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Sweet success
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 21/07/2019
» Sugar is indispensable to Thai cuisine. Granular sugar is widely used in the present day but sugars made from sugar palm or coconut trees or sugarcane are still as suitable for traditional Thai dishes and sweets as ever.
The robe offering
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 02/12/2018
» A combined festival of merit-making and dining takes place once a year. It's a festival most Buddhists wouldn't miss, the kathina ceremony.
Old versus new
Life, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 21/09/2018
» Culinary art keeps evolving. Nothing is the same when looking back 50 years, when the same kind of food was completely different from today. It is quite difficult to predict future food style. It would be possible that shrimp with spicy soup might add vermicelli or black bean. Or pad Thai might add red tilapia fish. Or soybean milk might replace coconut milk in green curry.
One size does not fit all
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 04/03/2018
» Twenty years ago, people would get excited when a western newspaper praised Thai food as a new sensation. Foreign tourists visiting Thailand were very much impressed by what they ate here. The number of Thai restaurants overseas sharply increased, signaling the newfound popularity of our cuisine.
Selling points
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 15/10/2017
» In making any type of business investment, the most important thing to consider is your customer base. This can be tricky as you have to guess what your target group wants. You might have to ask yourself these questions: What can people not live without? Where do people pass by in their daily lives? How can we accommodate those who prefer payment in cash?
From farm to table
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 20/08/2017
» The popularity of Western cuisine is growing in Thailand, one of the most likely reasons behind this being the initiative taken by embassies and chambers of commerce to show off their specialities abroad. These organisations host food festivals where they invite famous chefs to introduce their countries' most celebrated dishes and food products to Thais.
Home comforts
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 05/03/2017
» When you see a country housewife picking krathin shoots along the fence bordering her property and gathering pea-sized eggplants called makhuea phuang, she'll probably tell you that she is going to pound up some nam phrik (chilli dip sauce).
Homegrown ingredients
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 23/10/2016
» If you like cooking for yourself, why not get serious and try growing your own vegetable right at home? The ones that you really need all the time are chillies (phrik khee nuu), lemon grass, galangal, saw-tooth herb (phak chee farang), and the different types of basil, known in Thai as bai kraphrao, bai horapha and yee raa.
Sushi on a roll
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 04/09/2016
» Sushi, the Japanese rolled rice favourite, has made itself completely at home in Thailand. It has quickly acquired the status of a younger sibling of sukiyaki, which arrived here more than 50 years ago. Over half a century, sukiyaki has adapted to local preferences and become completely naturalised in Thailand, now having little in common with the original Japanese dish.
Gone but not forgotten
B Magazine, Suthon Sukphisit, Published on 07/08/2016
» Many old Thai dishes that were familiar to people of a few generations ago are gone now, but among the old dishes, a number have been revived and are appearing on menus again. In many cases there have been revisions and adaptations, however, with new ingredients introduced as substitutes for original ones that are hard to find now, or that may no longer be available at all.