Wandering Adventure Party

I’m sure you know this, but some of the maesri pastes are non-vegetarian.

Strongly agreed on the delicious, lazy, vegan food, though.

“Tastes like it’s from your local Thai restaurant” is different than “tastes like it’s from Thailand”

The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

You may have noticed that the ratio of Thai restaurants to Thai people in the US is high—and it's no coincidence.

VICE (www.vice.com)

The TL;DR is that the Thai government has sponsored many Thai restaurants around the world as a form of diplomacy. Menus and recipes have largely been standardized by the Thai government, but adapted to local tastes.

Personally, if I want takeout style Thai curry, I use maesri brand curry paste cans. They are cheap and don’t take up much space, and they have instructions on them like “add curry paste and 100 ml coconut milk to wok and cook till fragrant. Add 400 g protein …”. It’s easy to keep a selection on hand of the different flavors. Yeah, it won’t be the same as doing it 100% from scratch, but a lot of Thai restaurant food like pad Thai is notorious for requiring a lot of ingredients.

They aren’t talking about rolled or steel cut oats, they are talking whole grain as in unprocessed other than winnowing. They are also known as “groats”.