Beyond pad thai: recipes from the ‘foreign-faced girl with the heart of a Thai’

Many Thai menus outside Thailand are predictable: they offer fish cakes, shrimp cakes, green papaya salad, curry (red, green or yellow, cooked with whatever protein you want as long as it is chicken, beef or fish), pad thai, tom yum soup and beef or seafood salad.Of course, there is a lot more to Thai food than the handful of dishes most of us can name, as Kay Plunkett-Hogge shows in her book, Baan – Recipes and stories from my Thai home (2019). The London-based cook­book author and broadcaster…