La-tiang (Thai Egg Bed Snack)

Name of food : La-tiang (Thai Egg Bed Snack)

Name of interviewee : Ng Choi Wan

Online recipe

•   1 cup minced pork
•   1/2 cup minced shrimp
•   1/4 cup onion, cubed
•   3 chili peppers, finely sliced
•   1/4 cup coriander leaves
•   1/4 cup peanut
•   3 tablespoons fish sauce
•   5-8 peppercorns
•   1 tablespoon minced garlic
•   3 tablespoons sugar
•   1 coriander root
•  5 duck eggs, beaten

Preparations:

1. Grind coriander root, garlic and peppercorn in a mortar and pound until mixed thoroughly (or using food processor).

2. Heat oil in a wok over medium heat. Add garlic mixture (prepared in 1st step), and stir fry until golden and aromatic. Add pork, shrimp and onion. Then season with fish sauce, sugar and peanut. Stir until all cooked, dried and mixed well. Remove from heat.

3. Heat oil in a wok over medium heat. Then dip hand in the beaten egg and toss away the beaten egg in the wok as square table shape. Wait until cooked, then remove and set aside for wrapping later.

4. Wrapping: put the prepared egg (square table shape) on the clean flat surface. Add the chili pepper and coriander leaves in the bottom. Then add the minced pork + shrimp mixture (prepared in 2nd step) over the chili and coriander leaves. Fold the edge and seal it tightly.

5. Arrange in the serving plate. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve immediately with hot steamed rice or as snack.

Current recipe

•   Chopped pork
•   Minced shrimp, around 10-15
•   1 onion, diced
•   3 red chili peppers, finely sliced
•   Coriander leaves
•   ¼ cup peanut, grind
•   Fish sauce, 3 tablespoons
•   ¼ cup sugar
•   5 duck egg, beaten
•   3 small garlics, minced
•   1 coriander root, break off into 3 roots
•   10 peppercorns

Preparations:

First step, grind peppercorns, cut small coriander root, and minced garlic together until mixed.

Second step, the oil in wok with medium heat. After that, add garlic mixture (prepared in 1^st step) into wok and stir fry until aromatic and golden. Add pork, shrimp, and onion into wok again. Then season with fish sauce, sugar, and peanut. Stir all until cooked and mixed well. Then put into a plate.

Third step, again medium heat in wok. Fried duck eggs like normal egg.

Forth step is wrapping. Put the prepared fried eggs on the clean plate. Add chili peppers and coriander leaves at the bottom of fried egg. Then add the mixture of shrimp and pork (prepared in 2^nd step) over the chili and leaves. Fold he wrapper into a rectangular shape.

Last step, put all in the serving plate. A decoration with coriander leaves and chili peppers. Serve immediately as snack. 

          Thai food Culture is one of the most internationally spread cuisines, and is often considered a favorite. In Thailand, food forms a central part of any social occasions—and vice versa. That is, food often becomes the social occasion in itself, or reason to celebrate. This is partly due to the friendly, social nature of Thai people, but also because of the way in which food is ordered and eaten in Thailand. A typical Thai meal includes four main seasonings: salty, sweet, sour, and spicy. Based on my research, Thai people love snack very much. Thai people love to snack when they’re in somewhere. Sweets and desserts are usually not eaten on meal times, but as snack. If you’re luckily invited to Thai person’s house, you’re always greeted with a welcome snack.

          Thailand can be divided into different culinary regions, the north, the northeast, the south, and the central plains. Each region has its own cooking style according ingredients and local tastes. The north is city of Chiangmai. Most of people in Chiangmai are vegetarians. So they didn’t eat La-tiang food because La-tiang includes pork. In the northeast region, there have pork, chicken, and so on. So people based in northeast region serve La-tiang as much as possible. In south, it was including the Gulf of Thailand also known as fishing area. There produce large-scale production of fish sauce, one of the important ingredients for Thai cooking. Central of Thailand, is the home of the famous floating river market west of Bangkok. Many great rivers converge in this delta; making it a fertile plain for rice growing. In central region food is hot, salty, sweet and sour. So La-tiang snack are not always serve at there. Different regions have their different ways to prepared Thai food including La-tiang. La-tiang not only serves in Thailand, it also can found in other country. People in Thailand bring it to all over the world.

          Beside that, La-tiang’s recipe can search from internet or books. The food that I do is Thai food snack – La-tiang. The ingredients of La-tiang are available in all the places and easy to find. Especially onion, peanut, sugar, garlic, and peppercorns are available for housewife because they need these ingredients to prepare the dishes. Other ingredients that I need to buy are pork, shrimp, chili peppers, coriander leaves, fish sauce, and duck eggs. These ingredients no need use too much money to buy. The budgets of ingredients are very low same as online recipe. It also no need take too much time to prepare this dishes if you’re very clear about this dishes. 

Reference Lists:

http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaifoodandculture/a/foodculture.htm
http://www.aswetravel.com/understanding-thai-food-culture/
http://www.templeofthai.com/cooking/thai-cuisine.php
http://thaifood.about.com/od/introtothaicooking/a/regionalcooking.htm