Chiang Mai Curry Noodles is a mild curry noodle soup with very tender beef brisket, yellow noodle, shallots, coriander, chilli oil, pickled mustard greens topped with crispy fried noodles. I wanted to make this for quite some time but busy schedule always gets on its way until now.
A while back we dined in at Pok Pok Thai and I really liked one of their noodle dishes that we ordered, I so liked it I was itching to make it at home. The dish is called Chiang-Mai Curried Noodles with Beef which is basically a mild curry noodle soup with very tender beef brisket, yellow noodle, shallots, coriander, chilli oil, pickled mustard greens topped with crispy fried noodles. I wanted to make this for quite some time but busy schedule always gets on its way until now.
I did not ask for the ingredients or even how it is made I just relied again on my taste buds as well as what was indicated on their menu. I had tried something nearly similar before but not on a noodle soup dish so I think I can wildly guess and recreate a nearly similar thing at home. For me it’s resembles a laksa which has a beefy taste, mildly spiced but with some kick with the help of chilli oil, its creamy, mildly sweet, definitely delicious.
In Thailand this dish is called Khao Soi and this types of dish is popular in the Northern region on Thailand mainly because of its Burmese influence. The name means “cut rice” in Thai but this dish does not use any rice noodle at all, but from where it came from rice noodles was the commonly used one. In Northern Thailand this dish is usually made with two different noodle preparation one is deep-fried egg noodles and one is boiled egg noodles, it is then served with pickled mustard greens, shallots, lime and ground chillies fried in oil. Heavily influenced with the Chinese Muslim cuisine so you will not expect any pork variation but it is commonly served with served with chicken or beef.
Today I will be missing some ingredients like the pickled mustard greens and the crispy noodles but what important is that I recreated it to nearly similar flavour and I liked them.
Chiang Mai Curry Noodles is a mild curry noodle soup with very tender beef brisket, yellow noodle, shallots, coriander, chilli oil, pickled mustard greens topped with crispy fried noodles. I wanted to make this for quite some time but busy schedule always gets on its way until now.
Ingredients
Scale
Curry Noodle Soup
500g fresh egg noodles
750 g beef brisket, cubed
2/3 cupred curry paste, adjust this to how spicy you want it
400 ml coconut milk
200 ml coconut cream
2 cups beef stock
3 cups water
1 tbsp palm sugar
2 tbsp soy sauce
3 shallots, thinly sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced
fish sauce
chilli oil
oil
Garnishes
cilantro
shallots
reserved mustard greens
limes
Instructions
In a bowl add beef and 1/3 cup of the red curry paste, mix well and let it marinate for 30 minutes.
Prepare a large pot, add oil then sauté shallots and garlic.
Add the marinated beef then stir fry until really fragrant.
Add the remaining curry paste then stir fry for 2 minutes.
Pour coconut milk, beef stock and water, bring to a boil and simmer in low heat for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until beef is tender. Add more water if required.
Mix half of the coconut cream into the soup, season with palm sugar, soy sauce and fish sauce. Turn heat off.
Cook fresh egg noodles according to packet instructions then place in serving bowls. Fill bowls with soup, add beef then garnish with cilantro, shallots, reserved mustard greens and limes. Add 2 tsp of chilli oil on top of each bowl, you can also scoop a tablespoon of coconut cream on each bowl if they want it creamier.
I love Khao Soi. First tried it in Chat Thai Restaurant in Sydney and I was blown away. It is comforting, bold, a bit spicy, flavourful. Everything you wish for in a bowl of curry noodle soup.
….The name means “cut rice” in Thai but this dish does not use any rice noodle at all, but from where it came from rice noodles was the commonly used one… >>> I have no idea why many foreigners think like this. My guess is that they heard it from some Thai who who try to explain the name of the dish, but they (those Thai) were wrong. That’s right “Khao (ข้าว)” means rice in Thai and “Soi (ซอย)”, in verbal form, means to cut. But “Khao Soi (ข้าวซอย)” does not derived from central or Lanna (northern) Thai words. Like you said, this dish has nothing to do with rice, so it makes no sense that the name of the dish would come from 2 words (which has nothing to do with the dish at all) combined. In fact the name of the dish comes from a Burmese word roughly pronouced “Khaoswea” which they used to call a type of their noodle.
Chiang Mai Curry Noodles
That looks gorgeous. I love curry, and I love Thai. Bet I would love this a lot!
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I love Khao Soi. First tried it in Chat Thai Restaurant in Sydney and I was blown away. It is comforting, bold, a bit spicy, flavourful. Everything you wish for in a bowl of curry noodle soup.
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….The name means “cut rice” in Thai but this dish does not use any rice noodle at all, but from where it came from rice noodles was the commonly used one… >>> I have no idea why many foreigners think like this. My guess is that they heard it from some Thai who who try to explain the name of the dish, but they (those Thai) were wrong. That’s right “Khao (ข้าว)” means rice in Thai and “Soi (ซอย)”, in verbal form, means to cut. But “Khao Soi (ข้าวซอย)” does not derived from central or Lanna (northern) Thai words. Like you said, this dish has nothing to do with rice, so it makes no sense that the name of the dish would come from 2 words (which has nothing to do with the dish at all) combined. In fact the name of the dish comes from a Burmese word roughly pronouced “Khaoswea” which they used to call a type of their noodle.