Thread: Overpowering Thai food aromas

What's your most overpowering aromas and smells from a Thai kitchen.

I'll kick off with steamed bamboo, the aroma seems to linger for days.

Prego Italian sausage and garlic

Originally Posted by YourDaddy

Prego Italian sausage and garlic

That's Thai?

You said smells from a Thai kitchen. If that's what he's cooking in a Thai kitchen then that's the aroma from a Thai kitchen.

Pla Dek. Man that pongs.

Dry cooking chilis, making it hard to breathe and see.

My missus has a fondness for homemade kimchi. Quite eye-wateringly bad. Not a chilli smell, but a "something died a few weeks ago" bad.

Worse then her pla rah, which is saying something.

^^ Not allowed in my kitchen. Ninety percent of the Thai cooking is done outside, wife prefers it that way.

Dried squid.

Banned from eating in the house.

Same as Troy. Thai grub is cooked in the outside kitchen.

dont know about the kitchen but my wife and kids started eating that esarn sausgae in the car.
no fun in an enclosed space.
made em walk home

Cook Thai food outside? Why if you have a cooker hood inside? My MiL reckons food taste better if cooked on a charcoal pot. What a load of bollix.