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Khao Soi Recipe « — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:38:57 +0000

[...] Special thanks to Phil Lees for the use of his photos. His blog on khao soi can be found right here: http://www.lastappetite.com/khao-soi/ [...]

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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:01:42 +0000

[...] Special thanks to Phil Lees for the use of his photos. His blog can be found right here: http://www.lastappetite.com/khao-soi/ [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:41:05 +0000

As a vegetarian I would like to point out that we are not all fascist. Vegans give us a bad name. I choose to respect the lives of animals, I also choose to respect the decisions of other people, and not demagogue and spew hate. Most importantly I choose to respect the centuries old cultural traditions of indigenous peoples and not demand they change like some Capitalist pig. I too can personally make homemade vegetarian Khao Soi that I feel would taste better than the authentic version. But how would I know? I don’t like and don’t eat meat. And I am sure the majority of the native peoples of Southeast Asia would disagree. By the way most meat there is cheapest source of protein, and is home reared and sold locally at the markets. No clear cutting of forests for the production of subsidized cattle. They clear-cut for other reasons. Oh, and plants are species too.

I could go on, but I think I will go make a fresh delicious mango lassi instead. Yum!

Also, vegan research is shoddy and clearly biased.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:02:18 +0000

Although this is interesting, I think I have to point out the 2 storey rhino in the room. Your bit here is unapologetically speciest. You seem entirely comfortable, at least you did at the point of this publication, to ignore the entirely uncessary comodification, killing, and suffering of a SENTIENT being. Is it relevant that the traditional dish has meat and uses “egg” noodles? No! Of course it’s not. Unless cuisine is some Platonic pie in the sky pursuit, which is silly for being impossible, then individual talent and modification are not only inevitable from bowl to bowl (let alone chef to chef), but allowed without completely bastardizing the dish altogether. I have made better vegan khao soi with my own hands than any I tasted in Chiang Mai. Furthermore in a dish like this the meat is obviously an accessory (else you couldn’t imagine changing the type of meat). Anyone who would even argue that it makes the dish taste better is in some respects an apathetic and ignorant human being. Do animals feel anything? If a chicken can feel even a moment of negative stimulus and if sentient life is worth anything at all (keeping in mind that in the absence of religious favouritism, sentience is precisely what any animal seems likely to share as a loss at death) then dare we not say that matters more than your unecessary indulgence? No one needs ‘meat’, ‘dairy’, or (Chicken) ‘eggs’. If you disagree you simply need to do some research (that doesn’t come from the Cattleman’s Association).

I care about the animals, but I also care about the rain forests in South America and the tremendous wastes in energy and land that are the result of feeding over 50 billion domesticated land animals a year. I care about the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico. I care about the pathogens bred in the farms you patron and the people that have suffered and/or died from your sponsored pathogens. I care about the water that it wastes to eat animals, their baby formula, and eggs. I just care at all. If you can’t look in the eyes of a slowly dying animal or even one that will begin to die in moments and think that it looks delicious, then you shouldn’t eat it. For, part of what makes you separate, beautiful, and not driven solely by your cravings, is that you can be moral.

I hope you realize that this is a brutally speciesist and apathetic phrase: “regardless of the animal on offer”.

Just open your eyes. Veganism is easy. No one needs your excuses.

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Khao Soi « viewfinder | xin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:45:33 +0000

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Mereka Bilang Saya Bodat » Blog Archive » Khao Soi — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:32:52 +0000

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By: Charles Frith

Charles Frith — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:40:37 +0000

Another Thai food porn blog. Yay!

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:58:46 +0000

common khao soi is more a bangkok re-invention of the northern dish. traditionally, it contains no coconut milk at all, as the coconut palms of the north are not plentiful, do not produce good milk, and are generally reserved for making sweets for special occasions. beef is the most traditional, chicken is orthodox enough, pork is an aberration. but however the dish is made, i’ve personally never had a bowl that was less than delicious.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:52:57 +0000

Once again, looks fantastic.
I wish I had some well-educated addition to make, but alas, sadly, I do not.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:27:37 +0000

There is certainly much more work to be done - I think Austin mentioned somewhere that the owners of Khao Soi Lam Duan claim that they invented khao soi in its current form. I'm extremely doubtful of that, but it may have a nugget of truth in it if khao soi is a recent Thai innovation.