Thai Food and Cooking

What's Cooking This Week? Spaghetti Squash Pad Thai & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredient's I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

Eat Noodles...Without the Noodles: A Tale of Two Squashes

Oh my gosh, you guys. Up until last week, I never knew my life was missing something. I've found a new love; a real love. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy and fills me with...joy. It's really the only thing that makes sense anymore. It's spaghetti squash. I first fell in love with it when I used it ... More >>

What's Cooking This Week? Peanut Chicken Lettuce Wraps & More

I love cooking for my fiancé and me, but most of the time, cooking for two proves to be difficult. If I don't make a plan, I end up running around in circles at the grocery store and wasting half the ingredients I've bought (and I hate wasting food). Enter What's Cooking This Week - my weekly meal ... More >>

Enjoying Comfort Food, Thai-Style, at Njoy Thai

Tucked into the tiny space that once housed Fabio's -- long known as a purveyor of both fresh pasta and romantic dinners before it moved to West Alabama -- is newcomer Njoy Thai, the subject of this week's cafe review. There's no longer fresh pasta to be found here, as the family-run restaurant spec ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 3, John Sikhattana of Straits Shows Off Singaporean Food

John Sikhattana Executive Chef Straits Asian Bistro 800 West Sam Houston Parkway North 713-365-9922 www.straitsrestaurants.com This is the third and final part of a three-part chef chat series. Part 1 and Part 2 ran in this space over the last couple of days. Our chat with John Sikhattana this wee ... More >>

When Benadryl Won't Cut It: Common Food Allergies

I have a friend who, for whatever reason, recently grew out of her life-long food allergies to citrus, nuts, berries and shellfish. Realizing this, she immediately went to a Thai restaurant and had shrimp Pad Thai, something she'd previously been unable to eat due to life-threatening allergies to a ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 2: Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of Blu

Yesterday, we chatted with Blu's Executive Chef Jett Hurapan about his love of racing cars, and his background as a corporate chef opening restaurants in New York City. Today, he tells us what it's like working with his pastry chef wife, what to expect from his food at Blu, and the foods that bring ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Chef Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of Blu Loves Race Car Driving

Executive Chef Junnajet "Jett" Hurapan of the new Blu Restaurant and Lounge (2248 Texas Dr; www.blusugarland.com) in Sugar Land's Town Square, couldn't stop smiling when I was taking pictures of him in the kitchen. "In New York, the photographers didn't want me to smile," he says, but for me he smil ... More >>

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What's Cooking This Week?

With last week's menu, I was lower-carb and lovin' it. Since I have a busy week ahead, my main goal this time around is quick and easy (but still healthy!) meals. Here's what I'm cooking: Spicy Chicken Pita w/ Sweet & Tangy Slaw Thai-Style Chicken Lettuce Wraps Linguini w/ Tuna Puttanesca Med ... More >>

First Look at Shepherd Park Draught House

Photo by Ken SheppardTry the Korean short rib tacos...​On the end of an unassuming strip mall in Independence Heights lies Shepherd Park Draught House, the latest venture of Ken Bridge, owner of the Delicious Concepts restaurant group which also operates Pink's Pizza, Dragon Bowl and Lola. As ... More >>

Ingredient of the Week: Thai Basil

Photo by John SuhThai basil in our garden​A few weeks ago, we featured Genovese basil, a staple of Italian cuisine, as the Ingredient of the Week. This week, we're highlighting Thai basil, a key ingredient in not just Thai food but many other southeast Asian dishes. What is it? Native to so ... More >>

Bangkok Soft-Shell Crabs at Nidda Thai Cuisine

​Geri Maria Harris's recent post on Houston's Top 5 Thai Restaurants definitely included one of my favorites: Nidda. Geri named stir-fried eggplant and the Nidda Shrimp as standout dishes; to that list I would add the Bangkok Soft-Shell Crabs. I'm always seeking out my favorite crustacean ... More >>

Shiftwork Bites: Texas Thai Curry

​Through the course of Shiftwork Bites, I've been making a conscious effort to build a semi-respectable pantry at work. Ultimately, I'd love to have one from which I might actually theoretically be able to prepare full meals with little or nothing in the way of extra ingredients brought in. Ob ... More >>

Celebrate International Hot & Spicy Food Day This Weekend

How better to celebrate International Hot & Spicy Food Day than with chicken and joy?​Did you know that Sunday, January 16, is International Hot & Spicy Food Day? Look at it this way: It's definitely not the stupidest of the arbitrary food days/months (I mean, January 16 is also National Fig N ... More >>

Hot Pot at Thai Spice, For When Winter Returns

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttDig in.​So, it's not cold and drizzly outside anymore. At least for now. When that wonderous Seattle-esque weather returns, I'll be returning to Thai Spice (8282 Bellaire Boulevard) for more hot pot -- and I won't be ordering chicken this time. The Thai Spice Expre ... More >>

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Honduras in Houston

A too-small dining scene gets a welcome addition.

