Vegan Thai Food Journal

I have spent more years than I care to count cooking and eating my way through Thai cuisine. When I first went vegan, I worried I would have to say goodbye to the sticky-sweet tamarind tang of pad thai and the coconut cream richness of massaman curry. That fear turned out to be entirely wrong. Thai cooking, at its core, relies on a balance of salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy elements that come from plants. Fish sauce and shrimp paste are common, yes, but they are not es