Maing Kam

Maing Kam is one kind of munchies in Thailand. It's a munchies of central region of Thailand. The most important of this dish is "piper samentosum"

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Pharmacological effect of piper samentosun are Anti-agglutination of red cells, Ati-bacterial, Lower blood sugar and Compression reduces the small intestine.

Properties are hight vitamin A and Antioxidants help to carminative.

Thai prople like this kind of vegetable and we use it for our munchies that we called "Maing Kam". There are a lot of herb in this menu. It's great for your health.

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In this dish  we eat with lime, peanut, chili, dry shrimp, ginger, shallot, roast coconut and the sauce.

Kaffir lime

Do you know Kaffir lime ? In Thai food, we use Kaffir lime in many dish because we like their smell and their properties. Kaffir lime skin is one of spices mixed in chilli paste for Kaeng Phed and Phad Phed, and in Nam Prik.

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Kaffir lime juice is sour and used to reduce savory of meat. It is actually mixed in fermented fish paste, Kaeng Som and Kaeng Tay Po. Chopped Kaffir lime leaves are used to reduce meat smell and season Kaeng Phed, Chu Chee Pla, Kaeng Tom Som, Tom Yum, Hua Mok , Tam Kanoon, Khao Yam and Etc.


Medical application

-They can help with carminative and expectorant

Moringa

Moringa is a herb that has properties in many part of them such as root, shell, leave, flower and pods.

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Properties

Pods - cooked meals help the flue when the season change

Bark - help about carminative.

Root - help about edema and pain.





Moringa seed kernel. Use in a good cough. Fresh leaves have a mild laxative effect, calcium, vitamin C, minerals and antioxidants high. the meat in the seeds. And fresh leave on a regular basis can increase the body immunity.

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I love this kind of soup so much and it helps me when I got  flue after the season change.

Galangal

I think your guys have ever tried Thai food. The most of Thai food usually use chili paste. We have so many kind of chili paste for a different kind of dish. Mostly in every chili pate that we have, we have so many kind of herb in it. One of the most popular is "Galangal"

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Properties of Galangal are :

1. To cure flatulence, flatulent and carminative

2. Resolve food poisoning.

3. A cure hives

  

Quantitative methods use.

1. Treatment of flatulence, flatulent, carminative, have diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain and dysentery.

       - Use the fresh galangal rhizome length 1-1 1/2 inch  make it be delicate then add limewater . Drink 1/2 cup at a time and dink 3 times a day after meal.

2. Treatment of urticaria

       - The old root, fresh galangal, make it be delicate then add rice whisky just it wet. Use both meat and water paint the hives are often until it better.

Lomon grass

As you know in thai food we have many kind of herbs in our dish. One of the most popular is lemon grass. It has a good smell and good taste. It give us a medicinal effect for your liver, pancreas and kidney.
But don't you know that it gives more than that.

lemon grass

Noah said in her blog about lemon grass " The most impressive properties of lemon grass is its ability to reduce your over all blood cholesterol. Lower cholesterol means good blood circulation,lower blood pressure, healthy heart and prevents the risk of many diseases such as stoke and heart attack. Many lemon grass products are being promoted as cholesterol reducer."

This is my new information about lemon grass and it's great to know because I really like  lemon grass when it's in my dish. Now I know that I can reduce my blood cholesterol by lemon grass.

smell welcome

When we talk about vegetable, what do you how it's look like ?  What color of it ? or event What smell of it? What do you think? 

Vegetable that I want to introduce your guys today is Parkia speciosa or Thai call Sa-tor.

Sa-tor have many properties such as it can help blood pressure to be normal. It has affect to the proliferation of cell, Inhibits to growth of the bacteria prevented illness and stop fungi to growth too and they help the red blood cell to crowd. They have effect on the compression of the intestine. Thai people in the south of the country alway use Sa-tor for their food like Sa-tor-pad-kung.

Good food always come with something that not normal like others for Sa-tor is the same. They come with the strong smell. Somebody doesn't like this kind of vegetable because of their smell. I have some tips to help with this problem. 1. after you eat this menu you should brush your teeth. 2. eat small eggplant like 3-4 piece 

Hope your guys will enjoy with Sa-tor.  

    

Cha-om

Cha-om is one kind of vegetables that can find easily inThailand. Cha-om is a general name that Thai people call it, but the name in english is Acacia Pennata. Properties of Cha-om is, it can help you to balance the heat in your  body and help you to reduce gassiness in your stomach. It also has  contains, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, Iron, vitamin A, vitamin B and vitamin C.

Thai people have many kind of menu for this vegetable. The most popular and you can find in san Francisco is Keang-Som-Cha-Om-Kai.

This menu is easy and delicious or some people steam and eat with chili paste.

nam-prik-ka-pi

main dish but name is like dessert

There are many dish of Thai food that the name of it likes dessert. Today I will present the example of one dish that is  cha-nom-geen-nam-gneaw.  Dessert in Thai we call  cha-nom but we have some main dish that call cha-nom too just like this dish. Geen in Thai, it's mean china, but it can't prefer that this dish may be come from chinese even it looks like pho but it's not. There are many kind of cha-nom-geen in Thai but for today I prefer cha-nom-geen-nam-gneaw.

Cha-nom-geen-nam-gneaw has a special is flower of red silk cottontree that we use in this dish. I think you guys haven't heart this kind of tree before because first time that I heard I don't think it can be an ingredient. We use it in dry. Do you know the flower of red silk cottontree has good value. It helps analgesic poisoning cure fever.


We don't eat just the noodle and the soup, but we always eat with few kind of vegetables that have a different value .

 We eat with cilantro which is help to dissolve phlegm and cure measles or rash.
Another one is green onion which is help maintain heart and reduce fat in blood.

Let's try this dish. It's  really good.