What To Buy | Cooking Ingredients In Thailand

Souvenirs to buy in Thailand | Cooking needs

If you are a foodie and love cooking as your hobby, there are many ready made ingredients for you to bring home and then enjoy cooking and serve the family and friends.

As for me, to serve family back home using original Thai ingredients would be surely have the food taste similar like when we have it in Thailand. I love cooking and serve the family and Thai food is one of our family favourite.

Most time my travel back home, I will never miss to bring food ingredients stuffs.

What I normally do is to individually wrapped using newspaper and place each items in a plastic bag to prevent from odor migration. Since the distance is not too long, I sometimes bring home frozen food also.

But just be cautious, not all country you are able to bring in food stuffs especially meat items, dairy, herbs and etc.. eg. Australia is very strict with most foodstuffs.

Just check before you leave your country. Knowing the regulations is better, so that the goods that we bring are not being confiscate by the customs.

MY COOKING NEEDS

These are the items that I normally get from my trip to Thailand:

1. DRIED RICE NOODLES – I will used it to cooked Phad Thai or or local fried noodles dishes.

2. PALM SUGAR – You can use Palm Sugar as an alternative to white sugar in local sweet dessert and savoury hot cooking.

3. DRIED FISH– Deep Fried and eat with white rice , soup, porridge or noodle. Surely it will give a crunched and slighty salty taste.

4. LONGAN FRUIT ( FROZEN / DRIED ) – You can just boiled with water, sugar and folded pandan leaf ( for fragrance purpose ) . A Very tasty dessert .

5. RED BERRY RICE – Red Berry Rice can be mixed with white rice or making a dessert : Steamed Red Berry Rice until cooked and served with boiled coconut milk and topped with fruits.