Khanom Thai: "Thai traditional dessert" Bangkok Restaurant Tip by awayhome

Thai traditional dessert and sweets (khanom Thai) come in a bewildering variety from light concoctions through to custards, ice creams and cakes, and an entire category of confections based upon egg yolks cooked in flower-scented syrups. Bananas and coconuts grow everywhere in Thailand, and if they were to be removed from the list of ingredients available to the khanom cook, the entire edifice of Thai dessert cookery would come crashing down.

Favorite Dish: Banana chunks stewed in sweetened, slightly salted and scented coconut cream (Kluay buat chii).
Small balls of tapioca flour, dyed red and shaped around tiny pieces of water chestnut. These are served in a mixture of sweetened coconut cream and ice (Thap thim krawb).
Thick coconut cream, palm sugar and eggs, then steamed inside a young coconut or a small pumpkin (Sangkhaya maphrao awan).
Glutinous rice mixed with coconut cream, sugar and either black beans or other goodies, and cooked in bamboo segments, then slit open and rice eaten(Khao laam).
Banana sliced lengthwise, dipped in coconut cream and flour, and deep fried (Kluay Khaek).
& so many more!

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