Where to shop for Asian grocery around Allen
So, you have had Thai food for a while. It’s one of your family’s favorite Asian cuisine. Cooking thai food at home in a special occasion sounds fun. You are also bored with that instant sauce. You want to have more control over the taste of your own food. Recipets or how-to cook books for Thai food are not difficult to find these days. You can google it and thousands, if not millions, pages will probably show up in seconds. Youtube is another good resource that you definitely can find step-by-step Thai cooking video clip....
read more5 Tips for your first visit to Thai restaurant
Your interest began when you heard day after day about a great Thai restaurant from your neighbor, but you were a little scared. Thai food is spicy and uses different flavors and isn’t quite anything you or your family is used to. Will your family even like it? Is it going to burn your mouth? I totally understand how you feel, I had the same feeling when I tried Mexican food for the first time three years ago. There have been countless people who I’ve come across that wished they could have tried Thai food earlier, they...
read moreGluten and Thai food
One question was raised late Saturday while I was working with Allison, our new waitress. We were talking about Thai food and I was explaining to her how most our entrees were made. After quietly listening to me, the first question she asked is whether or not we could prepare our dishes without the use of gluten. Well, I had to be honest with her that I had no clue if we could prepare them completely without gluten. My knowledge about Gluten was minimal, at best. She explained to me that her 2 year old son was severely allergic to Gluten....
read moreHow It All Began..
Regardless of what I will write or show you all in the future, it would not be quite complete if I never told you how it all began. Before becoming an owner of Thai Café, I had been a structural engineer for almost 5 years. Basically, I’ve designed bridges and buildings (simply, my job to is to make sure a building stays up, and will never come down). I came to the US in August of 2002 for my masters degree. My first three years in US were divided in half, between studying and working in a Thai restaurant near campus. I worked in my...
read moreIntroduction to Thai Cafe blog!
Hello! I’ve wanted to write a blog showcasing Thai Cafe but business has been so good that I have never have a had a good chance, until now! I’m sure you can imagine that owning a restaurant along side with being a structural engineer could be quite a juggling act. When we started, I thought I would write a blog so I can share the story of Thai Cafe with you. Waiting for the right moment to start blogging, a year and a half went by so fast. Now I have even more stories to tell, a lot more pictures to show and plenty of things to...
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