Sometimes it seems the art of pairing wine with food is a kind of sorcery—a mysterious leather-bound book arrives to the table filled with esoteric terms and mystical names from faraway worlds, and it ...

When Anajak Thai opened in 1981, most people who walked into the Los Angeles restaurant weren’t familiar with Thai cuisine. They just thought it was spicy Chinese food, said Justin Pichetrungsi, the ...

A government campaign drove the popularity and similarity of Thai menus, but they left out an ingredient: the experiences of actual Thai people. Growing up in the American South, I was usually the ...

Pad thai is made by stir frying thin flat rice noodles in garlic, chai poh (Chinese sweet-salty preserved radish), dried shrimp and tofu, with a sauce made of fish sauce, tamarind paste and palm sugar ...