Customer Reviews

Simply Thai Cooking

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

The flavours are authentic and the recipes are so easy to follow! I use it all the time now and it is always a hit with the family!

While you need access to an oriental foods store and need to do a bit of mind-reading or patron-accosting (at least at our's - no one knows the English terms for th hard-to-find stuff) to track down the ingredients - the food is a) easy to cook b) really tasty c) healthy. We tend to uh, overeat when I cook Thai and no matter if I double or triple the recipe we always eat it (My wife, three boys and I). Hmmm.

Highly recommend it but suggest you plan on taking your time. Depending on the recipe it can take a couple of hours for prep + cooking time. I put on my 'Cooking' iTunes playlist and my wife and I share the prep work and drink a glass of wine. I'll almost always rope my friends into helping when I cook for them. It's fun!

I love Thai cooking and this cookbook is very authentic. The recipe is easy to make and very yummy. A lot of the recipes taste very similar to the authentic thai restaurant I always go to. You can never go wrong with this book and it's the only thai cookbook I would use to make thai food.

This book is excellent , well written and explained, following the instruction create Thai cooking
The food tastes just like in a Thai restaurant

Here, you don't see a picture for every recipe but the recipes are really delicious and they do end up looking good. I like to see pictures for every recipe but then again does it really matter? I mean can a pretty picture in a book vouch for taste? Nope. I consulted too many books full of pretty pictures and awful recipes. I was familiar with thai cooking before hand so it was enough for me to check out the recipe's ingredients to give me an overall impression of what it may look like.
At the beginning of the book there is a short lexicon for ingredients which is very helpful in understanding what the ingredient is. Recipes are easy to follow with a step by step process and each page includes a short side note (tips,background info on recipe or on the special ingredient, etc.). I am so happy that I got this!!!

This is one of the first Thai cookbooks I purchased. Since then I have purchased several others, but I keep coming back to this one as my starting point for creating an Asian menu. As most other reviewers have stated, the directions are clear and the ingredient list is manageable. Young offers some helpful tips along the way to make it easier.

Some of the humor sprinkled throughout the book is an unexpected surprise. I love the spicy chile sauce recipe where the last step is "call the fire department". There could be more photos in my opinion, but that is not a major issue.

All in all a good investment is you want to learn how to cook Thai food. And if you are like me, living in an area that is devoid of closeby Thai restaurants, it is a necessity for those of us who need our Thai "fix" on a regular basis.

This is one of the first Thai cookbooks I purchased. Since then I have purchased several others, but I keep coming back to this one as my starting point for creating an Asian menu. As most other reviewers have stated, the directions are clear and the ingredient list is manageable. Young offers some helpful tips along the way to make it easier.

Some of the humor sprinkled throughout the book is an unexpected surprise. I love the spicy chili sauce recipe where the last step is "call the fire department".

If I had one quibble with this book, it would be that more photographs of the completed recipes would be helpful. Even so it is not a major issue.

All in all a good investment if you want to learn how to cook Thai food. And if you are like me, living in an area that is devoid of neighborhood Thai restaurants, it is a necessity for those of us who need our Thai "fix" on a regular basis.

Every recipe is an eye-popping wow of a winner! I love Thai cuisine and had no idea how to make it. All the ingredients are nicely described in the opening chapter "Thai Cooking: Hot and Lively." Here in the Washington, DC area, I easily found them all except lime leaves. You do want a wok, I think, though a frying pan is possible.

Back in the kitchen, the recipes are organized by main ingredient (with an index of English and Thai names), and side bars describe the dishes and their preparation in brief. The steps in each recipe are well described and easy to follow. After a few recipes, I started to find the steps similar, even predictable. Some steps can be done in different orders to make kitchen cleanup easier.

It really is simple. Now I feel comfortable substituting this or that vegetable or meat. The authors sometimes offer such tips. This book taught me to cook in the Thai style! Thank you!

Like many others, I've wanted to learn to cook Thai for some time now but have always been intimidated by what I thought was going to be complex, high energy cooking...Boy was I wrong. This book has enabled me to indulge my passion for cooking while still allowing me to make healthy food choices. Thanks Wanda! [When can we expect another book? I've made almost everything in this cookbook (some more than once).]

We bought this book with a gift certificate about four years ago. Since then, rice stick, fish sauce and black fungus have become staples in our pantry. My 5-year-old, fussy as children can be, counts several dishes from this book his absolute favourites - he gets more excited over noodles than even pizza!

The dishes are delicious, easy to prepare and fun to make. As well, they are impressive served to company and make exotic pot-luck contributions, sure to get rave reviews. And tofu never tasted so great! Definitely worth adding to your collection if you love flavourful food.