hai Cuisine is well-known for being hot and spicy and for its balance of five fundamental flavors in each dish or the overall meal – hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty, and bitter (optional). It is known for its enthusiastic use of fresh (rather than dried) herbs and spices as well as fish sauce.

Crustasia is just one of the Red Crab restaurants. If you’re craving for seafood, most especially crabs, you may want to try Crustasia’s buffet if you’re in Shangri-la Mall. Crustasia’s buffet selections are complete. It includes appetizers, the main course and the dessert where you’ll get to enjoy delicacies from China, Thailand and Vietnam. Continue reading →

Thai Spring Rolls, 4pcs. at 99 Pesos
I didn’t realize that in the middle of Marikina City there would be a Thai restaurant that is as good (or better) as the Thai restaurants iin the posh areas of the metro. It’s just behind a public area (Marikina Public Market) and it’s not known to many.
During my birthday last Feb 28th, me and my fellow bloggers (Aileen, Melo, Gail, Marc, JayDJ, Karla and Migs) dined at this restaurant just to get together;seems that we’re a little stressed on the SM Marikina Wifi Stress Event. Nah, just kidding. Anyway, Aileen suggested that we eat here and so our gastronomic cravings headed up to this place. Continue reading →

Thai Iced Coffee and Thai Iced Green Tea, 70 pesos each
There’s this new restaurant we tried out in SM Mall of Asia recently. Since we are not really frequent visitors of Mall of Asia, we make sure that we dine at the places that are not really accessible in the most common areas we go to. So here’s Jatujak ( pronounced as ‘chatuchak’), a Thai restaurant we found just beside Foccaccino. FYI: the name itself is what the Thailanders call their weekend market in Thailand. Continue reading →

I was in the mood in cooking lately so I decided to cook a simple Thai dish. I got this recipe from Yummy Magazine May 2008 issue (again
), So basically, I just substituted the Thai fish sauce with the ordinary fish sauce since it’s much cheaper
. As for the lime juice, probably you could use lemon or anything near to lime ( I think calamansi or lemon is too sour, so it’s better to use lime — the green lemon — instead). It’s very simple to cook, you can have this done by 30 minutes or less ( including the preparation). Continue reading →