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| September 9, 2008 Today we feature two new Thai recipes, both are very simple, easy to make and healthy. We also feature a story about the celebrity chef Prime Minister, and don't miss our new Thai street vendor recipe videos. |
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Fried Crab Chips, 3.52 oz can
One of our most popular snacks is Manora brand fried shrimp chips, and now we are pleased to offer what we think is a more tasty flavor--crab. Offered in a large can about 10" tall, sealed with a metal pull-tab cap and a plastic lid for storage. Manora snacks are packaged in the most modern facility and the overall product taste is excellent. Ingredients: tapioca flour, crab, palm oil, garlic, sugar, salt, pepper, flavor enhancer. No color or preservative added. Product of Thailand. This is a great value. |
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$2.89 |
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Thai Crispy Roll Snack, All Natural, 18.62 oz Box
This snack is made to the highest standard for export, and it's one of the most popular snacks found all over Thailand. Similar to European rolled pirouette and Norwegian krumkake, but made with whole coconut and rice flour. The snacks are quite heavy and nutritious. You get an attracive large box (as shown, left) and inside the box is 24 individual modern foil packages of 5 rolls. These are made in Kanchanaburi, famous for excellent sweets. There is chile paste added, but the cookies are not very spicy at all, it's very mild and you don't taste the chile flavor until after you've eaten one. This is a real treat. Ingredients: coconut 41%, rice flour 22%, sugar 20%, sesame 6%, chilli paste 6%, egg 4.5%, salt less than 1% Product of Thailand. |
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$5.89 |
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Thai Rice Flake, 8 oz
Similar to chantaboon rice stick, just a different shape. Also called "kua chap chips" because they are mainly used to make kua chap. Ingredients: rice flour, water. Product of Thailand. |
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$2.49 |
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Candle nuts, 7 oz package
Candle nuts are used in various Indonesian curries, and we're going to feature Indonesian curries using candle nut in our next newsletter. The candle nuts are similar to macadamia nuts, but more bland and perhaps more "earthy" in texture and flavor. Product of Indonesia. |
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$5.39 |
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Special Report--An Update on The Most Famous Chef in Thailand: Prime Minister Samak. Just a few months ago we mentioned the election victory of chef Samak in Thailand. This event made world history, as it's the first time a celebrity chef became a nation's prime minister. We also met Samak in person at the Bangkok studio of his cooking show. He was a gracious host, to say the least. As we ate lunch with Samak he told interesting stories about Thai food, music, history, poetry, and language.
Samak has been under scrutiny recently for issues ranging from a land dispute with Cambodia over maps drawn up during the French colonial era, to his role in supporting a former prime minister, and general political turmoil that accompanies any active democracy with an uninhibited free press.
Ironically, Samak's decision to continue filming his cooking show after becoming Prime Minister might be what ladles him out of office so soon after getting elected. A group of opposition-party senators filed court motions to dismiss Samak on the basis that, under Thai law, it's illegal to work for any private company after getting elected. We understand that Samak only filmed his cooking show a few times and was paid about $1000 per episode. On Tuesday September 9, as many of you may be reading our newsletter, a court in Bangkok will make a decision.
As one journalist mentioned, one thing they won't be able to convict him for is bad taste: his tom kha salmon recipe is delicious.
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| Special Street Vendor Features--Larb and Somtum on a Motorcycle Kitchen, and Thai Home Cooking From The Heart. We take you back to the streets of Bangkok with authentic street vendor videos, and a special feature set to music. |
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