Thai Made Easy

Thai Made Easy cooking class with Yui Miles Friday 12th September 2025

• Fish sauce - they bury the anchovies in the ground to ferment them. She went to the Squid brand fish sauce factory when she was in Thailand - they show you the anchovies they use and how they make the fish sauce.
• Shrimp paste - made up of really small prawns.
• Thailand - like India, they have limes rather than lemons. You can get lemons for the 10x the price of limes as they are imported. Believe that the climate is too humid or not humid enough [forgot which] for lemons to grow.
• Building a table - just one type of curry, a stir fried dish, a salad, rice, and a soup. Thai people like to be generous with food and so the idea is to make one more dish than the number of people you’ve invited. So if there are four of you at the table, make 5 dishes.
• Favourite Thai desserts - Thai people don’t tend to have desserts, usually we have fruit. But she likes mango with sticky rice, and her favourite is coconut ice cream. As well as the banana in coconut milk I mentioned.