Sawaddee Ka! welcome to Hot Thai Kitchen so last week I showed you how to make a
popular dim sum dish lo bak go or turnip cakes today I want to show you how Thai
people actually eat turnip cakes we make them too but we don't eat it in the same
way that you might eat it at dim sum we turn it into basically a stir fry and we
call it "kanom pakkaad," so the name of this dish is a little bit misleading
because "kanom" means either snack or dessert, neither of which this thing is
and "pakkaad" means lettuce, but it's actually short for "hua pakkaad" which
then means daikon radish, however nobody in real life calls daikon radish "hua pakkaad,"
everybody calls it "hua chai tao" so it's just really weird, like when I first
became aware of this dish when I was little, it is completely not
what I thought it was based on the name so it's kind of an interesting fact
there but anyway let's just all accept that and I'll show you it's super easy
once you know how to make the lo bak go which I'll link to that video right here
the rest is such a breeze let's get started so I've got some lo bak go here
and now if you saw my previous video and wondered how my lo bak go went from being
a circle to this shape it's because this is a separate one that I made and it's
chilled and I like to start with it chilled because it's easy to cut okay so
I'm gonna just cut this into about an inch cube each piece should be maybe one
or two bites and yeah if it's not cold and it can be really soft and difficult
to maneuver so I think about this is a good size and this recipe is great for
those of you who are used to eating a lo bak go the Cantonese way and you want
to do something different with it okay so that's that let me introduce you to
the few other ingredients that we need so for this you're gonna need some
garlic chives so I probably have too much here for each serving and I like to
make this one serving at a time and it's super fast
you can make a few servings really quickly and I want to cut this into
about two inch pieces I like to remove the bottom because it's a little tougher
and then just pieces like that I'm gonna add this to my bean sprouts bowl here
and if you're looking at this and go oh bean sprouts and garlic chives that
looks like vegetables that go into Pad Thai, and hey what do you know this
dish is often sold at vendors that sell Pad Thai as well so a lot of times you
see you know it'll say Pad Thai and Kanom Pakkaad together in one place because
they share a lot of similar ingredients okay so those are all the only
vegetables that you need and then apart from that you will need an egg
which again overlaps with pad thai and you're gonna need a little bit of sauce
and the sauce is really simple I've got some soy sauce here and to this I'm
gonna add some sweet soy sauce so sweet soy sauce is basically think of it like
molasses mixed with soy sauce very sweet syrupy and thick you can use the
Indonesian ABC kecap manis instead this is the Thai one and they both
work fine I have tried it and you just need a little bit there you go and
here's a trick I oiled my spoon so that it all slides out beautifully so you don't
lose half your sauce to the spoon and I'm gonna give this a stir a little bit
and this just helps when you go to cook it otherwise the the thick soy sauce
will just kind of stick to the glass bowl and it won't come out when you go
to pour it that's it believe it or not that is all you need to make Kanom Pakkaad
all right let's get cooking
S o you want to start out with either a nonstick
pan so a nonstick skillet is totally fine or a wok that is well seasoned
because these kanom pakkaad stick to things that are not nonstick
add a little bit of oil
and then I'm gonna start by searing
heat's probably a little high you don't want it's too hot because you
want to give these things time to brown and heat up because these are cold also
so that's another thing if you're starting with cold lo bak go you want to
make sure the heat is relatively low so it has time to brown and to heat up all
the way through before they burn okay and this stove does not do low heat very
well it's super powerful so nice and brown like that that one might be a
little too brown but you know you get the idea now if you have the patience
you can sit there and brown all four sides
you know what that is good enough for me
most of these are brown goes very quick
so pay attention here your egg right in the middle okay and then you're gonna
break the yolk and then I'm gonna bring some of these pieces on top of the eggs
so that it gets mingled with the eggs
it's another reason why you want a nonstick pan
because then the egg will stick you let it set for about halfway
and then you toss it around so that you're basically scrambling the eggs
into the lo bak go.
Woohoo!
Can turn the heat a little higher now and then the
vegetables go in
and the sauce goes in and I like to put it on the vegetables
because the vegetables are the things that don't have any flavor at this point
and then you just toss, toss, toss, toss until the sauce is completely dry
and I don't like to overcook the vegetables too much because I like the bean sprouts
to still be nice and crispy but if you like bean sprouts a little softer
you can take longer. And that's it! it's done, it's done, done, done.
And I know that's like... what?? so fast?! But that's it!
it's street food, it's fast food, and it's delicious.
Look at this!
and this is sort of like unseen Thailand kind of thing cuz I think a lot of
people they go to Thailand and they're looking for pad thai and sometimes that
vendor that you're buying from might also have this on the menu but you
didn't know! but now you know if you see a pad thai vendor and they've got weird
cubes cooking alongside the noodles now you know what that is okay so this is
rich and salty and a little bit sweet so what you need to go with it is something
tart and spicy so a lot of people will make a dipping sauce that's quite
vinegary what I actually like to do is serve this with sriracha which is really
its heart and vinegary and spicy and I think it goes perfectly together you
could do if you find that this is a little too hot you could mix this with a
little bit of sweet chili sauce and thin it out a little bit that way as well or
if you buy a Thai sriracha that tends to be milder and a little sweeter that
works really well too so and I just go like this oh yeah and that is all I need
personally you can add a little roasted chili flakes if you want just the heat
extra heat without the extra sauce if you want you can serve it with a lik
extra lime on the side for some tartness and this is something that I don't think
people who do in Thailand but I think it works quite well if you like peanuts put
some roasted peanuts on there it adds a little extra crunch and it's also
something people put on pad thai so that's an option for you just putting it
out there but for me this is all I need
this guy right here oh and it's nice and soft
get some egg
mmm there's no nothing else that smells quite like this
oh I love love love the flavor of the beans sprouts and the garlic chives and
the lo bak go together and the texture too, the lo bak go is soft and almost creamy
and then you've got the crunchiness from the vegetables and the flavor - you've
got salty umami and then you got that tart chilli sauce to go with it I mean
it's just an incredible incredible addition it doesn't really look like
much and it's really simple I have to caveat this with with this though when
you are in Thailand and you buy this dish from a street vendor the turnip cakes
are not gonna be luxurious turnip cake with dry scallops and all those
things that I put in, a lot of times it'll be plain like some people don't
put anything in it it's just the turnips, but some people might just put a little
bit of shiitake mushrooms some dried shrimp but definitely not the scallops
and maybe the Chinese sausage depending on the place but if you want to
pimp it out like me make sure you check out my recipe I'll make sure
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