Homemade or store-bought curry pastes? What's the different?
Now we all know that Thai curries are everyone’s favourite dish, but there’s a myriad of ways to make ‘em. Some popular ones you may have heard of are green curry (“gaeng keow waan”), “massaman curry”, “panaeng curry” and yellow curry (“gaeng gari.”) Now, Thai curries in general can be divided into 2 categories; coconut base or water base. The choice shouldn’t be taken lightly, as the base will highly reflected in the taste and texture of the final outcome. Some coconut base curries will include green curry, red curry, yellow curry, massama curry and panaeng curry. Water base curries include sour soup curry, jungle curry and southern style yellow curry. Obviously homemade curry paste is always preferable and generally tastes...