What is kalaya food

There is no pad thai or ambiguous red curry to be found here. Nok instead prepares dishes pulled from memories of cooking Southern Thai food with her mother. There are irresistibly chewy tapioca dumplings dyed indigo with butterfly pea flowers and stuffed with mushrooms and peanuts. A silky chicken curry, known as kang gai khao mun, melds garlic, shallots, lemongrass, and lots of white peppercorn with coconut milk and shrimp paste. Posted by Kalaya Philadelphia on Monday, June 15, Sponsored Honor those who served, and remember why by.

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The fish cakes are hardly the sexiest item on the menu, but they may also be one of my favorites. The crisp brown rounds of pureed fish blended with coconut milk, fish sauce, and curry paste are so soft inside and full of flavor, they have the crunchy-creamy texture and magnetic savor of a great Thai latke. Another seafood dish not to miss, meanwhile, is the goong aob woon sen , a trio of huge shrimp steamed in a covered pan over Chinese celery and glass noodles splashed with gluten-free soy and oyster sauce.

The noodles are like silken threads. This , along with the wok-fried pork in shrimp paste, is one of the few milder dishes here. Then again, so does the stir-fried cabbage, a side dish so deceptively simple — even frumpy — I could hardly believe how amazingly sweet they were, the snappy leaves singed by the smoky breath of a hot wok.

Budu magic and the hands of a master Thai chef are too powerful to resist. Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo. Link Icon. Kalaya review: The thrill of Southern Thai food rarely tasted in Philly. Ladies and gentlemen: Hummus Kalaya. Rating: 5. That looks soooo good! Looks good. Now you have been posting long enough to know that you MUST post recipes of delicious looking food you made!!

I looks to die for! Man that looks really good! Aren't we supposed to take pics from magazines? Or websites?