My wife is an excellent scratch cook. Give her ingredients and she will prepare a delicious meal that you would identify as Thai food that is not on any restaurant menu. When she first came to America, the closest thing to an Asian market was Pier One Imports. Ready-made pastes and such didn't even exist back in Thailand, and we made eve…
My wife is an excellent scratch cook. Give her ingredients and she will prepare a delicious meal that you would identify as Thai food that is not on any restaurant menu. When she first came to America, the closest thing to an Asian market was Pier One Imports. Ready-made pastes and such didn't even exist back in Thailand, and we made everything the old way. A bottle cap nailed to a stick to scrape the meat from a coconut to make coconut milk since the canned stuff was not yet a thing for example. Zeus bless the Vietnamese entrepeneurs for making Asian markets a thing.
A little back in the day blurb for you. A department store was opening a "from China" department (sounds weird to young people, no doubt, but it was "exotic" in those days) and advertised to employ two young female Orientals (would be illegal today), and of course, pretty. They hired her and a young Filipina (straight black hair, high cheek bones and eyes with the epicanthal fold made you "Chinese" in the eyes of the average American back then). The other "They all look alike."
My wife is an excellent scratch cook. Give her ingredients and she will prepare a delicious meal that you would identify as Thai food that is not on any restaurant menu. When she first came to America, the closest thing to an Asian market was Pier One Imports. Ready-made pastes and such didn't even exist back in Thailand, and we made everything the old way. A bottle cap nailed to a stick to scrape the meat from a coconut to make coconut milk since the canned stuff was not yet a thing for example. Zeus bless the Vietnamese entrepeneurs for making Asian markets a thing.
A little back in the day blurb for you. A department store was opening a "from China" department (sounds weird to young people, no doubt, but it was "exotic" in those days) and advertised to employ two young female Orientals (would be illegal today), and of course, pretty. They hired her and a young Filipina (straight black hair, high cheek bones and eyes with the epicanthal fold made you "Chinese" in the eyes of the average American back then). The other "They all look alike."