplant สลัดเนื้อย่างมะเขือ
Asian Eggplants
This Thai Salad combines Grilled Beef with a Pickled Eggplant Salad which provides an attractive contrast of flavors. Continue reading
Prawns Clay Pot / Tôm nồi đất sét
Another Clay Pot
A Dish from the Mekong
Shrimp
Prawns Clay Pot is another of the various things you can do with Clay Pots, a Vietnamese favorite. Make it with Prawns or larger Shrimp, ideally Continue reading
Nepalese Cuisine
The Roof the the World
Chandradeva’s Pathway
“The wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Kathmandu.” — Rudyard Kipling [1]
Vale of Kathmandu
What is Nepalese cuisine? Actually, the question should be, What Nepal? Or, what cuisine? For a relatively small country, Nepal has an astonishing variety of cuisines that can be called Nepalese.
Often thought of as a lofty, mountainous land, home of the world’s Continue reading
Indonesian Cuisine
A Nation of Islands
Rijsttafel, Sate, and Sambals
“Indonesia isn’t a country, it’s a happening.” — Christopher Lucas [1]
Garuda, Indonesia, 14th cent.
Indonesia stretches from the Asian mainland towards Australia, like a jade necklace across the southern ocean. The nation contains more than 17,000 islands, and its people represent several hundred ethnic groups, speaking many different languages.
Indonesia is an ancient country and its Continue reading
Malaysian Cuisine
Durian Cake and Zuberbuhler’s Special
Raffles, Maugham and Lord Jim Country
“At the end of the tenth century Canton carried on direct trade with the Malay Peninsula.” —Friedrich Hirt and W. W. Rockhill [1]
Tang Dynasty Camel
From the Silk Road, 8th Century
For centuries the Malay Peninsula has been an important corridor in the southern sea route of the Spice Route.
The Strait of Malacca was an important Continue reading