Posts Tagged ‘thai food’

At Rachada Thai Cuisine, we’re very proud to receive the Daily News 2009 Readers’ Choice Award for favorite Asian cuisine.

We work hard to please our customers with delicious Thai food at an affordable value. We truly appreciate this recognition by you, our customers. Recognition that we’re doing a good job!

The most important vote we can hope to receive is the smile we try to put on our customers’ faces when they enjoy our delicious Thai food.

And it means so much to us when our customers speak up and let us know how we’re doing.

Many thanks to the Daily News and our customers for this recognition. We proudly display the award on our wall in the restaurant. Read the rest of this entry »

What would Thai cuisine be without Thai noodles? One of our very favorite pan fried noodle dishes at Rachada Thai Cuisine is Gai Kua.

Gai Kua is not quite as familiar to many Americans as Pad Thai, and of course we serve a great Pad Thai at Rachada Thai Cuisine. But a little variety is the spice of life, and we’d like to suggest you give Gai Kua noodles a taste if you’d like to try something delicious and different next time you’re out for a Thai noodle fix.

Gai Kua noodles are made with flat, wide rice noodles perfectly stir fried with with egg, green onion, and bean sprouts, and usually includes chicken for the meat. If you’d like to substitute pork or tofu, just ask.

The different twist is the egg, subtly mixed in the stir fry for a unique flavor. By the way, Kai means “egg” in Thai.
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Eggplant Salad with Grilled Shrimp is a wonderfully delicious Thai salad and perfectly refreshing for the summer season.
The grilled Chinese eggplant are succulent and sweet and the grilled shrimp are fresh and delicious. We butterfly the shrimp before they go on the grill which gives the shrimp just a touch of crunch, the perfect preparation for this special salad.

The warm grilled shrimp and eggplant make the perfect combination with the cold, crisp salad which includes fresh lettuce, carrots and purple cabbage.

Served with a lime juice based salad dressing, the combination of Thai spices and herbs gives this dish a tasty and tangy kick that just bursts with flavor.

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The wonderful variety of seafood dishes brings a culinary distinction to Thai cuisine.  The Southern region of Thailand is famous for the rich abundance of fresh seafood found in the surrounding waters. Fish, prawns, lobsters, crab, squid, scallops, clams and mussels are frequently used in many of the main dishes. Thai Mussels in Clay Pot is one of our very special seafood dishes at Rachada Thai Cuisine.

We steam the freshest and tastiest New Zealand Green Mussels in a broth of Thai herbs including Thai sweet basil, lemongrass and galanga (a ginger like root).

You’ll love these fresh mussels. And the tangy seafood broth is a sumptuous soup by itself. You’ll want to finish every last drop.
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Thai Fried Ice Cream is another favorite dessert at Rachada Thai Cuisine. Along with our Thai Fried Bananas, Fried Ice cream is one of the frequent dessert requests, especially popular with the kids.

We start with our rich and creamy premium vanilla ice cream, dipped in a delicate batter, and quickly deep-fried to a golden brown.

Now that’s a good trick, don’t you think? A fried crispy-crunch on the outside with a cold and creamy ice cream on the inside.
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Don’t forget the delectable desserts at Rachada Thai Cuisine! We spend a lot of time showing off our wonderful Thai dishes including our Thai curries, fish, and noodle soups, but we can’t ignore the wonderful and distinctly Thai sweets and desserts.

Our customers tell us the Fried Bananas with Ice Cream is absolutely scrumptious.

Fresh bananas, coated in a delicate batter and fried until crisp on the outside. Inside, the banana is soft, sweet and warm, it melts in your mouth.

Served with a rich vanilla ice cream and drizzled with caramel.
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Ginger Salmon is a favorite at Rachada Thai Cuisine in Moorpark.  Featured on our specials menu, this delicious salmon dish is very popular at our restaurant.

We start with the freshest salmon, grilled to perfection. Our Ginger Salmon is always sweet and succulent, it will melt in your mouth.

Made with a mix of fresh vegetables including carrots, onions, zucchini squash, snow peas, and bean sprouts.

The vegetables are sauteed just right, with the right amount of crunch, never soggy or mushy.

Prepared in a tangy ginger sauce, this wonderful salmon dish will delight your taste buds. Read the rest of this entry »

Thai food is such a great adventure because there is always something different to try on the menu. If you’re not familiar with the many varieties of Thai noodle soups you’re in for a special treat. We’d like to introduce you to Thai Boat Noodles, one of our very favorite Thai noodle soups.

For those that grew up in Thailand, Thai Boat Noodles (Kew teuw leur) is a special comfort food that reminds you of home. This is a very popular dish that you’ll see everywhere on the streets of Thailand available from the street vendors.

Thai Boat Noodles is a satisfying and hearty soup with an intense brown broth, beef balls, slices of beef and plenty of rice noodles. The flavors bring out the classic Thai balance of spice, sour, sweet, and salt.

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Central Region of Thailand - Chao Phraya River

The central region of Thailand, considered the traditional heartland of the country, is the source of some of Thailand’s best known dishes.

The Chao Phraya river runs through the middle of the central plain as it winds it’s way down through Bangkok and out into the Gulf of Thailand. The earliest style of cooking in this area, dating back to the ancient capital of Sukhothai, was a simpler form based on the rice that grows so abundantly all through the region as well as the fresh fish and native spices including garlic, salt and black pepper. Read the rest of this entry »

Thai Food For Thought – The Philosophy of Thai Cooking

You may be surprised to know there is actually a philosophy behind Thai cooking, one of the world’s truly magnificent cuisines. Perhaps you are saying to yourself “I enjoy eating great Thai food, but I don’t think about what makes Thai food so wonderful”. Well, just in case you might be wondering, let’s take a moment and talk about some of the principals and traditions behind great Thai cooking. Then let’s go out and enjoy a great Thai meal.

The underlying foundation of Thai cuisine derives from the early Chinese cooking influence that date backs as early as the 10th century. This cooking tradition establishes a relationship between five fundamental tastes: bitter, sweet, sour, salty and spicy. Achieving a satisfying and exciting taste experience is accomplished by combining flavors from these five basic taste categories. Read the rest of this entry »