Using an iPhone & iPad in Thailand Tips, App Reviews and News for the iPhone and iPad by Richard Barrow

Easy Thai Recipes

"Thai Easy Cuisines" offers Thai recipes including appetizers, main dishes, desserts, and drinks on your iPhone making it easier to find the ingredients when you are at the supermarket.

There are quite a few books and videos out to help people cook Thai food. But, they are not always practical to use in the kitchen. Plus, with so many recipes it is sometimes difficult to choose what to eat. That is where Thai Easy Cuisines for the iPhone becomes your best friend in the kitchen.  The home screen gives you a picture menu of 64 dishes which includes desserts and drinks. Each dish has a tag so you can make it easier by just listing soups, desserts, vegetarian, curries etc.  Click on the picture and you will get the list of ingredients and instructions. If you still cannot decide then you can click on the "today" tab and the app will then choose for you a starter, main meal, dessert and a drink.

I really like the way it is all laid out. Very colourful and simple to use. A couple of extra bonuses is the help you get with the ingredients. For any of the recipes that you want to cook, you can add the ingredients to the shopping list. If you have anything on the list already then click the box. This is really great as I found myself at the supermarket many times not remembering every thing I needed to cook something. It is also nice to have the pictures of the ingredients in the shopping list. Click on the icons and you will then get a bigger picture. I had some fun playing around with this app and look forward to using it on my next shopping trip.

COMPETITION: I liked this iPhone app so much that I asked the developers for FOUR copies to give away in a competition. They kindly agreed. The app is presently being sold for $2.99 but you could get it for free if you post a comment below. On Sunday night we will enter all the names into a randomizer and the four names at the top of the list will win!