Would You Try Something New?

My #1 Favorite Childhood Treat

Sawaddee ka 🙏🏼

One thing I try to do with my work is help people realize there’s so much more to Thai cuisine than green curry and pad thai. I love opening people’s eyes to lesser known Thai dishes.

Sometimes, these lesser known dishes are a hard sell. Ingredients are difficult to find, the flavours a little “adventurous,” or sometimes people just don’t really get what it is.

But others are a super easy sell - they’re easy to love, easy to make, easy to understand. All I need from you is a willingness to try something less familiar.

This recipe is one of those easy sells, so all I ask from you is a little curiosity 😉. I know with 100% certainly you will love them if you try them.

Kanom Ko or “sugar dumplings”, a favourite Thai dessert from my childhood, are soft and chewy dumplings filled with crunchy, heavenly palm sugar. They’re incredible, and here’s the story.

They were a regular part of my diet as a kid growing up in Hat Yai and they brought me so much joy. But when I left my hometown at the age of 12, I never saw them again. I didn’t know it then, but kanom ko were local to the South. Almost nobody in Bangkok knows them. For whatever reason I never thought to make them myself…until now!

So here’s a piece of my childhood, and a rare part of Southern Thai food culture. I hope you will try them, because I know you will love them. ❤️