Top Five '90s Food Trends

​ We're not really nostalgic for any of these food items--perhaps it hasn't been long enough yet? What 1990s foods do you remember consuming in great quantities (that you're willing to admit)? 5. Fat-Free/Diet Snack Foods All of that playing around in the laboratory led to some pretty sketc ... More >>

Openings and Closings

Wondering what this place is? Keep reading...​A commenter on last week's restaurant roundup wondered if it was true that Brazaviva Churrascaria had closed down. Indeed, the steakhouse at 11681 Westheimer is now closed, as a commenter noted, for non-payment of rent. A sad fate for what we under ... More >>

Healthy Alternatives: Mongo's Bowl

​Mongo's Mongolian Fire Pit (11200 Broadway Street, Ste 400, Pearland) is one of our favorite dining establishments in the relatively new outdoor mall that is known as the Pearland Town Center, despite its location on the outskirts of town. Though there isn't anything particularly original abo ... More >>

Top 10 Restaurants In The East End

Photo by frankienoseThe indescribable Orange Show.​My great-grandmother lived in the same little house off Navigation, home to dozens of kids and family gatherings over the decades, until the day she died. Although she never once spoke a word of English, she was clever and sly; she could under ... More >>

The Appeal of Banana Leaf

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttStir-fried egg noodles with seafood: a crowd pleaser.​It's been a little over six months since we reviewed Banana Leaf (9889 Bellaire Boulevard, Suite 311) -- the cozy outpost of Malaysian cuisine in New Chinatown -- and it occurred to us over the weekend that we ha ... More >>

New Thai Joint Opens on Bangkokheimer

​Thai Bistro, the popular Houston Thai restaurant located at 3241 Southwest Freeway, recently opened a new location at 11660 Westheimer, the former location of Thyme Table Café. The Houston Chronicle's Alison Cook loved Thyme Table for reasons I never understood. I tried it and found it too b ... More >>

Jinxed Restaurant Locations of the Decade

​Is there really such a thing as a jinxed restaurant location? Some say it is just a myth. But we beg to differ. In July, Eating Our Words featured its first list of jinxed restaurant locations. We are happy to see that some of these restaurants have beaten the curse. Feast even made it into B ... More >>

Seabrook Seafood Stores Are Back

Photos by Robb Walsh​Beeline snapper was $4 a pound and American red snapper was $6 a pound at the dockside seafood markets in Seabrook a few days ago. Big gulf shrimp were $3.95 a pound -- cheaper if you bought five pounds or more. The dock for Gulf shrimp boats in Seabrook is still functioni ... More >>

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Openings and Closings

It wasn't a good week to be an Asian restaurant in Houston. Japanese, Chinese and Thai -- none were exempt from the executioner as three well-known restaurants closed around town. Café le Jadeite (1952 West Gray), the eye-catching Chinese restaurant in River Oaks, closed out the month of May by cl ... More >>

Khun Kay Thai Café

Nidda Thai's Chu Chee Eggplant

CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL

Thai Sticks

What a Duck

The Golden Room

Best Thai Restaurant

Man Eating Mermaid

Erawan Authentic Thai Cuisine

1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish...

"Deep-fried madness" delights the red-hot sushi crowd at Blue Fish House

The Fate of Yates

Plus: Leaf Them Alone, Thais to Houston, Culture Stock

Thai One On

Thai Gourmet

The Apple Martini Tour

In search of the trendy

Best Thai Restaurant

Taste of Thai

Using Her Noodle

Liberty's Annie Wong can negotiate a tasty truce among even the most warring ingredients

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Hobbit's New Hole

Those Boys from Brazil

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Winning Combinations

Fusion cuisine? A bad idea. Except at Dacapo's.

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Diner's Notebook

Restaurant-Go-Round

Diner's Notebook

Restaurant Stew

Lotsa Pasta

Just emigrated from New Orleans, Semolina's international noodles are trendy and copious -- but only intermittently scintillating