Looking at the lush photographs and reading the recipes made me  wish I lived in Canada!  I love South Asian food and Thai food in particular.  The recipes were authentic and I loved Chef Nuit spin on traditional dishes.  My family gobbled up the chicken satay skewers and deep fried shrimp fritters.  My other favorites were Nuit pad thai, grilled beef salad and lemongrass stewed chicken thighs. 
Huge depth of flavour and easy to follow recipes - would recommend and should I get to Toronto to visit relatives this restaurant will be on my list!
Thanks to Netgalley and Penguin Canada for the opportunity to receive the ARC.

If you read travel books for insight about a country, I read cook books. Weird as it seems, but I love to be in the cook's story and see how people in that country interact by food.

Thailand is a neighboring country, we shared similar climate, thus similar ingredients, way of cooking and philosophy. But of course, they have their way of cooking and specialty. Here, the author brought us to her native northern Thailand. 

Being in the North, with its poor soils, is not a point forte of this region. But sticky rice grows in abundance. Therefore I was amazed that the author add sticky rice in most of her meals. And in highland as they are, the food are more spicy and sour than the normal Thai food we can find. 

This is an interesting read to see how Northern Thais enjoying their hard but impressive life.

THis one had lots of ingredients I'd never be able to find.  I liked the photos and info, but the recipes are going to be hard in North America.  At least the middle part without specialty stores.

This book is very nice and it has lots of pictures of the dishes, people and places. Besides the recipes it also tells you stories and gives you lots of tips. the book itself is very well made and it would be a great gift for people that loves Thai cuisine. I personally only get excited about curry, and I would try some of these dishes in Thailand if I ever go there but I wouldn't make them at home because they all require way too many ingredients that I don't have at home. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

This is the Thai cookbook of my dreams. The recipes remind me so much of my favorite (now long closed) hole-in-the-wall crazy good Thai restaurant - I dream of the food I had there and now I might just have a chance of recreating some of it on my own. I own several Thai cookbooks but this is the one I'm most excited about. I'll be adding a hardcover copy of this to my personal library and giving it as gifts. Wonderful!

I don't have a lot of experience with Thai cuisine, but I love a lot of other Asian food so I wanted to give it a try. For me, I just didn't find a whole lot that appealed to me personally that I would bookmark and attempt to make. I do think that is probably more personal preference than anything. I did find the book to be beautiful and I love learning about foods from different parts of the world so I still enjoyed the book.

Apparently my reviews (and Goodreads profile) are causing people to nastily tell me that I am the funniest/most-stupid person on the planet. Life is too short without humour and YOU ARE ALL TOASTER-STRUDEL-MEAN-GIRLS. #mikedrop

When life for the entire universe and planet turns on its end and like everyone else you "have nothing to do" while your place of work is closed and you are in #COVID19 #socialisolation,  superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today. (I have played a "zillion games" of scrabble, done a "zillion crosswords" and I AM BORED!!!)

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

A journey through Northern Thailand in 120 authentic recipes with stunning location photography.

Award-winning chef, Nuit Regular, offers the distinct flavour of Northern Thai food in a stunning collection of authentic recipes, essays, and location photography. Inspired by the flavours and aromas of growing up in Northern Thailand, Nuit learned to cook in her mother's kitchen. Spending summers in an inspiring Northern Thai town with her grandmother, hunting with her dad, chasing snakes with her uncle, and cooking food with ingredients from the market or family garden, the cookbook is a reflection of Nuit's life in Thailand and her passion for cooking and sharing Thai cuisine with others.

Kiin, which means "eat" in Thai, transports readers to Northern Thailand on a journey to discover the ingredients, markets, and culture that inform all of the recipes. A Thai meal rarely has just one dish and you will have plenty of recipes to cook and share in traditional Thai-style--a table full of brightly coloured dishes that the whole family can pass around and enjoy. The recipes, including Steamed Chicken Dumplings, Rice Vermicelli with Fish Curry Soup, Red Pork on Rice, Northern Beef Curry, Green Mango Salad, and Mango Sticky Rice are a glimpse into the wonders of Northern Thai food.

This book is full of fresh, vegetable-forward cuisine that just made my mouth water.  The recipes were well written and the photos stunning. I love that the heat level can be adjusted for those of us who cannot take a lot of "burn" in their food, throat, stomach, etc. (and that I can leave the parsley and cilantro out as I am allergic - I love Thai Cinnamon Basil instead!) The mango sticky rice looks incredible - I must make that this weekend.

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I love emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🥘🥘🥘🥘🥘