"A guide to bold, authentic Thai cooking from Andy Ricker, the chef and owner of the wildly popular and widely lauded Pok Pok restaurants. After decades spent traveling throughout Thailand, Andy Ricker wanted to bring the country's famed street food stateside. In 2005 he opened Pok Pok, so named for the sound a pestle makes when it strikes a clay mortar, in an old shack in a residential neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Ricker's traditional take on...

Delicious to eat and easy to cook, Thai is everyone's favourite Asian cuisine. "Vatch's Thai Kitchen" is an impressive collection of recipes written especially for people cooking in a regular Western kitchen, using Thai ingredients widely available in supermarkets and Asian stores. If you haven't cooked Thai before, start with easy nibbles to serve with drinks such as Shrimp Wrapped in Crisp Noodles; graduate to one-dish meals like Pad Thai or Spicy...

Provides readers with the knowledge necessary to create Thai meals, and includes more than 175 recipes.

Shares recipes, tips, tools, and techniques for preparing Thai appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, and desserts, and includes suggested substitutions for hard-to-find ingredients.